My role as a fashion designer comes from a complex process, where creativity and imagination play an important role, but are supported by a firm rational analysis.

Ferré has a reputation for being a realist, with a practical approach to projects—working with everything in his head from market requirements, manufacturing schedules, financial limitations, and development of themes, to advertising. Brought up in a secure family environment, his mother instilled him with an obsessive sense of duty and responsibility; she was strict when it came to homework and passing exams. This level-headed approach even caused him to react with economic sense to Diana Vreeland's famous fashion quote, "Pink is the navy blue of India," made during the course of a conversation with Ferré. He replied judiciously, "Naturally pink is the navy blue of India because it's the cheapest of all dyes."

(quotes from fashion designer Gianfranco Ferre who passed away this weekend)

You have to love a man that gave some sass to Diana Vreeland.

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