There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing.

I am still in love with couture because it is just two months from drawing pad to runway so everything on the catwalk is hot from the oven.

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.

If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second World War - they have all been creative reinventions, the moment new forms of luxury come into play.

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,

I wanted to go back to the beginning and to the codes of the house.