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

Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.

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

For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.

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

I am always anxious to know what has happened while I've been asleep.

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.