My challenge is to find a beautiful balance: to make women beautiful, to make a woman dream to wear a beautiful outfit.

If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream.

You can instantly spot a Chanel woman, so I want to develop the Dior woman.

The Chanel woman? I don't even need to see; I smell her from round the corner.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

In the nineties, it was common to see people who expressed themselves through one designer - the Jil Sander woman, the Martin Margiela woman. You saw her on the street, and you knew who she was.