It's important for me to really play with the traditions and keep things simple and easy. Ultimately I believe in animal instincts - I think they often end up winning out.

When I make a dress that someone wants to put on and somebody else wants to take off, then I know I've got it right. Because when someone looks good on the outside, they'll feel good on the inside.

Paris is one of the most incredible places to live. Once you get bitten by the city, you never leave.

In order to be successful, you have to honor what's in old fashion house, but you also have to play with it and push the limits of it.

Florence is probably one of the most beautiful cities in Italy. It's very quiet as well - there's not much nightlife - so it definitely keeps me focused on the work.

I think my biggest muses in fashion are probably rock 'n' roll girlfriends, like Anita Pallenberg and Marianne Faithfull and Bianca Jagger - and then maybe Patti Smith a bit as well.

I'm really working on trying to get that lifestyle aspect of the Emilio Pucci house to be as strong as possible.

I'm not intellectual at all as a designer. Whatever I'm into at the moment is usually what becomes the collection.

I feel like I have to go back to Paris every so often. It just grows on you - the look of the city, the way people hang out there. If you're in Europe, it's good for that.

If you give your best to someone it will most definitely come back to you, often from a different person altogether.

The truth had been said but evil had been done.

[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

I've come to feel very strongly, not as a joke, that if you appoint a committee of more than four people, their efficiency starts to deteriorate.

I broke things to get attention.

I don't go for very handsome men. Like they say in England, toy boys break too easily.

Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.

So it was a thing that my mother always taught me to go for your goals and never give up no matter what they are, and I started believing that later on in life.

Those who start later, tend to achieve greater

A Company should be viewed as an unfolding movie, not as a still photograph