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

When I started at 9, I was working with plaster. I worked with a florist. It was a little illegal for kids to work. They would give you tips because they couldn't really give you wages.

I listen to certain opinions because those are important to me. I am a Leo, so I very much have my feet on the ground, and I know what I want, but there is also a side of me which is a little softer, still a little bit of a boy who has not grown up and who listens a lot.

These five years as a couturier have really changed my way of seeing fashion and my confidence with fashion. Couture is a dream.

I can give a beautiful present, and that may change the lives of people around me.

I've always been obsessed with things that are half animal and half human - like mermaids and Minotaurs - because they are trapped in an animal body. And I felt trapped in my own life.

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.