“London Fashion Week isn't the most organised, but I don't mind that. It's such an exciting place - it's small and cool.”

“Thinking differently is my strength.”

“I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.”

“Each morning, you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.”

“It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.”

“You discover yourself through the research of your work.”

“I'm the girl nobody knows until she commits suicide. Then suddenly everyone had a class with her.”

“It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.”

“We are the same, you and I. Whether samurai or night-hawk, the Suruga Dainagon or member of the Toudouza, it makes no difference. My sword is the proof...."These words, wrung from the very depths o...”

“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing b...”

“True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses.”

“There are those who dance the notes, and those who dance the music.”

“I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.”