I spend my time backstage at the Lanvin shows, and when I come out at the end, all I see are people’s eyes.
I think that the lack of intuition in fashion today is one of the most dangerous things. My fear is that our business is turning into a bag business, and it’s all about the bag. But it’s not only about the bag. It’s about the women. And it’s not about a bag or a shoe or the jewelry. It’s only about women. . . . Being almost politically correct and doing only what you expect without the ability to make mistakes is very dangerous to fashion. We have to go with our heart. We have to go with our intuition.
I think that because I’m overweight, [my] fantasy was lightness. So I project my fantasy to the clothes, and now all I do is light, light clothes because it’s the one thing I don’t have. That is why I’m too afraid to lose weight because then I might make heavy clothes.
For me, Lancome was more than just a brand. There was something very nostalgic about the name, about the whole story.
I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.
Sometimes you don’t really need armor to feel protected. Sometimes maybe you need just a chiffon dress to hug you.
I think that we are in a very strange time, when everybody is thinking about what is going to happen, and everybody is kind of cleaning house a little bit. In the fashion world, we are doing something similar. We are taking the fake out and being a little bit more real and simple.
If you take something out of the freezer, it’s cold, but what happens when it melts? It’s a cool party, a cool person, a cool collection. What does that mean? I’m more interested in things that are uncool, things that have a certain individuality, a certain soul, a certain longevity, emotion, fragility.
I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail.
What is beautiful for you may not be beautiful to someone else. Or whatever is beautiful here may not be beautiful there and what is sometimes beautiful today is not necessarily beautiful tomorrow. Perhaps this is the story of fashion and what makes it move forward, the fact that there is no decision whatsoever with what’s wrong.
In fashion we’re lucky, we make dreams come true.
I think ‘modesty’ is a beautiful word today – and a beautiful attitude.
