Giovanna Battaglia is one of Italy's most familiar sights, always taking over the magazine pages of W and Vogue Japan and the streets of Milan (and every Fashion Week city) with her killer looks any chance she gets. Now, she's bringing her perfectly pointed yet spunky sense of style and design over to our shores by opening a pop-up shop at the Bergdorf Goodman department store right on 5th Avenue.

The style maven took over the iconic Bergdorf windows and filled a space on the third floor with all of her favorite things — including her new fashion coffee table book Gio-Graphy and an exclusive collection of t-shirts with witty catchphrases. We asked Battaglia a few questions about what we can expect walking into the pop-up shop and how she developed such a fiery passion for fashion.