Top 100 Donatella Versace Quotes
#1. Many young people don't know what Versace represent. I want to show what makes Versace an iconic brand.
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#2. During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.
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#3. Women are all the same; we want to be smaller in the waist, longer legs, slimmer. I design for women and their defects, to make them better.
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#4. A business woman needs a successful mix of design and practicality.
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#5. I've learned how to appreciate what I have. And it's a lot. I'm very lucky.
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#6. I believe it is the responsibility and duty of those in high-profile positions to give a voice to people whose voices cannot be heard.
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#8. I like to eat. Definitely. I love sitting around a table with my friends. But I don't know how to cook anything.
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#10. It's good to see the children be creative. It's the pleasure of the future.
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#12. Something has to change in the world. Without change, young people will have no future.
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#13. I have an image of what a British gentleman looks like, and that image finds real expression in Prince Charles. He is beyond fashion - he is an archetype of style.
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#14. If I could dress anyone, I'd like to dress the Queen - she can handle anything. I'd put her in black - she never wears black - and add a little leather, maybe. A little rock n' roll.
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#15. You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can't expect years and years of it.
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#16. To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin.
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#17. The body should be reconfigured by the clothes, never again the other way round.
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#18. It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it.
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#19. I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the first pattern, and then she had people working for her. So I grew up in an atelier, watching people all around me sewing. I was fascinated.
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#20. In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame.
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#21. At that time of the supermodels, celebrities didn't want to be in fashion; they thought they were more intellectual and interesting than anyone in fashion.
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#22. What is comfortable fashion? To be comfortable, that can't be in the vocabulary of fashion. If you want to be comfortable, stay home in your pajamas.
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#24. Feminism is dead in the world. It comes from another time. I'm a feminist. I want to fight, but I don't see many people with this desire to fight for something. Women don't help each other, especially in fashion.
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#25. Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.
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#26. I understand that the rule of fashion is to change, even as a successful designer - you do not want to be stuck in the same rut.
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#27. I'm a designer, and I work very hard at that. People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it's frivolous or superficial, but it's not that way at all. It's actually very hard work.
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#28. The three biggest fashion mistakes are cheap suits, shoes, and shirts. Spend your money on something good.
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#31. Some men look great unshaven; others just look like they forgot to shave. Beards and mustaches can be really distinctive if you go for an earthy, rock-and-roll look like the Kings of Leon or the Killers.
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#32. Women should be sure of themselves because women have a lot of capacities. We can achieve so many different things that men cannot. I think women are stronger.
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#33. I find older men more attractive than boys. I need a man who can teach me a thing or two.
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#34. For so long Versace couture was identified with celebrities and music, which I love. But at the same time it could overwhelm the clothes.
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#36. When I meet celebrities, I have to know what they are like and only then can I design. The clothes have to fit their personality.
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#37. Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person.
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#38. Scent is very important. Strong fragrances suit some men, while citrus types suit others. I like my men to smell fresh and woody, but also like a man.
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#39. It's no good being too easily swayed by people's opinions. You have to believe in yourself.
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#41. The man of the millennium is much more liberated than the man of the '90s.
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#43. I think men know to seduce women though words and conversation and nice gestures. That's much sexier than when a man uses muscle.
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#44. In mythology, the Medusa can petrify people with a look - which is a good thing, I think. But the Medusa is a unique symbol - something strong. It's about going all the way.
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#46. My style is not that big. I wear heels, tight pants, and I wear diamonds.
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#47. Powerful women intimidate men. If she's a really well-known woman, she has a career, she's famous - in that case, men are really afraid.
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#48. In fashion, women have more sensitivity, more sense of the body, so they know how things fit and feel. Yet there are not many women who study fashion. It's ridiculous.
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#49. My muse changes all the time because I think every designer is a bit of a muse for themselves in a way - they just don't want to say it.
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#52. I don't think about making sexy clothes. It's just my instinct to make them.
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#53. I think people need to see Prince live to really understand how remarkable he is. He has always been inspiring because he is never afraid to break rules or barriers or invent something new - and if you love fashion, then you need to be able to do that.
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#54. I love the mix of people who hang out at nightclubs now. Their individuality is an inspiration to me. The music they listen to, the clothes they wear and the way they wear them defines a street style that I love.
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#55. We shouldn't be copying what we see. We should try to find our own sense of style, to believe in ourselves.
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#56. As with most things in my life, I believe you should try to enjoy yourself and never feel like you are a slave to a routine.
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#57. Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt.
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#58. In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life. For a while I lost mine.
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#59. It's very important for a brand to have an identity through the years, but it's very important as well to evolve because times change so fast.
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#60. In my life I had no other choice than to become a strong person.
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#61. I think my own look makes people think I'm tough, but when they get to know me I'm very different.
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#62. I'd need an incredibly talented make up artist to make me look natural!
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#63. The suit does not represent the businessman anymore. Nor does the loud shirt represent the rock star. The same man can now wear both.
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#64. I was a fashion addict by the time I was 11 years old. I'd wear a miniskirt and patent-leather boots.
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#65. I think there was a time when I was too strict and controlling. I think I asphyxiated my children.
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#66. Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life.
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#67. Showing your femininity should help your career and not go against your career. Dressing like a man, using the suit to look powerful - that was the '80s, and that didn't help women.
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#68. Fashion needs fresh blood, and London is the most creative place for that.
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#69. I don't even know what my natural color is. Natural? What is natural? What is that? I do not believe in totally natural for women. For me, natural has something to do with vegetables
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#70. I have worked with wool all my life as a designer. There's so much more to it than knitwear - it's an amazingly versatile material and can be used in so many different ways from chic to rustic.
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#72. My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.
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#73. People are always surprised when they spend time with my children by how normal they are. They're polite. They're well mannered. They're very down to earth, in a way.
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#76. Alexander McQueen ... The fashion world has not only lost an icon but we have also lost a very special friend.
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#77. Women's bodies are curvy, sensual, it's about being happy to be a woman - and sexy is always good
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#78. Wear a fabulous smile, great jewelry and know that you are totally and utterly in control.
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#79. Let's just say beauty inspires me. But I like all beauty - I think it really comes from the inside out.
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#80. Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring.
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#83. I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.
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#84. I think glamour all the time. I wake up in the morning and I'm already thinking glamour.
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#85. I go from a full working day to making sure I am home for dinner with my kids. I couldn't do that in a 10cm mini skirt but I am not going to resort to sweatpants and an old t-shirt.
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#86. I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.
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#87. To define the era we live in is very difficult. How do we define it? We define it by music.
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#88. You couldn't define the '80s when the '80s were happening. We kept changing. We had shoulder pads, then we didn't. It was revealing, and then it was decoration. It was a lot of things at once. It was defined when it was over.
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#89. I love the strength of white blonde. Some people talk about having disasters while dyeing their hair - in my opinion you can never have a blonde disaster ... I am always trying the latest products - whatever is new goes on my hair.
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#91. When I work, I wear pants usually because I want to be comfortable. I wear dark colors, especially in winter, because I don't want to concentrate on myself but on what I'm working on. Because I really, really love clothes, I can start to think too much about myself. It's distracting.
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#92. I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion.
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#93. I don't see anybody categorized as a 'fashion diva,' except for me! And I like that. I am thought of as a diva because I wear an evening dress and I take care of my look when I go out. I go to parties regarding business, not for fun. And that's why they call me a 'diva.'
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#94. I am not a great believer in fairy tales. Every woman should fight hard for her own happy endings. Although occasionally it is nice to wake up as a princess.
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#95. Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.
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#96. You can never forget the time you're living in because the past is the past and it will never come back. So to adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you're living in is the most important thing.
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#97. I love anyone who breaks the rules, and musicians always break the rules - in an aggressive way.
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#98. I wake up at about the same time every day. I sleep well and wake without an alarm clock.
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#99. I'm like a little kid when it comes to music. I mean, the music is always blasting wherever I am that people always knock on my door and say, 'It's too loud!' But I think music gives so much inspiration.
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#100. I know who the Versace woman is, because I wear the clothes myself.
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