"I was growing up, my great interest was my horses, tennis and that’s it, and dogs and normal life, not about fashion."

"The first thing I ever designed was a black dress, for myself, when I was 14 or 15."

"I wanted to be a vamp since I started watching movies from the 1930s and ’40s with Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo, …"

"My parents never allowed me to wear the dress after I made it."

"It’s important to have love in one’s life, because it makes us more human and, incidentally, more beautiful."

"You don’t have to be afraid of getting older."

"Fear is the most disgusting thing."

"I think I was madly in love with Reinaldo when I was 15 or 16, but then he went to Europe."

"He has always been my great love."

"Maybe fashion was sleeping in me and suddenly it woke up."