I think I was the first to show that a designer could be like a rock star, that people should love your fashion but also put your name together with your fashion.
— Roberto Cavalli
I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.
Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind.
In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.
Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.
Normally, I never dress up.
I feel fashion needs me for many, many years more.
It is important to be chic.
I love women's fashion, but women don't need me as much as men do. It's the men who have nothing to wear.
Money is the most corrosive aspect of life today because it means that all attention to detail is forgotten.
There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.
Fashion should be something that in the morning, when you open your window, you say, 'Oh fantastic, sun!' Then you take your shower, you say, 'OK fantastic, which colour I wear today because I feel happy?' This should be fashion.
I meet people, I like to ask: which sign are you?
I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it's one small piece of art.
Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist.
Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.
The big fish run the show. I'm a middle fish, but there are small fish that are poisonous.
I think God is the most fantastic designer.
I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.
I love a woman, I love to judge how beautiful she is, how beautiful I can make her.
The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.
I tried immediately to have a baby because I was so afraid not to have a baby in my life.
In my planet, fashion, I'm the only straight man.
Every woman inspires me.
I enjoy seeing people have fun.
My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles I went to fashion.
I am not gay.
Every girl creates a dream in her mind; everyone needs an idol.
Today the world is a big jungle.
What is too much? There is no such thing!
Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself.
I learn much more by traveling by myself.
With time, fashion has become part of my DNA.
In the evening every man looks the same. Like penguins. Women have a special dress for that event; men, the same tuxedo.
I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.
I know I have to be like people expect, because people love to dream with me, they like to think that I love my boat of 50 metres, that I drink Cristal for breakfast, that I dance until five o'clock in the morning. I am not like that.
I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.
When I go to a restaurant and they say, 'We're fully booked,' I say, 'It's Roberto Cavalli,' and they say, 'I will check'. I love it!
You can't just buy things for the label - it's ridiculous.
I love to spend money.
My name is very often associated with parties and entertaining, but it's not true. I am not such a party person.
Excess is success.
I love women in all their different incarnations. My friends are practically all women. They are much more intelligent than men.
I love you if you love me.
If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.
I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there and feel like a bird. In this moment I feel free.
I love being a fashion designer.
Maybe I think too much.
Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.
