This famous April 17 is a date to remember as it allows me to reveal to you, at last, what's been on my mind for ages. I love writing these newsletters. For me, they're a reflection of my personality at the time and my heart's desire. Piccoli used to say, "I'm like that good platter of pasta you like to eat even when you're not hungry. And I can only agree with him, even if today I'd add parmesan and olive oil.

Because I've become a gourmet over time, and savoury foods have become part of my life. Before that, I used to get my sustenance exclusively from bakeries. At a time when Haribo and the like still had pride of place on the bread counter. But those days are long gone. The bakeries are now called Maison something and sell two-bit pains au chocolat. In any case, viennoiseries are not good for the waistline. I wanted to return via this forum to the magic balls of our childhood, the shells, the straws filled with a sugar that explodes under the tongue, the chocolate marshmallow hedgehogs sprinkled with coconut. All these treats were my fuel. They helped me cope with my mother's swift beatings and my father's verbal humiliations.

To comfort myself, I'd pilfer whatever scrap metal I could find in their trouser pockets, and then run off to gorge myself on sweets. The tangy wires and French fries healed my emotional wounds. And as I ate them, I thought about how I could pay them back. I was young and had only short-term plans in mind.

But as time went by, I realized that they themselves had been the victims of harsh treatment. But that's how it was, if I may say so, it was another era when everything was hushed up, sometimes even the children, to stop them screaming. Fortunately, even if there's still a long way to go, we're moving towards the light. And so am I. That's why I decided to create shoes that are so colorful and sparkling, because they remind me of the sweets that used to recharge my batteries and remind me that the world wasn't all brutality.

I give you a very tender kiss.

And because it's the best of them all and I should, in principle, have interpreted it :