Some say the economy means that you have to persuade people to invest in clothes - to buy less things but more expensive things. I disagree - invest in jewelry, or a house, maybe, but not in fashion.

I don't think about making sexy clothes. It's just my instinct to make them.

I wake up at about the same time every day. I sleep well and wake without an alarm clock.

I think men know to seduce women though words and conversation and nice gestures. That's much sexier than when a man uses muscle.

For me, music gives a voice to fashion.

I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.

Fashion is not frivolous.