These five years as a couturier have really changed my way of seeing fashion and my confidence with fashion. Couture is a dream.

Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me.

Black is always elegant. It is the most complete colour in the whole world, made of all the colours in the palette.

My definition of beauty is something between extremely ugly and extremely fantastic.

For me, darkness is something very beautiful.

I’m very faithful to myself. When you do things that are true it just comes out quite instinctively.

Religion and love don't have a price, don't have a gender, a skin color, nothing. We are all on the same plate.

I am interested in beauty when it has something special and mysterious.

I try to destroy taboo in fashion-which is something I learned as a kid. I come from the street, and you have to be a survivor.

My life has changed financially and I have a name, but I try to never forget people on my journey.

Anything I do, I do with my heart. This is why I sometimes get very upset or sometimes get very personal when I'm working.

To live in peace, love peace.

Thriving leaders are the ones surrounded by diverse people from different generations.

I feel so agitated all the time, like a hamster in search of a wheel.

Nothing has value in itself. The consumer confers value on it by seeking to acquire it. Hence, the value of a thing is never objective, but always subjective.

Republicans are horrible with civil liberties, and not so good with dollars and cents. Democrats are horrible with dollars and cents, and not so good with civil liberties.

Love has a reason There's a meaning to the world We're giving love.

Because ain’t that white people for you, wondering if they are happy enough.

If we cut speed and relax with what’s going on in our life right now, kindness and patience will naturally come about.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

Well, it only dawned on me about six months ago that not everybody's against me all the time. It was something of a revelation.