42 Quotes by Gianni Versace

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.

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

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.

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

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 you live.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

Glamour is back, but with a minimalist touch.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I want to be a designer for my time.

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

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

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

I want always to be positive.

I never fall down. I always fight.

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

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 liked women as a shape to dress.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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