“My family have been wool merchants since the 19th century. My first jo...” — Pier Luigi Loro Piana Quote

“My family have been wool merchants since the 19th century. My first job, aged 18, was buying fabric from my father to produce and sell ties. But I was also at university in Milan.”

“Our philosophy is always to search for the best quality. That is something our father taught us. It's one way to be different from your competitors. You can try to be cheaper, or you can try to be better.”

“You don't have to make things which are just expensive.”

“'Rebecca' by Daphne du Maurier was the first grown-up book I read, when I was aged about 12.”

“I joined a gym when I was 11, agreed to seeing a dietitian aged 15, and I remember being a teenager and going to shops, only to find that as a size 16, the clothes were hidden at the back or on different floors well away from the shop windows.”

“Let me live vividly until I drop. Let me drop dead aged 100 against my laptop, still typing this sort of infuriating nonsense, wearing great iridescent primer and my hair roughly the same colour as I wore it in Tenerife in the Nineties.”