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I don't read e-mails because I hate them.

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.

My shows are about the complete woman who swallows it all. It's a question of survival.

Like Picasso, I go through blue periods, green periods, or grey periods.

A man is attractive when he is slightly disturbing like a woman, a woman when she's a little disturbing like a man.

People are going to figure out that I don't know anything. I always thought I'd be discredited in the end.

I don't know how to knit.

I was supposed to be a mother like my mother, who didn't work.

Since I didn't know anything, I did everything I wanted.

I don't think I would ever have plastic surgery; there isn't anything I'd want to change.

I was a tomboy, always fairly eccentric, and convinced I'd grow up to be an actress.

I was supposed to be a mother like my mother, who didn't work.

I just can't live without chocolate - I have between two and six pieces every day.

I wasn't interested in fashion originally. Fashion was for other people.

First I made a dress because I was pregnant and I wanted to be the most beautiful pregnant woman. Then I made a sweater because I wanted to have one that wasn't like anyone else's.

I don't think that clothes have anything to do with the personality. That comes from the woman herself.

As soon as I am up, I brush my hair. I eat breakfast first: tea and brown bread, and sometimes a fresh fruit juice like orange or grapefruit. I write notes on the previous day in my notebook, then I shower.

I don't read e-mails because I hate them.

A dress will never make a woman sexy, fatale, magnificent, mysterious. It's a way of walking, of standing, or existing, the way you give your hand or your regard. That's what makes the dress.

I became the world's queen of sweaters without even knowing how one was made.