I never loved the world around me as it was.

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

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

We all look for lost time.

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

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

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