Through designing clothes, I try to bring solutions to people, and I'm interested in the everyday relationship we have to clothes.

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.

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.

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

It took him a while to figure out that gaining an audience was not the same thing as gaining friends.

Every craft is a self portrait of the maestro who does it. Autograph your work with greatness.

If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

It is not what we have but what we do with what we have that constitutes the value of life.

This is a job and we want to have fun. But it's a job and we should look like we're going to work.

It makes no difference whether they be Catholics, Orthodox, Copts or Protestants. They are Christians! Their blood is one and the same. Their blood confesses Christ.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Success is the reward for toil.

I believe the book should be something you protect yourself from by returning to your life. But it has threatened your life. Not by saying something it believes is true, but by attacking it.