My Life My Style: Vito Dell'Erba

'I don't take anyone seriously post-midnight'

Best work moment
Working with the real Helmut Lang

Books on your bedside
Osho

Favourite accessory
Rajasthani tribal silver bracelet

Designs that have caught your eye recently
Ulyana Sergeenko (is) on top of my list for fashion.

Your IT tools
Mini iPad and iPhone

Favourite spirit
35-year-old aged Rare Auld Glen Moray whiskey

Favourite wine
I only drink red wine. Chateau Petrus (is) on top of my list.

Favourite Champagne
Dom Perignon Vintage

Your sleeping ritual
Answer all messages from my friends and family around the world

Best gift received
Health

Best gift given
My friendship

Favourite cuisine
Italian, because of its simplicity and variety

What food items do you like to shop for?
Totally non-processed foods - Au Naturale

Newspaper, TV channels and websites you prefer
The New York Times, Discovery channel, fashion, art and heath websites

Where do you like to sit when being driven? Upfront with the driver or back seat like sahib?
If with a friend, then up front. If with my driver, then in the back.

On a plane, do you prefer to network, sleep or catch up on films and reading?
For some strange reason, motion in vehicles makes me fall asleep like a baby.

Fancy coffee or masala tea?
Coffee with almond milk and coconut brown sugar

What do you cook on your day off?
Pasta with fresh basilico tomato sauce or fish soup with shrimps, calamari, anchovies and mackerel

What's your fragrance?
Tom Ford Neroli Portofino

You get your work clothes from
The ones I design or I get my Jodhpuri trousers tailor-made in Rajasthan

The shoemaker you trust your sole with
Giuseppe in Milan

Your shaving mantra
I don't shave. I cleanse my face every day, morning and night, hydrate and massage. I only trim my beard.

The gels, oils and lotions you swear by
La Prairie

Your current set of wheels
Don't have one currently but I do love Porsches

God for you is
Filled with female and male energy or yin and yang, an energy that surrounds all living matter and flows in us all

Favourite restaurant
Osteria Luna Piena in Milan - Puglian food from my origins. (it is) a small family-run place where the wife mans the kitchen, the daughter serves and Peppino entertains and you feel like you're in a family kitchen.

Your workout regime
Cardiovascular and muscular with machines - very basic, just to be toned

Your ideal holiday
Beach. Santorini and Puglia, where I come from, have been on top of my list, but now (I am) trying to discover new places in Asia.

Your ideal dance music
British House

At parties, do you like to talk turkey or make PC?
I don't take anyone seriously after 12.00 (midnight)

A few of your goddesses
Indian women

Alpha males you know
Alpha males are amusing; (I) know too many. I prefer men who are in touch their many sides.

Your motto
Know yourself (Oracle of Delphi)

Vito Dell'Erba ,
Creative director, Raymond