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

I never loved the world around me as it was.

But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry.

We all look for lost time.

Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.

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

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