“My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.” — Olivier Theyskens Quote

My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.

As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.

Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.

My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collecting for a long time. There are a lot of flea markets in that part of France, and she knew what I liked.

Personality is so important - when you dress somebody for a big party, it is good to feel that the person has an ease and naturalness with what she is wearing.

When you're designing a monster, there's kind of no rules.

I'm interested in designing for posterity.

I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.

I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.

You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace.