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

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.

Very skinny women don't look beautiful in clothes.

People want to be in their own fashion tribes, so they want to wear the same clothes to be connected to everyone else in that tribe. But they want to be different from other tribes.

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,