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

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

Fashion needs to be worn.

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.

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

I never loved the world around me as it was.

There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing