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" Paris was a melting pot. "

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" My favourite feature is my hair. It has always made me look different. It was so red when I was born that my mother thought I had blood on my head. When I was a teenager, I looked like a tomboy, but then I understood that I could be a woman who was an intelligent mix between a lady and my mannish side. "

" I was fascinated by stripes from the start. On clothing, they follow a woman's movements. "

" I hate the word 'feminine!' I mean, there is a woman and a man, and when I say 'woman,' it suggests all that is radiant, tender, fascinating, gentle, demoniac, exaggerated! 'Feminine' makes me think of somebody who is spindly and over-sweet - I don't like that! "

" How can you live the high life if you do not wear high heels? I don't understand why women wear these ballet pumps. They are only good if you walk like a ballet dancer, and only ballet dancers do that. "

" I came from an intellectual Parisian family. My father was a watchmaker; my mother was a housewife. We discussed politics, art, sculpture - never fashion. "

" I wasn't interested in fashion originally. Fashion was for other people. "

" Wherever I go, I buy shoes. "

" First I made a dress because I was pregnant and I wanted to be the most beautiful pregnant woman. Then I made a sweater because I wanted to have one that wasn't like anyone else's. "

" I want women to learn to find themselves. "

" Women should look at themselves and decide for themselves what color or length they should wear. "

" My view is that you have to deal with who you are. It's hard work, in a way, but somebody has to do it. "

" Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead. "

" I have never followed fashion. What is fashion to me? I just think of things that inspire me, that inspire women, and I design that way. "

" People are going to figure out that I don't know anything. I always thought I'd be discredited in the end. "

" I think in the darkest moments, we need a break. "

" As soon as I am up, I brush my hair. I eat breakfast first: tea and brown bread, and sometimes a fresh fruit juice like orange or grapefruit. I write notes on the previous day in my notebook, then I shower. "

" Fashion should be a kind of bouillon de culture. "

" My shows are about the complete woman who swallows it all. It's a question of survival. "

" It's important to keep on keeping on, to feel good about yourself and be happy with who you are. "

" I've never been interested in dressing one woman. What's interested me was to have a philosophy. It hasn't been important to put a woman in a blue dress. I wanted to dress women who wanted to look at themselves. To stand out. To be women who were not part of the crowd. A woman who fights and advances. "

" Knowing yourself, and learning to love yourself as you are, is the beginning of beauty. I think the most important thing is to show off what's most beautiful about you and to hide what's less beautiful. "

" What pushes me forward is everything I have learned: political, social, cultural. I put all that into the clothes. "

" At hotels, you are an actress. Absolutely. You can do what you want. Go where you want. I love my home too. But I love to arrive in a hotel. They have books, chocolate, food. I put things in the little refrigerator. "

" The key to my collections is sensuality. "

" My only ambition was to have 10 children. Fashion was an accident. "

" I don't know why some women don't wear make-up. Every woman should gild the lily. "

" My breakfast is very important. "

" I always believe in pants. You can play with your legs, your attitude, with pants. It's much more funny. It's much more sophisticated. It's much more arrogant, like a man with feminine attitude. I love pants. "

" I just can't live without chocolate - I have between two and six pieces every day. "

" My first conversation of the day is with my daughter, Nathalie. I call her every morning; it is a ritual. "