People's wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress.

I've got what I want, and I've got the luck to express myself and to be paid and to do what I do as a creative person.

When I started, everyone said couture was finished and I was so scared. Actually I was more terrorized than scared. I was arriving from a provincial area of Italy. They called me in to do Givenchy and I just thought, Wow.

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

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

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.

When I was young, especially when I was at school, I thought couture was about big gowns, big hats (that is couture as well, of course) - but my couture is about going near the clothes and having a look at the details. I like people to have a shock in a chic way.