This is a great loss to all of us. Throughout his career, especially in the past 10 years, Gianni Versace has left his mark on our times, with his vitality and joyful way of being.

That loss made us a better team because we realized the other guys were going to have to do things to pick up the load when Terry wasn't there. We worked and worked on it and finally we developed it. Here we are and he had to sit out, but because we were preparing for that, we were ready for it.

I am able to do normal things, classical if you want.

I love that kind of wild attitude in creating things. It is very amusing to me that so many people, designers, creators are trying to remake the '60s. I did (it) at the beginning, just for sort of mockery but gentle mockery,

The '60s were free, innocent, without pressure. I did what I wanted to do. Remember when I was mixing prints. I started that in 1969 and '70,

In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to greater loss.