I'm not a designer who is very interested in baroque or in fantasy or in the fantastic side of fashion. This exists and this is important, but I'm interested in the very real dimensions.

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.

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.

Passion is a realm of flow like a continuous flowing stream.

His attitude to physical clues was rather like that of the modern Christian to miracles. They could happen, but probably not just at the moment.

It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.

Ideally I'd like to spend two evenings a week talking to Proust and another conversing with the Holy Ghost.

Carolyn Maloney has been a consistent fighter for Afghan women but also for International Family Planning Bills.

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

He thought he was a wit, and he was half right.

Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them.

Oh, but a real princess would know that hard work ennobles the soul,' Rose objected. 'That would be one of the signs.

I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich.