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

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.

Then, sometime during the fourth year, the omens will abandon you, because you've stopped listening to them.

Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

I'm just at the age when time speeds up in an odd way. Do you know what I mean? The winters come closer together and you learn to accept that you're not special anymore.

Over my dead body, I thought. Yes, even immortals use that phrase. It has extra oomph for us.

At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.

It's very hard, for most of us to tolerate being loved.

The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours ... but is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.

... an institution cannot be run progressively on a basis of fear.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

Morals are concerned with what aids or impedes the fulfillment of basic human needs.