I think women should be seductive, not triste. There's enough sadness in life now without making women look sad, too.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control.
If I have chosen the female form in particular, it is because beauty has been debased and exploited in our sensual 20th century.
I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.
The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.
A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
Sofia is so active, and she made The Virgin Suicides, which I thought was great - all these things are inspiring to me, not in terms of creating a particular dress, but just in terms of knowing that there is this type of woman out there.
In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men.
I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.