Fashion can be this mysterious thing that you can't explain. I love my beauty. It's not my fault. Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real. I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late. I am what I am. Before I was not so proud to make fashion. My family thought fashion wasn't very interesting. So I hid that.
Age and size are only numbers. It's the attitude you bring to clothes that make the difference. I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change. I think I'd go mad if I didn't have a place to escape to. Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it. Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer.
Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually. Fashion is made to become unfashionable. I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment. I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass. We look our best in subdued colors, sophisticated cuts, and a general air of sleek understatement.
You have to stay true to your heritage; that's what your brand is about. Fashions fade, style is eternal. My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years. I don't like trends. They tend to make everybody look the same. What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
Age and size are only numbers. It's the attitude you bring to clothes that make the difference. I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change. I think I'd go mad if I didn't have a place to escape to. Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it. Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer.
Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually. Fashion is made to become unfashionable. I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment. I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass. We look our best in subdued colors, sophisticated cuts, and a general air of sleek understatement.
You have to stay true to your heritage; that's what your brand is about. Fashions fade, style is eternal. My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years. I don't like trends. They tend to make everybody look the same. What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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