On being in demand
"When I walked into DNA I started working a lot. I mean when you have nothing in your book, Harper's Bazaar is not going to come calling, you know. I think the reason I started working is because I'm just myself. It's more about personality now anyway. You have to give something to the clients. If you've had twenty five castings for that day, they've already seen fifty girls. I've always been one of the anti-models. I never position myself like "I'm this star model". I get to my castings and I think, I'm meeting somebody new. It's more "Hey how are you!"
I'm a really positive person. I enjoy meeting people so much. I love my life very much. I love the people around me. I love being here talking with you. I love having a drink with a friend. I try to give a lot of energy. I'm not bored. I'm not tired, about modeling. You have to enjoy something to be good at it. I walk into the Dior fitting and I'm thinking Hmmm. What is John going to do? If I'm working with a Karl Lagerfeld, I'm not thinking," Oh I'm doing the Chanel campaign. Oh Wow." It's more like "Hello Mr Lagerfeld. How are you!"
When I work with somebody like Karl Lagerfeld, who I think of as this really big genius... I've never met someone who you talk with them and he speaks to you in Italian, French, English, what like... ten languages. I speak English but I'm Italian when I speak English. He speaks Italian but it's like an Italian. So when I work with him, I'm happy that it's a great job and very prestigious, but for me I'm more happy that I get to meet Karl again and he's going to maybe tell me one more great story about his life and we're going to get to do some pictures that could be brilliant."

On settling in New York...