My father was a shaman. He told me that time doesn't exist. He didn't use a clock. He didn't know when my birthday was.

There is something special about the beauty in the unclear, the ambiguity, the in-between that you can't totally recognise.

I have something inside of me that every day tells me that nature and beauty is the soul, the meaning, of our life. And I also love Hollywood and cinema.

I had two different kind of parents. My mother was obsessive with movie stars and cinema and Hollywood because she worked in movies. And my father was obsessed with beauty everywhere - in art, in nature, animals.

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 think a lot of people feel that they want something softer. Things are changing. It's about individuality, and in a way, it's romantic.

I never want to go out wearing something sad.

For me, fashion is something that makes you feel alive, that expresses something of you: if you are sad, if you are happy.

I love taking prints, embroidery, appliques - precious things that seem to be from another time - and using them to create a contemporary, new story.

This is the power of fashion: the capability of allowing people to express themselves.

The only dream I have in my life is to be a little piece of my dad, because he was really happy.