The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea
For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.
Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.
The world needs some excitement from fashion.
People want to be in their own fashion tribes, so they want to wear the same clothes to be connected to everyone else in that tribe. But they want to be different from other tribes.
I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.
We all look for lost time.
For me, haute couture is a necessity. I never would have done this job were it not for haute couture. It is a comfort, a security. I almost feel it is our duty to continue. Haute couture is France. We have to keep all the skills and craftmanship alive.
Fashion needs to be worn.
There's always some kind of hidden logic.
There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing
I look for friends who make me laugh.
I never loved the world around me as it was.
The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.
I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines
I am always anxious to know what has happened while I've been asleep.
If I was a fashion designer just following trends or designing for celebrities, I would not be fulfilled.
Italy is a divided country without a center.
But some one will say that this supreme Being, who made all things, and those also who conferred on men particular benefits, are entitled to their respective worship.
French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.
But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry.
Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.
Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.
I am still in love with couture because it is just two months from drawing pad to runway so everything on the catwalk is hot from the oven.
