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1. I’d experienced the ’40s and ’50s by looking at my grandparents’ old clothes, books, and magazines.
2. I am not nostalgic for the past.
3. For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it’s an opportunity to express the extreme.
4. I translated Beatles songs for my English class.
5. The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea.
6. 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.
7. Very skinny women don’t look beautiful in clothes.
8. Fashion needs to be worn.
9. Perhaps I shouldn’t have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.
10. I never loved the world around me as it was.
11. They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the ’50s and ’60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.
12. Italy is a divided country without a center.
13. Since I was a child I’ve loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.
14. 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.
15. There’s always some kind of hidden logic.
16. If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes — the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second World War — they have all been creative reinventions, the moment new forms of luxury come into play.
17. The world needs some excitement from fashion.
18. But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry.
19. 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.
20. You need ego but mine is not blinding.