It makes me happy when my sons come home and tell me, 'We bumped into Donatella and she says hi.'

My husband and I were in Paris for the weekend and I hated wearing anything that was in style. I really loved '50s dresses, so we started going around Paris and hunting this stuff down. It became like this treasure hunt. From then on, I felt like a pirate every time I left Paris.

I educated myself, and it made me feel good. I went to museums. I read books. I did all the things, pretty much, that you would do in school. I would never want my kids to leave school, though, I'm really for education.

If you want to be a model, then you should probably become an actor. That's the only way to get hired to do the great advertising campaigns that are really interesting or the magazine covers, and it's hard to build a name for yourself as a model without those things.

I always had difficulty as a model just being myself. I can be very shy, and I used to have a lot of anxiety about working on set.

The art isn't there to be purchased - it's there to be enjoyed.

It makes me happy when my sons come home and tell me, 'We bumped into Donatella and she says hi.'