Italian design is a global excellence, on a par with food, culture, cinema, and, more generally, lifestyle.
When it comes to my style, I'm a proper Italian woman of the modern age!
I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
Always the light fixtures I love are Italian, from the '50s and '60s. I'm like, 'What's that? I want it!' And it's always $40,000 vintage Italian.
There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
I have one car that works; it's fast and safe: an Audi 5. And I have two old cars that never work: an old Peugeot convertible, and an Alfa Romeo Giulia.
Gucci has great potential worldwide. Since it's inception in 1921, the brand has had a big visibility and many followers.
Nothing is quite what you expect with Gucci. I'm just happy to be a part of their adventure.
With a brand like Gucci, you have to give something that belongs to beautiful Italian culture in terms of craftsmanship and materials.
I designed a sports car, the Cizeta-Moroder, with Marcello Gandini from Lamborghini; he did the Countach, of course. The Cizeta cost $600,000, but we could bargain - if a Japanese businessman says he wants it for three, fine.
For sure working with Ferrari is a great pleasure. It's a great team, it's a great experience and it's a great dream as well to be there.
I interned at Fendi while Michael Burke was overseeing Fendi.
I'm not much of a shoe person, but I love a pair by Bruno Magli that I've had for 10 years.
Listening to Brunello Cucinelli is like getting your own personal tutorial with a very glamorous, fatherly professor. He is charming and solicitous, speaking in an urgent, musical voice. Associates say he is both disciplined and happy, as well as extremely meticulous. When it comes to business, he's known as savvy and calculating.
I love Milano. Historically, the city is the biggest intellectual design thinking container. It is the cradle of design as well as the hometown of the mothers of its important heroes.
Italy is famous for fashion, food, Ferrari, and furniture - furniture was a segment where the companies in the high end are all small.
We built our fashion around three fundamental concepts: Sicily, tailoring, and tradition. Our dream is to create a style which is timeless, and to create clothes with such a strong personality that whoever sees them can instantly say without a shadow of a doubt: this is a Dolce & Gabbana.
The most stylish country in the world is Italy.
I love Italian fashion - the sense of style that Italians have as part of their DNA. Nobody is like them.
Salvatore Ferragamo have done some nice handmade suits for me.
We at Ferrari are a small, dynamic company, and we show what Italy can do.
I have this thing for anything Italian.
They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.
Everything about Italy is hot: the climate, the people, the fashion, even the shape of the country - how much hotter can you get than a tall boot with a high heel?
As far as Alfa is concerned, everything is possible; the brand is extremely sporty and connected to Ferrari since the early days of motorsports.
