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

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

The world needs some excitement from fashion.

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

People want to be in their own fashion tribes, so they want to wear the same clothes to be connected to everyone else in that tribe. But they want to be different from other tribes.

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

Fashion needs to be worn.