I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.

Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.

That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.

For me, the summer will be pure gray - mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big statement for summer. Then we have light blue, light turquoise, lots of pink.

I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.

I want to be a designer for my time.

Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.