Gianni Versace was an Italian fashion designer who was best known for his bold and flashy designs. He founded the luxury fashion label, Versace, in 1978 and quickly became a household name in the fashion world. His death in 1997 was a shock to the fashion world, but his legacy lives on through the Versace brand.
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In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.
Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are.
Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.
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 am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.
I never fall down. I always fight.
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.
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.
I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.
I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.
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I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future. — Gianni Versace
I never fall down. I always fight. — Gianni Versace
Gianni Versace Short Quotes
Glamour is back, but with a minimalist touch.
You dress elegant women. You dress sophisticated women. I dress sluts.
My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.
Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.
I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married.
I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change.
Comfort is very important to me. I think people live better in big houses and in big clothes.
My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.
I don't license everywhere. I take care of my name.
The first thing I really enjoy is to make love, after comes the music.
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.
Gianni Versace Famous Quotes And Sayings
I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future. — Gianni Versace
I never fall down. I always fight. — 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
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
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 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
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
I love photography and art-directing is something that I really would enjoy to do. — Gianni Versace
I learned to work with my mother, who had an haute-couture business. — 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
I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom. — Gianni Versace
Designing came to me. I didn't have to move. — Gianni Versace
I want to be the joy to people through my work. — Gianni Versace
Fashion goes with the feeling of the moment. It's related to movies, to art, to young people's taste. — Gianni Versace
It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better. — Gianni Versace
The environment was so strong, so dramatic. Tragedy is all over Calabria; it's in the air. All this corresponds to my temperament. — 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. — Gianni Versace
I really want to make clothes that are feminine and help women look beautiful. — Gianni Versace
I liked women as a shape to dress. — Gianni Versace
I want to be a designer for my time. — Gianni Versace
I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers. — 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
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. — Gianni Versace
I want always to be positive. — Gianni Versace
Life Lessons by Gianni Versace
Gianni Versace taught us to be fearless and daring in our fashion choices, pushing the boundaries of traditional design and creating bold, statement pieces.
He also showed us the importance of staying true to our own unique style, rather than following trends, and to always be confident in our own creativity.
Versace's work also demonstrated the power of combining different materials, textures and colors to create something truly unique and eye-catching.
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