Both costume and fashion are about telling a story, except that in a ballet the story has already been written by the composer or the librettist.

I dont want to show clothes, I want to show my attitude, my past, present and future. I use memories and future visions and try to place them in todays world.

I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.

I’m very attracted to things that I can’t define.

The fashion world doesn't know the word stop, so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day.

Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.

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

When it's only clothes, that is not satisfying enough for me. I don't think I could do this for 10, 20 years if that was all. It also has to be about a psychology or a mentality or a concept.

Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors.

I find it fascinating to see the fact that women want to buy things that they see on men.

My aim is a very modern Dior, but at the end of the day, I also look back.

A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.

The greatest measure of success is the amount of joy you experience.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

There can come a time when change is so cataclysmic that it changes the fundamentals of how we do our politics.

Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in the phrase: To create a harmony.

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In nighttime series, the actor gets billing up front on every episode.

But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.

I like the touch and the smell of all the pretty dresses you wear.

I was clever enough to know that John Donne was offering something that was awfully enjoyable. I just wasn't clever enough to actually enjoy it.