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The French like to play the intellectual card; they don't like to be over-sexy. The sexiness comes from the way they walk and hold themselves.

I'm always fetishizing the French woman and French taste and style. My assistant will make fun of me because every time we're picking the direction of a collection, I say the same thing: 'I want it to be really French.'

My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.

I've always got on very well with the French, perhaps because I'm very natural.

I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.

It's true that French are not very sophisticated in the sense that they don't dress up for dinners. They are not like Americans, where they are always perfect - the girls are not very sporty; they don't take care of themselves as much as Americans, who always have very white teeth and are so fit.

The French have got taste.

Accents are very sexy. American girls who speak French are very attractive to a Frenchman. Anything exotic or different is attractive.