Kanye West is inspirational. He expresses such a strong vision beyond music, beyond fashion - it's art. He sn't afraid to push boundaries and be provocative.

What is the Balmain girl? It’s a woman who knows what she wants and is going to express it

I like people who are powerful, confident, and fearless. Balmain is about an attitude. I think if Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor were alive, they would definitely be part of the Balmain crew.

When you become controversial, when you want to promote new ideas, you need to be the face of it and not be scared.

It's really sad to me that we even have to talk about diversity in the fashion world today. That I would love to change. Diversity should be normal.

I think fashion is fashion: Sometimes you dress people that you don't know, and sometimes you dress people that you actually know.

I wish there were more young people in the big houses, but sometimes it's really hard for them to believe in the youth because they go for what's the most expected.

What I'm doing now is having people with and around me to build what other designers built before - like Pierre Balmain with Josephine Baker, Audrey Hepburn, Dalida, Brigitte Bardot.

you have outgrown this skin.stop trying to hold it in.stop trying to hold it together.let yourself break.

Reach out for, then embrace your heart consciousness.

True success is achieved by stretching oneself, learning to feel comfortable being uncomfortable.

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amount of hard work that is put into it.

To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.

Dirk Nowitzki will be better than Larry Bird. I'm a legend killer.

It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.