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

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

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.

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

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

Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.