If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening.

It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful.

A fundamental American question is, 'What's the big idea?'

Their lives are bigger than any big idea

I always have a big idea. It pops up every two to three years.

I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! And I was crazy for the Hollywood of the 1950s: Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones. They were my idea of glamour - and Sylvie Vartan, the French singer.