The direction of the collection is it's a very precise look, strict, proportions are controlled, ... It's the first time we are introducing wovens and this also helps in a way to give more structure to the collection.

Skirts are quite short, but straight. Lots of dresses and it's very energetic, I must say, and it's very feminine and sexy, and colors are quite soft,

[Color, always an attraction in any Missoni collection, is here in abundance -- but more subdued.] Amber, gold, orange, kind of light olive-greens and yellow, but very mixed, ... They're never, never precise colors. Lots of mixture. Lots of soft interpretation.

We've introduced like cool wool, and of course, we tried already to do some jacquards, but we are, like in the first part of the show we are kind of like playing with the suits, mixing the positions of the clothes.

Not at all - it was a challenge.

I think we're going back to a beautiful woman, ... Not with the glamour of the '80s -- it's a more beautiful, healthy girl.