“I often wonder – what’s the most respectful way to approach womenswear, to design a collection for women? The more I think about the question, the more I am convinced that a dress – or a coat, a jacket, a shirt – don’t’ have to overwhelm women: they must accompany them throughout their day. Dressing a woman – outfitting her – can come across as an act of imposition by a designer: I prefer my clothes to become parte of people’s lives, to go places with them, becoming part of their wardrobe and their lives.”
““Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.” I underlined this sentence a long time ago, as I was reading “Infinite Jest” by David Foster Wallace, and it has stayed with me ever since. What does it mean to be different from others? Does it mean that we may be more like ourselves than someone else? And how about our clothes? Can they really make us different?” Massimo Alba
