I'm working 24 hours a day. I have had a house in Tunisia for 20 years, and I never have time to go because there are collections, fittings.

The present fashion system is too hard - there are too many collections. The designers have no time to think! Money is too important. Schedules are too crazy.

I had used the stretch materials for years to shape the inside of garments I made for private clients. Then I just started using them on their own.

'Vogue' remains while its fashion editors come and go.

I am very curious. Every day, I say: 'What am I going to learn today, and whom am I going to meet?'

Karl Lagerfeld never touched a pair of scissors in his life.