There are some people whom I esteem and want their opinion first, but that's my way. It is difficult for me to delegate. In the end, I do have two or three people on my team who I listen to.

I’m very faithful to myself. When you do things that are true it just comes out quite instinctively.

My definition of beauty is something between extremely ugly and extremely fantastic.

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

I arrived here, with a destroyed house, with nothing. I had to do everything very slowly. And with a little team and a great president, we achieved a lot. I am happy here. For now, it is still Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci, and I think that it will be for a long time, because it will be difficult to evict me from my house. I feel good here!

Most little children's obsessions are robots and Barbie dolls. My obsession as a kid was the Versace house. I used to save up my pocket money to buy Versus shirts. I was that obsessed!

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