Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.

With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things by half,

Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.

As times change, so do the way each generation see the world. It is rather like the way our generation came to see our grandparents' views on the Empire and colonies as outdated.

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.