My fear was that people expected radical change because of the new contract. But no.

Ready-to-wear -- that means 'ready to wear'. Some people are doing couture during ready-to-wear (fashion week), others are putting up performances, we just come here with our little flowers.

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,

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