The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.

For me, haute couture is a necessity. I never would have done this job were it not for haute couture. It is a comfort, a security. I almost feel it is our duty to continue. Haute couture is France. We have to keep all the skills and craftmanship alive.

The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.

For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.

The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.

Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.

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