“What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.”

I’m never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that’s the secret to doing things well.

I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.

Personality begins where comparison ends.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

I never drink anything hot; I don’t like hot drinks, very strange.

I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don’t wake up before – the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.

I hate the word ‘cheap’. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.

I am physically allergic to flip-flops

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.

To reinvent a newly impeccable you in the most modern of outfits, don’t skip on makeup and be sure to have flawless skin and hair. That will have more impact than expensive clothes.

Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.

I design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens

If I was a woman in Russia, I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly. There are a few handsome ones, like Naomi Campbell’s boyfriend, but there you see the most beautiful women and the most horrible men.

I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I’m not a tourist.

They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.