I knew from my youngest age I wanted to be a fashion designer. I was always draping fabric and working with color palettes.

Macrame is effortless.

I need contrast-the old and the new, the rough and the soft. The clash of it all is very sexy.

Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences.

I grew up in the Alps and France, and Barbie was my first exposure to the American woman. For me she was blonde, she was free and she was fun.

Dreaming is the most powerful thing because no one can take it from you.

I want to bring softness and refinement to an urban, feminine wardrobe and to help the woman show her character and individuality through her unique clothes.

Every woman in America has a French dream in her head, especially a Parisian one.

Fashion responds to the economic climate by providing a way to lift a womans spirits.

When you love somebody, it's like in a couple - you want to create something. Sometimes, it's a baby.

But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over.

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.

We're all agreed that climate change is one of the greatest and most daunting challenges of our age. We have a moral imperative to act and act now.

If I had a cat I'd buy another one so I could kick one and then the other.

I hate skin; I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever.

I went to Jamaica for six months, and in Jamaica there was a lot of stillness.

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

To me the greatest problem with humanity is that they don't know anything of meditation.

As a woman you're not accessible to every world.