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

The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea

Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

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

If I was a fashion designer just following trends or designing for celebrities, I would not be fulfilled.

In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.

Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.