Gianni Versace Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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• I want to be a designer for my time.

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• I never fall down. I always fight.

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• I liked women as a shape to dress.

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• I don’t license everywhere. I take care of my name.

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

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

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

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  Tags in Comfort, Importance

• Designing came to me. I didn’t have to move.

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

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

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Gianni Versace (23)

Birth:	2nd December, 1946
Death:	15th July, 1997
Nationality:	Italian
Profession:	Fashion Designer

About

Gianni Versace was born in Reggio Calabria, Italy. He was an Italian fashion designer and founder of Versace, an international fashion house, which produces accessories, fragrances, make-up and home furnishings as well as clothes. He also designed costumes for the theatre and films. He was the first designer to link fashion to the music world. He studied architecture before moving to Milan at the age of 26 to work in fashion design.

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