People are always surprised when they spend time with my children by how normal they are. They're polite. They're well mannered. They're very down to earth, in a way.

Let's just say beauty inspires me. But I like all beauty - I think it really comes from the inside out.

It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it.

During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.

In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame.

I go from a full working day to making sure I am home for dinner with my kids. I couldn't do that in a 10cm mini skirt but I am not going to resort to sweatpants and an old t-shirt.

It's good to see the children be creative. It's the pleasure of the future.