Gianni Versace Quotes

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

— Gianni Versace

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

— Gianni Versace

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

— Gianni Versace

“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.”

— Gianni Versace

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.

— Gianni Versace

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

— Gianni Versace

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

— Gianni Versace

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

— Gianni Versace

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

— Gianni Versace

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

— Gianni Versace

“I never fall down. I always fight.”

— Gianni Versace

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

— Gianni Versace

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

— Gianni Versace

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

— Gianni Versace

“I want always to be positive.”

— Gianni Versace

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

— Gianni Versace

I liked women as a shape to dress.

— Gianni Versace

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

— Gianni Versace

“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.”

— Gianni Versace

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

— Gianni Versace

“I want to be a designer for my time.”

— Gianni Versace

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

— Gianni Versace

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

— Gianni Versace

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

— Gianni Versace

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

— Gianni Versace

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

— Gianni Versace

“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.”

— Gianni Versace

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

— Gianni Versace

“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.”

— Gianni Versace

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

— Gianni Versace

“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.”

— Gianni Versace

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

— Gianni Versace

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

— Gianni Versace

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.

— Gianni Versace

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

— Gianni Versace

“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.”

— Gianni Versace

“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.”

— Gianni Versace

“Glamour is back, but with a minimalist touch.”

— Gianni Versace