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

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.

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.

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.

....it struck her that that perhaps everyone had the ability to see themselves in others. Even in the rocks. Even in the roses.

All men who repeat a line from Shakespeare are William Shakespeare

In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.

The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.

I thought my inner voice was telling me it was time to sell my house and get rid of everything that I had. But what I was told was to just make my load lighter.

I think they thought it was very arrogant of me to write the end of my seven books series when I didn't have a publisher and no-one had heard of me

Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood.

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

For heaven's sake, all you fool speak not in the name of God, for He has his own tongue to speak!

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.