They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second World War - they have all been creative reinventions, the moment new forms of luxury come into play.

The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea.