I don't think when you work you have to please everybody - you make a choice. It's not like everybody who is in front of you has to become your best friend.

[Patrizio Bertelli or Gildo Zegna] are individuals who are superbusy, traveling all the time. You can't think they will have the time to attend all the meetings.

Giving back is the new luxury.

You know, I can be very tough in my answers, and that was good for the magazine because it didn't mix focus points - it was to be extravagant, experimental, innovative. But the web site has made it more human. So the Web site is good for the magazine.

Vogue is not a practical magazine, it provides sensations, feeling, moods, you like the photos.

I feel what is in the air. I go with my instinct.

I don't understand "The Little World of the Past" [a reference to the title of the book by Antonio Fogazzaro] that is destined to die.