I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.

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

I never loved the world around me as it was.

I am not nostalgic for the past. And for me, being a museum curator was a childhood dream.

I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.

Fashion needs to be worn.

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