Religion and love don't have a price, don't have a gender, a skin color, nothing. We are all on the same plate.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.