If I don't have a model in front of me, I don't have an idea.

When you have one idea per year, it's already a miracle!

I like black, because for me it is a very happy color.

I have total confidence in Beaute Prestige International to accompany me in creating a perfume that interprets my work and my world.

You know Sarkozy offered me the Legion d'honneur medal? I refused. People said I refused because I don't like Sarkozy, but that's ridiculous. I refused because I don't like decorations - except on women.

There was a woman in Tunisia called Madame Pinot. She was a midwife and had helped in the birth of my siblings and me. I assisted her. I helped women give birth to a lot of babies when I was very young.