A vision of the future never contradicting the human rationale of things, a concept of technology connecting with the force of sensuality, reflecting the sense of glamour that gives fashion a true vibrancy.

Full awareness of a free way of being... of experiencing our body so that it's as quick, sharp and dynamic as the times demand. Thus everything we wear must adapt to the elasticity and ease of all our movements... In designing this collection I sought to devote particular attention to the anatomical construction of a now naturally longer and leaner physique. I studied the plastic precision of musculature, accenting the structure with cuts and shapes, stylizing the effect by means of jersey and stretch fabrics...

The sense of the year 2000 vibrating in this collection involves no revolution. Rather, it reflects a spirit allowing us to envision feminine dressing...

"I like to think of a woman who has a girlish quality to her, who can be childlike in discovering lost expressions of refinement. A woman who brings direct opposites to the world... to attain that confusedly free order which today for me is modern elegance. An elegance involving properness, neatness, severity, too. Bold and clear. With the will to make everything personal, exquisitely her own..." Gianfranco Ferré

Bordering between pure fantasy and design vision, as a little boy I always associated the concept of future with an extreme and potent image... helmets, heavy shoes, jumpsuits that 'obliterate' the body...

In a way sumptuous, primitive, eccentric and pure, shantung skirts take on the semblance of liquorice cones, strategic gatherings creating a series of flounces. Dresses with slight train have a simple air of royalty, plus the voluptuous rippling of Senegalese bubujes. Pieces of full-textured embroidered gros-grain come together to form surprising dresses. Spiral cornets of silk turn into skirts and shirts.

...As always when I begin to work out how to do a collection I gear my thinking to a particular exigency: award the design element an ever stronger justification and pinpoint the value of the product. Especially in regard to the male universe, recently in a major state of flux. For a starter, today men approach others in a way that expresses a full maturity, a greater self-confidence, a rational awareness of the body not only as natural fact but also as mental certitude and cultural choice... Gianfranco Ferré

Musical images, rhythmical colors and shapes… “There’s a sense of the classic, yet with flair for risk and fast pace. There’s the definition of a new opulence, in the form not of lavish embroideries but of contrast between daring materials, sublimation of techno ones.

Uniforms are the sportswear of the 20th century.” Diana Vreeland “We also look very good in our uniform and this separates us from those unfortunate people who go around in their own clothes.