Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Alessandro Michele
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Italian designer Alessandro Michele.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I understand that people want to see just the posh side of fashion, but fashion is a lot of work.
Westminster is a piece of this city's energy, something the contemporary world has forgotten.
You have to be open to dreaming. It's a complicated language, but I'm obsessed with it.
Gender and sex are about rules which we have invented, but we are animals; we belong to nature.
If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.
Fashion is the most beautiful illusion you can have.
Some women are forced by men to look a certain way to be accepted by the general public, and I find that terrible.
My way to think about creation is like the end of the world. I love confusion. So music and image, picture, fabrics, people, person, talk: That's my way to work. And food. And perfumes. I love perfumes. And flowers and plants, and dresses and vintage.
My life - it's a piece of work. And my work is a piece of life.
Trees and flowers are so important. The idea of blooming is the idea of becoming something different.
For me, fashion is something that makes you feel alive, that expresses something of you: if you are sad, if you are happy.
I love to mix everything together. It's really my way to see beauty.
Clothes are endless possibilities for meaning because with every change or different association, you are a different person.
I think if you work with different kinds of codes, attitudes, in the end you have a language. It's like within a person. You are not always the same.
I become mad when I work. It's like a fever that grows; I don't need to choose just one thing.
I am obsessed with fashion, like my mother, and I am obsessed with art, like my father.
With a brand like Gucci, you have to give something that belongs to beautiful Italian culture in terms of craftsmanship and materials.
I always explain through images and characters what fashion means, and describing scent is almost the same. It can be very powerful. It can really change the perspective a person has of you.
The obsession that you have to manage everything - it's really bad.
I never want to go out wearing something sad.
I spend a lot of time in Paris, in Milan, and in New York, and Rome is a little bit different. There is something in Rome, incredible, like in a Fellini movie. Everybody's screaming and laughing very loud. It's something that can give me more energy in terms of freedom.
Your memory is not my memory.
There is something in Shanghai that is very exciting and alive - the idea of a city with two different souls, one from today and another from a long time ago, is amazing.
The way you dress is really the way you feel, the way you live, what you read, your choices. That's what I want to put into Gucci.
Fashion should be genderless; how people perceive the idea of beauty can vary from one to another.
Beauty has no boundaries, no rules, no colors. Beauty is like a religion. You can include everything inside it.
Creativity is not about the fame.
Luxury means that you show the way you dress with eccentricity.
The only urgency I feel is to keep on, at a slow pace, with my journey.
I hate to plan my life.
I think we need to dream.
I am always connected with the Renaissance a lot; that's why I am connected with Pitti Palace.
When I started to work at Gucci, I tried literally to destroy everything.
Fashion is not about product; it's about an interesting idea that you can't resist buying into.
There should be no boundaries, no hierarchy, no violence. Men and women are equal.
In L.A., I feel God more than I do in a church.
I'm not scared of beauty, but if you fall in love with a beautiful man, it's not easy. It's easier to be in love with an ugly man. Beauty has a kind of power.
To be against something or someone, it's a dangerous thing.
I just try to see what happens when you put your feet on the accelerator.
The more you are different, the more interesting. The more you are not like me, the more I want to get to know more about you.
We live in a world that is full of product. We have too much.
It has been a marvellous experience and a great gift collaborating with Madonna. Now that I have had the chance to see her working, I truly understand why she is so grand! I believe she is a true artist, and I am crazy about her.
I love to give voice to things that are not very visible.
There is something special about the beauty in the unclear, the ambiguity, the in-between that you can't totally recognise.
Vintage is my vocabulary... like the notes of a musician.
I love taking prints, embroidery, appliques - precious things that seem to be from another time - and using them to create a contemporary, new story.
For me, my way to think about everything in fashion is a very baroque way.
The fragments for the past, for me, are not without life.
I'm a collector of everything.
This is the power of fashion: the capability of allowing people to express themselves.
I've always been intrigued and fascinated by Gaga. She is a chameleon; she has the capability to fully express her individuality and her eclectic personality by simply being herself.
I'm very curious. I feel more comfortable surrounded by people not like me.
My idea for Gucci was crazy, but that's the only idea I had. I was sure I'd be fired after the first show.
For me, reworking the past over and over again is a way not to trivialise the garments and not to obsess over hem lengths. What I am interested in, as a matter of fact, is telling a story and, if someone sees fragments of other stories in it, be my guest. I don't have to justify myself. What is urgent for me is what I want to say.
In fashion, people are very focused on the future, but I really love to talk about the present.
The way you dress is an expression of your personality.
I like it when I see people dressed on the street, and it looks like Gucci, but it's not. It means you are doing something right.
The future is not so interesting for me because the future doesn't exist. I am really focused on the contemporary.
I'm obsessed with trompe l'oeil - the idea of something that is existing and is not existing.
The idea that I'm 45 doesn't mean that I have no creativity. I'm like a student: it's the same - it's not a war!
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