It's really sad to me that we even have to talk about diversity in the fashion world today. That I would love to change. Diversity should be normal.

What is the Balmain girl? It’s a woman who knows what she wants and is going to express it

I like people who are powerful, confident, and fearless. Balmain is about an attitude. I think if Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor were alive, they would definitely be part of the Balmain crew.

When you become controversial, when you want to promote new ideas, you need to be the face of it and not be scared.

I think fashion is fashion: Sometimes you dress people that you don't know, and sometimes you dress people that you actually know.

I wish there were more young people in the big houses, but sometimes it's really hard for them to believe in the youth because they go for what's the most expected.

What I'm doing now is having people with and around me to build what other designers built before - like Pierre Balmain with Josephine Baker, Audrey Hepburn, Dalida, Brigitte Bardot.

Kanye West is inspirational. He expresses such a strong vision beyond music, beyond fashion - it's art. He sn't afraid to push boundaries and be provocative.

If you give up every time you don't achieve the immediate gain you want, you're just guaranteeing that the worst is going to happen... You can't expect an easy victory after one protest march.

You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.

My father might not have held my hand or expressed his love openly, but he taught Callie and me that we had inherent values, that we were fully formed human beings without a boy by our side.

Love Is An Act Of Valour.

Those who can't forget are worse off than those who can't remember.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it for it is a faculty of the psyche.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best.

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.