"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."

"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."

"It’s not simply that you are going to create a collection and you lock yourself in a black room and wait until the mu…"

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