Top 42 Quotes & Sayings by Gianni Versace

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Italian designer Gianni Versace.

Last updated on September 18, 2024.

Giovanni Maria "Gianni" Versace was an Italian fashion designer, socialite and businessman. He was the founder of Versace, an international luxury-fashion house that produces accessories, fragrances, make-up, home furnishings and clothes. He also designed costumes for theatre and films. As a friend of Eric Clapton, Princess Diana, Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Madonna, Elton John, Tupac Shakur and many other celebrities, he was one of the first designers to link fashion to the music world. He and his partner Antonio D'Amico were regulars on the international party scene. The place where he was born and raised, Reggio Calabria, greatly influenced his career.

Italian - Designer | December 2, 1946 - July 15, 1997

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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.

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Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.

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

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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.

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I liked women as a shape to dress.

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

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

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Comfort is very important to me. I think people live better in big houses and in big clothes.

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I want to be a designer for my time.

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

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

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I want always to be positive.

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

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

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I never fall down. I always fight.

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Fashion needs incredible women, alive, stimulating, with style like Diana Vreeland. She is the most. The way she talks expresses all her values.

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I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

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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.

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The environment was so strong, so dramatic. Tragedy is all over Calabria; it's in the air. All this corresponds to my temperament.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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I learned to work with my mother, who had an haute-couture business.

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My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.

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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.

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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.

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

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Glamour is back, but with a minimalist touch.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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