In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.
Gianni Versace
That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.
I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.
It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better.
I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.
I never fall down. I always fight.
I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.
Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.
Comfort is very important to me. I think people live better in big houses and in big clothes.
Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.
I don't license everywhere. I take care of my name.
I want always to be positive.
I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change.
I want to be the joy to people through my work.
I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.
My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.
Fashion needs incredible women, alive, stimulating, with style like Diana Vreeland. She is the most. The way she talks expresses all her values.
My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.
I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.
At the beginning of my career, it was very hard to go up. Now, it's very hard to stay on top. You have to stay there, and I want to stay there so badly. I'm still standing.
I want to be a designer for my time.
I liked women as a shape to dress.
I want to see my niece and nephew grow up, to see their children... I get crazy at the idea that a time will come when I won't see Daniel and Allegra anymore.
I learned to work with my mother, who had an haute-couture business.
Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.
For me, the summer will be pure gray - mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big statement for summer. Then we have light blue, light turquoise, lots of pink.
I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married.
I really want to make clothes that are feminine and help women look beautiful.
The environment was so strong, so dramatic. Tragedy is all over Calabria; it's in the air. All this corresponds to my temperament.
