My truth is this: That I don't know what will happen tomorrow because you can never know.

In prêt-à-porter now we understandably need to make the collection satisfy the big market more, so couture is extra special.

I am super-Italian, not even European - Italian. And this is very precise. It's like houses. Over time they stabilize themselves in the terrain. I am still at the first step of a long staircase.

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

To leave Italy at 17 without money and go to a country like England is very rare; Italians stay with the family until 30, 35. But I couldn't stand to live in this box anymore. I was getting bigger, and the box was getting smaller.

For me, darkness is something very beautiful.

I am close friends with Marina Abamovich, so I love strong, very aggressive political art. She is like a mom who wants to adopt me.