They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

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.

Italy is a divided country without a center.

That was the idea behind glam clubs like Seven and The New Eve. You could eat and dance to live music. To enter you had to descend a grand staircase.

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

Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.