“I am very proud of my last name, but I do not like the publicity that revolves around my family. At school and college, I had some problems. There are people who say to me, ‘You’re lucky your name [is] Borromeo, and you’re always in the front row at fashion shows.’ It is true, I have some benefits, but not the ones that....give you anything, more or less.”
—Matilde Borromeo on being Borromeo, to Marina Speich (of Grazia dot it) in July 2010