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All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.
And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.
And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.
I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery.
Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working.
Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again.
The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.
Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.
Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that.
For me, the summer will be pure gray - mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big statement for summer. Then we have light blue, light turquoise, lots of pink.
I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.
I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change.
In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.
My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.
That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.
You dress elegant women. You dress sophisticated women. I dress sluts.
A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot.
I do what I like now. I just don't have time for it all.
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.
Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music.
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Adam Weishaupt
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BirthDate
06 February, 1748
DeathDate
18 November, 1830
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Germany
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