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.
— Gianni Versace
My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.
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.
It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better.
I want to be a designer for my time.
I liked women as a shape to dress.
I never fall down. I always fight.
I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.
I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.
My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.
The environment was so strong, so dramatic. Tragedy is all over Calabria; it's in the air. All this corresponds to my temperament.
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.
Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.
I want to be the joy to people through my work.
I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.
Comfort is very important to me. I think people live better in big houses and in big clothes.
Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.
I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.
I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change.
In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.
Fashion needs incredible women, alive, stimulating, with style like Diana Vreeland. She is the most. The way she talks expresses all her values.
I learned to work with my mother, who had an haute-couture business.
I really want to make clothes that are feminine and help women look beautiful.
I want always to be positive.
I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married.
I don't license everywhere. I take care of my name.
I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.
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.
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.
