We tell young designers that you need to believe in what you’ve made. You put all your love and passion into it and if you are good your dream will come true.

We’re never 100 percent satisfied with the end collection, … We always find something that isn’t perfect. We say all the time, ‘Next season.’

We are happy and we want everyone to join in the fun.

So the clothes are a good ad for living another life.

[Gambero Rosso (Via Naumachia 11; 011 39 0942 24863).] I especially like the fried fish and spaghetti with ricci di mare … It’s a little restaurant, not trendy, but very good. Il Delfino, near the...

When you see the clothes, the dress, in a hologram print you see all the color.

In the beginning nobody believed in us, … I remember the first and second collection we’d call customers, stores and magazines and they’d say ‘Who? Dolce who?’

When you see the pants or the skirt in profile, you see the movement of the body. I make this for the men and I want to make the same for woman, because the movement,...

The look is more sensual, but less flashy.

It’s a kind of femininity that is different from before. The military look, but in a romantic way.

It’s all a game, with new rules every season.

It’s Napoleon and his lovers. It’s about him and all of the women around him during his life — Marie Antoinette, Pauline, Josephine.

This place is great, especially in summer. It’s an old villa facing the sea with a nice private beach and a good restaurant. And it’s close to the market.

[Marab (Via Iannuzzo; 011 39 0942 653029).] For late-night dancing on the weekend, … we scooter down to the Giardini Naxos to Marab, a beautiful, open-air discothque. But that’s only when you want to have...

It’s about redesigning a point of view, … molto sexy.