I just try to see what happens when you put your feet on the accelerator.
There is something special about the beauty in the unclear, the ambiguity, the in-between that you can't totally recognise.
I love taking prints, embroidery, appliques - precious things that seem to be from another time - and using them to create a contemporary, new story.
My apartment is full of antique pieces, but I put everything together like a modern installation.
I am brazen. For me, creating means regurgitating, distorting, and assembling everything that has passed through me and continues to do so.
I think that there is not really a difference between a 'Peanuts' and a beautiful Renaissance painting. There is something very romantic in the 'Peanuts' - it's at the same level of a novel or a Jane Austen story or a beautiful embroidered rose fabric. It is a piece of romanticism.
I've been an avid collector since I was a child.
For me, my way to think about everything in fashion is a very baroque way.
Trees and flowers are so important. The idea of blooming is the idea of becoming something different.
I've always been intrigued and fascinated by Gaga. She is a chameleon; she has the capability to fully express her individuality and her eclectic personality by simply being herself.
I think if you work with different kinds of codes, attitudes, in the end you have a language. It's like within a person. You are not always the same.
It has been a marvellous experience and a great gift collaborating with Madonna. Now that I have had the chance to see her working, I truly understand why she is so grand! I believe she is a true artist, and I am crazy about her.
I'm a collector of everything.
I am a collector of jewels, old jewels.
Westminster is a piece of this city's energy, something the contemporary world has forgotten.
With a brand like Gucci, you have to give something that belongs to beautiful Italian culture in terms of craftsmanship and materials.
To be against something or someone, it's a dangerous thing.
I adore the classical pieces of our culture. The Greek and Roman are still inside and everywhere; it's impossible to disconnect.
Luxury means that you show the way you dress with eccentricity.
My way to think about creation is like the end of the world. I love confusion. So music and image, picture, fabrics, people, person, talk: That's my way to work. And food. And perfumes. I love perfumes. And flowers and plants, and dresses and vintage.
