“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.”

“Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.”

“I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the me...”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.”

“She's the kind of girl who brings you to the moon without you even being aware. The kind of girl you trip in love with, The kind of girl you never forget.”

“Not every story is about a girl who dreams of romance, waiting impatiently and dramatically for a tall, handsome, strong man to fall hopelessly in love with, in the foolish hope that he will protec...”

“But perhaps she has given me the strength and the madness to write about the things that I once desired so long to put against the world.”

“I'll never wake up in a good mood again.I'm tired of these stinky boots”

“Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?”

“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”