Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by Marco Zanini

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Italian designer Marco Zanini.
Last updated on November 18, 2024.
Marco Zanini

Marco Zanini is an Italian fashion designer. He is most noted for serving as creative director of the House of Schiaparelli in 2014, overseeing the couture fashion house's first runway show since its closure in 1954. This came after having led the successful revival at Halston and Rochas.

A Schiaparelli woman is not about cliche.
Real luxury is a balance between quality and the affection you feel for an object that cannot be easily replicated.
I'm always looking for signs. — © Marco Zanini
I'm always looking for signs.
When I think resort, I think prettiness.
Schiaparelli, for me, is about eclecticism.
As long as I have fashion memories, Schiaparelli has been there.
Schiaparelli was almost like a pop artist. Even the first sweater had a naive visual impact. You immediately get it, and you love it or you hate it. There's nothing in between. But she had a proper upbringing, so she also understood about quality and luxury.
Fashion means never to look too much backwards. It always needs to go forwards.
Especially as a teenager, you were so fond of Schiaparelli because she was slightly extreme, rebellious, and iconoclastic as well. That appeals to teenagers!
We are all human, and mistakes are just around the corner, but experience lets you try to avoid them.
A product that wants to stand out needs different treatment.
When I was 10 or 11, I started to sketch, and my drawings happened to be like fashion drawings... I'm lucky to have had this dream to chase since I was very young.
In fashion, there's huge pressure to produce results in no time. But you cannot guarantee numbers, because fashion gravitates around desire.
The biggest and most interesting challenge is to bring Elsa Schiaparelli's legacy to the present and the future. She had an exceptional, incredible, and intelligent approach; she was ahead of her times.
I've never liked to conceptualize too much about fashion, like it was art or science, which it is not. But it's nice when there's a clear idea behind a collection.
I love the personality of Schiaparelli so much.
Integrity is the distinctive Santoni trait. Their attention for the longevity of good product matches the widely-felt need for fashion that's less superficial and volatile.
It's couture. Everything has to be done by hand. That is most important. That is the crucial element. Without it, that is not couture anymore. — © Marco Zanini
It's couture. Everything has to be done by hand. That is most important. That is the crucial element. Without it, that is not couture anymore.
Luxury is not a $4,000 T-shirt - that's just an expensive item, the same as if a can of Coca-Cola cost $5,000.
Schiaparelli symbolizes the capacity to think and create in a different way.
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