I am what I am. Before I was not so proud to make fashion. My family thought fashion wasn't very interesting. So I hid that.
What pushes me forward is everything I have learned: political, social, cultural. I put all that into the clothes.
To be modern is to be aware of what is going on.
Fashion should be a kind of bouillon de culture.
I was supposed to be a mother like my mother, who didn't work.
I wanted a maternity dress, but I couldn't find anything I liked. Everything was abominable. So I made one. Then I made a pullover. 'Elle' put it on the cover. Then WWD elected me the Queen of Knitwear.
I didn't listen to anyone. I was so violent, so authoritarian, only listening to what I wanted and myself.
I don't want to show my pain. I resisted; I hesitated. I tried to be invisible, to pretend that nothing was wrong. It's impossible; it's not like me.
When a woman confuses what she is with what she wears, then something is wrong inside.
I don't think that clothes have anything to do with the personality. That comes from the woman herself.
My fashion has no time, no season. It doesn't go out of style. If someone decides that clothes can go out of fashion, then you are deciding a woman can go out of fashion.
I want women to learn to find themselves.
Wherever I go, I buy shoes.
It is interesting to see what other designers do, and not work in a vacuum.
Women often stop me in the street.
My only ambition was to have 10 children. Fashion was an accident.
We are working women. Also, we have the problem of children, of men, to take care of our houses, so many things. I try to explain that in my clothes. They are clothes for everyday life. That is the real life of woman.
I have the impression that the women around me are like me - smaller, taller, fatter, thinner - but in fact, we are all the same.
The pill was the liberation of the spirit of women.
Women should look at themselves and decide for themselves what color or length they should wear.
