But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry.

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.

There's always some kind of hidden logic.

If I was a fashion designer just following trends or designing for celebrities, I would not be fulfilled.

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

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.

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