The Forbidden Fashion (2019)

Roberto Capucci: The young Genious

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• Roberto Capucci : I am 82 years old, I am not a child and I am more enthusiastic now than before because before everything was easy, - now, however, I have to confront this world which is completely different from the time when I started out. Now I have more determination, more desire to get it done, more desire to work.

• Anna Fendi : At that party I remember that I counted Roberto Capucci's clothes. There were 37 of them!

  Roberto Capucci : ...I remember there were 47 of my clothes...

• Il microfonista curioso : Why did you never make men's clothes?

  Roberto Capucci : I also made them but I stopped because men are the most capricious customers of all. Fussy, demanding, obsessive, much more than women.

• The journalist : How was "The Forbidden Fashion" born?

  Roberto Capucci : One day in Rome, at the Feltrinelli bookstore, I saw a man who had two white parrots on his shoulders. And I, who love animals, thought 'Look at that one: how nice!' When I smiled and he approached I knew he was Ottavio Rosati: I had known him well in the days when he was with Fernanda Pivano, the writer. And he, nice, put the parrots on my shoulder and said, 'Hi Roberto, I want to make a documentary about you! What do you say?' And I told him yes. There were three important directors who had asked me for the rights but I gave them to Ottavio. And everything went well with Rosati even though the production took seven years!