I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.
I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.
The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie.
Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.
All the things you're not supposed to do at the beginning of your professional life - transgressiveness, arbitrariness and violating expectations - you find more attractive at the end of your professional life.
I don't live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.
I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.
I love women. I get along with women more than men, and I have more women friends.
I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.
On vacation, you can wear all the colorful and casual clothing that you like, but you must always be elegant.
In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing... but that's impossible.
If I could do shoes for anyone, it would be a special project for the Queen of England.
There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled.
Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design
I always wear high heels - I simply feel naked without them.
How do I keep young? Haven't you heard? I sleep every night in the deep freezer!
I'm interested in the moment when two objects collide and generate a third. The third object is where the interesting work is.
I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore.
Even when people abroad see me, I'm often asked about a 'Zone of the Enders' sequel.
Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it.
When I was small, I was always thinking about different worlds in my head.
