I think that's what you and I have in common, Donatella Versace, that careful balance. It makes me proud to be an Italian. In the end, I am proud to do what I do.

I always think about the streets because that's where I come from and that's where I'm going to die one day. That is my life.

In the beginning I didn't want to do a menswear collection. It felt a little forced. And then I found that it was an amazing world.

No matter how much people in fashion think we're so cool and avant-garde, for most fashion people, creativity is quite taboo.

My definition of beauty is something between extremely ugly and extremely fantastic.

We are Italian. We are all little tribes - not only in fashion, but also in music - in everything, basically.

One thing my mom didn't want any of us to do was to cry or to complain about life. Every day and night, even when we didn't have much food, we would pray together. And that for me was a beautiful moment. The fact of being poor didn't really hurt me.