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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

He'd been ten years old when he'd last begged someone for something, and he'd promised himself he'd never do it again, but this was too important.

I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something is wrong with me.

Computers and games don't waste time - people do.

That's what we're trained to do.

When you think that you are done you're only 40% in to what your body's capable of doing.that's just the limits that we put on ourselves.

The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.

Economic losses like this are really as serious a problem as embezzlement and corruption.

My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.

When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.

I don't think the latest Star Wars pictures have any artistic intentions, but the original picture opened up epic science fiction.