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“I have a big passion for flowers and nature.”
“When I started to work at Gucci, I tried literally to destroy everything.”
“The obsession that you have to manage everything - it's really bad.”
“I love to give voice to things that are not very visible.”
“I have the soul of a director.”
“I really don't consider Kim Kardashian sexy. She's like one of those primordial sculptures of fertility, like the Venus of Willendorf.”
“All of us, we are not one thing: we're always between two worlds, and the idea of not being sure is very appealing to me.”
“I'm not scared of beauty, but if you fall in love with a beautiful man, it's not easy. It's easier to be in love with an ugly man. Beauty has a kind of power.”
“Snoopy was a philosopher in a way.”
“With a brand like Gucci, you have to give something that belongs to beautiful Italian culture in terms of craftsmanship and materials.”
“I love couture, but the other side of me loves the street, and I think the mix of these two can create something new.”
“Vintage is my vocabulary... like the notes of a musician.”
“The fragments for the past, for me, are not without life.”
“To be against something or someone, it's a dangerous thing.”
“The only urgency I feel is to keep on, at a slow pace, with my journey.”
“Sometimes when people talk about me in fashion, I feel - I don't want to say uncomfortable, but I still don't believe that I'm in 'fashion.'”
“I had two different kind of parents. My mother was obsessive with movie stars and cinema and Hollywood because she worked in movies. And my father was obsessed with beauty everywhere - in art, in nature, animals.”
“I spend a lot of time in Paris, in Milan, and in New York, and Rome is a little bit different. There is something in Rome, incredible, like in a Fellini movie. Everybody's screaming and laughing very loud. It's something that can give me more energy in terms of freedom.”
“Westminster is a piece of this city's energy, something the contemporary world has forgotten.”
“I have a lot of suits, but I'm not the kind of person who looks good in a suit. Suits are too serious for me. They are better if you can break the rules, so that's why I always try to add something crazy to them.”