I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.

I don't want to say temporary, because temporary is such a trendy word.

I want to confront myself. I challenge and doubt myself. Basically, what I don't like is to get bored.

The power of the media is really the only new issue in the last 50 years, probably.

I’ve never wanted to be called an artist. The term itself seems old-fashioned. It’s a term that does not relate to modern times. And it’s too confining. What I love about fashion is its accessibility and its democracy. Everyone wears it, and everyone relates to it.

Designing for me is a very complex process. There are many ideas that I want to express in one object, very often contradictory. The creative process in Miu Miu is completely different from that of Prada. Miu Miu is not as complicated and thought out as Prada. Rather than being young, Miu Miu is immediate Prada is very sophisticated and considered; Miu Miu is much more naive. The solution, when I am working on Miu Miu, has to come immediately, instinctively, spontaneously with whatever is available at the moment. If I think three times, I stop.

The fashion world is very active and generous, despite the fact that it is not very well respected - or at least not as much as it should be.