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

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

I am still in love with couture because it is just two months from drawing pad to runway so everything on the catwalk is hot from the oven.

I look for friends who make me laugh.

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

Italy is a divided country without a center.