The problem is that resuscitating old labels doesn't work anymore. I think it is very important to give hope to a new generation of designers, so that one day they really can put their own names out there.

At Ungaro, I discovered the flou and the language of Paris.

I want a woman to feel the cut of the scissors in the clothes.

I'm a label that wants to sell. I believe in clothes.

Chic is when a woman is in harmony with herself.

My clothes are for the international jet set. They are very much for the red carpet.

I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about.

I don't shop. I buy things that inspire me, that give me emotion.