I liked the fact DAKS was an unknown quantity. It's more like Gucci before Tom Ford got there. There's a lot you can do.
After months of preparation working with a stylist who explained to me how a fashion house runs and the process of making a dress, I developed a respect for the patience and skill it takes to design these dresses.
My goal in a couple of years is to try to build a successful fashion house like Armani or Versace. I want that more than anything.
I think maybe that as time goes by there will be more newness but because I was part of what it was before it's not like coming into a house and saying it's all about me. I don't feel like that. It really is all about McQueen and the things that he was trying to say and about moving that forward, making it relevant, making it desirable, making it into what people want to wear.
Armani is a fashion house that I think is iconic and beautiful.
I love Chanel.
My favorite brand I have ever artistically collaborated, entertained, and supported over the years is the huge house that Coco Chanel built: Chanel.
Balenciaga was incredibleI was madly infatuated with his clothes. His clothes were devastating. One fainted. One simply blew up and died.
Chanel is above all a style. Fashion passes, style remains.
With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things by half.
Working at Moschino has been great because I just have to deliver when I have to deliver.
The reason I collaborate with Louis Vuitton is that Louis Vuitton is number one in the world, and I am honored to work with them.
For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them.
Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.
The worlds of art and fashion have always been very intertwined at Dior. Francois-Xavier Lalanne and his wife, Claude, for instance, did windows for Monsieur Dior. Dior himself was a gallerist before becoming the revolutionary fashion designer we all know.
We all know and we all perceive Christian Dior in a very specific way.
I interned at Fendi while Michael Burke was overseeing Fendi.
I'm an independent fashion house.
With McQueen you have so much at your fingertips. That is what's so incredible about this place. Lee built an amazing house, an English house - and that is very important - where creativity rules, where you can do whatever you want to do for the shows because no one's saying: where's your basic dress, where's your three button jacket?
I would prefer to use the word free. I think the Dior thing is so much freer. There was not so much free about Jil's way of working.
My dream jobs would be Italian 'Vogue' and anything with Chanel!
I love Vivienne Westwood. So much. Every time I go to London, first thing I do is go in there. It's ridiculous!
Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
Chanel all the way! Just because not only do they have timeless pieces, but since it is the epitome of class and elegance.
It is a real pleasure to collaborate with Frida Giannini and Gucci to celebrate one of the House's most elegant symbols: the horsebit.
