Stefano Gabbana

“I don't have the time to be bored.”

“To me, flowers are happiness.”

“Dolce & Gabbana is like our child. The editing of a collection before a show is a tough call, as we would like to show everything!”

“I don't look at fashion shows on the internet because it's too flat.”

“Customers are very demanding and well informed.”

“You have to work very hard behind the scenes, to make a message clear enough for a lot of people to understand.”

“In my whole life, I've worn black tie three times. I can't tie the knot myself. Once, at the premiere of the opera, I got to La Scala before Domenico, and I was hiding in the corner until he arrived, and I said, 'Quick, you have to tie my tie, please!' Otherwise, I'll wear a tuxedo jacket with jeans and my bling-bling cross.”

“For me, the future isn't coming from the USA, like it was before.”

“What I can say is that there are some collections that come easily, and others that require more work.”

“We feel a special bond with Sicily and its people - in fact, our first campaigns were shot in Sicily, like the one shot in Vucciria Sicilian historical market We enjoyed showing the faces and the characters that crowd that beautiful market every day.”

“I adore Britain! It's my favourite country; I love their eccentricity. I find Britain so inspiring.”

“Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility.”

“I drive around on my scooter in Milan alone - we don't have bodyguards or anything like that. I am a fashion designer, not a celebrity, and although I get stopped for autographs and the like, I don't think I am famous.”

“My mum is totally crazy for fashion still. Her job was as a laundress, but I loved it when she would dress up in her red suit with a mini jacket and flared trousers and get her wig fixed at the hairdresser's - it was the time of wigs - and we would go shopping.”

“Our fashion for us, it's an expression; first of all of life, I put all of myself in my fashion. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, but this is a mirror, an expression about Domenico and Stefano. It's not just a profession: it's a person with a lot of personality.”

“The first thing I do when I come to work, I say hello to my dogs and give them one biscuit each. The butler takes them out to the park and drops them off at the office, so they are there waiting for me. They are very popular in the studio. They play all the time. They run around, up and down, left and right.”

“You don't change your style by changing your bag. You change it with your clothes.”

“Italians know that what matters is style, not fashion. Italian style does not have social or age boundaries.”

“My dream is to have a baby, not to adopt one, because I am not up to it and I don't feel strong enough. I want my own child, a biological child, the fruit of my sperm, conceived through artificial insemination because it wouldn't make sense for me to make love to a woman I don't love.”

“I never talked about homosexuality with my family. After I was 18, they know everything, but I never talk; it was like an information but in silence. I start to talk when I was 32, it was good for me - it was like a liberation. I'm talking about a love story. I'm not talking about sex because love is love.”