At the beginning, I didn't see what Givenchy could give my career. It was like, "Okay, I'll do it for the money for a few years to help my mom and my sisters."

Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me.

Black is always elegant. It is the most complete colour in the whole world, made of all the colours in the palette.

My definition of beauty is something between extremely ugly and extremely fantastic.

For me, darkness is something very beautiful.

I’m very faithful to myself. When you do things that are true it just comes out quite instinctively.

Religion and love don't have a price, don't have a gender, a skin color, nothing. We are all on the same plate.

I am interested in beauty when it has something special and mysterious.

I try to destroy taboo in fashion-which is something I learned as a kid. I come from the street, and you have to be a survivor.

My life has changed financially and I have a name, but I try to never forget people on my journey.

Anything I do, I do with my heart. This is why I sometimes get very upset or sometimes get very personal when I'm working.

Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a teenager. Chronology shivers.

The act of creation, the impetus to undertake it, is always some kind of feeble attempt to understand one’s own creation, the nature of creation itself.

You’re the rose in a world full of thorns, and the rainbow at the end of a storm. You’re the light people crawl through darkness for. You’re the good that balances out all the bad.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower.

As a rule, the Government appoints its friends.

What happens when you believe something with all your heart? Belief fuels enthusiasm, and determined enthusiasm explodes into passion. It fires our souls and lifts our spirits.

The dead are the only people to have permanent dwellings.

People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.