Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations - Naïf Chic

People don't believe me when I say that I am shy.

But really, the single act of Yes, yes yes

saying hello can make me ice cold.

(laughter)

But when I appear in public dressed in one of my

most outrageous, strange, weird costumes

Yes, yes, I think there's a little of the actress in me.

Enter into that life....

Strangely, it allows me to be more myself.

I totally agree.

Fashion should allow us to taste the joys of flight.

We can't be imprisoned by fashion.

That is the worst thing that can happen to a woman.

We shouldn't be afraid of age,

but wear our clothes with youth and innocence.

Not real innocence but as a choice.

Innocence as a choice.

Women shouldn't be frightened of being conspicuous

but should dare to be different.

And they want to be much more free.

And they want to want to wear Schiaperelli pink,

that's my dream.

And I see that when you get older, you can really be wild.

Oh, my wildest collectsion was my circus collectsion.

Everywhere clowns, Sublime

elephants for bags,

ice cream cones for hats.

I thought Oh my god, nobody is gonna buy any of this.

But you know, I didn't lose one single customer.

Even when I'm uncertain, I push even more.

Because the only way to make something reasonable

out of something that is completely, maybe, wrong,

is really to push so much that eventually

it's an excess and eventually it say

the truth in what I'm thinking.

So when I did the banana collectsion

with the fur with the stripe, Yes, yes.

and those monkeys

and all this crazy baroque.

They were sure it was a total disaster.

But it turned out that people are much more ready

to accept craziness than people think.

Yes, yes I totally agree.