I started to draw and design clothes that I couldn't find, because everything was all luxury, fashion clothes or very straight. So I mixed all of that together: Who says I can't put a man in a skirt? Who says that a man can't wear lace? Who says that men can't wear Swarovski? Who says that men can't wear makeup? You know what I'm like; for me, straight, gay, women, men, trans, we're all the same. I don't see difference.

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.

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

Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me.

I've had this sensibility since I was a child. If there was a black boy in the school, I was the friend. If there was an effeminate guy, I was the friend. If there was somebody who was poor like me, I was the friend.

My friends were like, "Oh, this weekend, we're going to go shopping." "Oh, this weekend I'm going to go to see the judo champion" ... you know. And I couldn't do anything.

I tried to never exclude people. I know what it means to be left out.