For me, the fashion show, the image, the shooting, is just a step. It's just a moment, but it's not the final destination.

Let's try to bring more style into basics, and let's touch real people all around the world, people who don't really care who Christophe Lemaire is.

I try to bring as much taste, smartness, quality, functionality, and aesthetic qualities to everyday clothes.

It's true that I've made mistakes, but I know I shouldn't do them again.

I'm interested in the poetry of reality.

I'm interested in the intimate relationships we can have with those good clothes that we may have in our closets.

Through designing clothes, I try to bring solutions to people, and I'm interested in the everyday relationship we have to clothes.

I'm trying just to do good clothes, clothes that you need as much as you want.

This is what I've always been interested in, trying to make timeless, functional, real clothes.

Everywhere I've been working, I always had in mind the final destination of the clothes, which is the consumer.

I very much believe in the collective work and the team dynamic.

It is possible to get what you want in life, you must work for it.

It's actually cool to be positive and optimistic and idealistic. It's cool to see yourself doing beautiful, great things.

There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

Interviewing is tough, especially if you don't know what you're looking for.

Learn to commend thy daily acts to God, so shall the dry every-day duties of common life be steps to heaven, and lift they heart hither.

You don't quite know how drunk you are until all of a sudden you're on the floor

...it's the process of losing oneself in the jungle that makes science worth doing.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

I feel like the places where I like to live, or study, or visit are places where people's differences are celebrated rather than just tolerated.

If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.