Catherine Malandrino

Every woman in America has a French dream in her head, especially a Parisian one.

I grew up in the Alps and France, and Barbie was my first exposure to the American woman. For me she was blonde, she was free and she was fun.

Fashion responds to the economic climate by providing a way to lift a woman's spirits.

I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

I became a cartoonist because I'd sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default.