Gianni Versace Quotations

I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.

It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better.

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.

In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.

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 like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.

I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.

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 think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.

I really want to make clothes that are feminine and help women look beautiful.

I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married.

I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change.

I liked women as a shape to dress.

I don't license everywhere. I take care of my name.

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.

My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.

I want to be a designer for my time.

I want to be the joy to people through my work.

Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.

My fantasy is to leave options for women -- to make their individuality come out, to try to accomplish what they want, and I think women want to look beautiful. (It's) less about jacket(s) and more about shirt(s) and about sweaters, about T-shirts and about freedom.

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.

What women need today is classic things with an age, with fantasy, with a quality. Dresses you can live with. Sometimes it's the fabrics who win, sometimes it's the shape, but I always rework on themes that make Versace a classic name with serenity.

A lot of devore fabric, see-through. (It) is a kind of collection you can combine in a different way.

(It's) irregular (and) cut in a different way.

I want always to be positive.

You dress elegant women. You dress sophisticated women. I dress sluts.

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.

I watch women continuously. I want them to look beautiful, I am not interested in making them funny, but just beautiful. They have got to look marvelous to please their own men.

I love photography and art-directing is something that I really would enjoy to do.

I hate the traffic over there. Why don't they start to build moving pathways to replace all the streets? I see New York in a very futuristic way, but they must do something new.

Do not go into trends. Do not allow fashion take you over, choose who you want to be and what do you want to show with your clothes and lifestyle.

I love very much the night after every fashion show when I have all those invitations to parties and I stay quiet at home by myself.

Glamour is back, but with a minimalist touch.

Perfume puts the finishing touch to elegance - a detail that subtly underscores the look, an invisible extra that completes a man and a woman's personality. Without it there is something missing.

Fashion goes with the feeling of the moment. It's related to movies, to art, to young people's taste.

In those days, when I was a little kid, I met the truer more authentic people of my life. The men were so pure, strong, honest, and faithful unto death - with an incredible sense of respect for a boss.

The first thing I really enjoy is to make love, after comes the music.

I never fall down. I always fight.

Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.

Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are

I don't want to suggest go shorter (because) I invented long. It's become so pretentious in fashion, but it's about educating the style of the people. And people have to educate themselves and express their individuality.