Top 67 Riccardo Quotes
#1. I am so grateful to Marc Jacobs, Riccardo Tisci, Karl Lagerfeld, and Katie Grand, who took a chance on me that first season and gave me an opportunity.
Kendall Jenner
#2. I discovered the slip dress, which I think is one of the more French things because when you take off your clothes, even when to go into a shop to buy something, or you're going to Riccardo Tisci to try on a suit, it's like having protection.
Carine Roitfeld
#3. The moment you think you have charisma, you are finished.
Riccardo Muti
#4. You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.
Riccardo Muti
#5. Couture was only for rich people. Givenchy was for rich people. A bag cost 5,000 euro; a coat cost 10,000 euro. In the beginning, I couldn't react. I was just working like a machine, because I wanted to make the house happy.
Riccardo Tisci
#6. One thing my mom didn't want any of us to do was to cry or to complain about life. Every day and night, even when we didn't have much food, we would pray together. And that for me was a beautiful moment. The fact of being poor didn't really hurt me.
Riccardo Tisci
#7. Nothing is going to happen unless you work with your life's blood.
Riccardo Giacconi
#8. You live in a damnably twisted and convoluted world," replied Mathias. "And you are trampling accross it with all the delicacy of an elephant in a glass shop!" -Conversation between Mathias Munster and Giacomo Foscarini
Riccardo Bruni
#9. Anything I do, I do with my heart. This is why I sometimes get very upset or sometimes get very personal when I'm working.
Riccardo Tisci
#10. You must always conduct your business with a clear mind, free of personal issues. Until you learn this simple fact, you'll never get anything out of life. -Moses Luzzatto
Riccardo Bruni
#11. My obsession when I was kid, from '85 into the '90s, was Gianni Versace. It was Helmut Lang. It was Margiela. So I said, "I cannot have Givenchy only as a luxury house; I'm going to introduce products for everybody, things that are reachable."
Riccardo Tisci
#12. I am interested in beauty when it has something special and mysterious.
Riccardo Tisci
#13. When I was far away, when I prayed every night, I felt I was very near with my heart, with my brain, to my sisters and my mom.
Riccardo Tisci
#14. We didn't have a television, so we sat around the table, and me and my sisters and my mom would do these jobs, like, a penny for a piece, you know, these paper jobs. You know, what really saved me as a human today is my sisters and my mom.
Riccardo Tisci
#16. People's wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress.
Riccardo Tisci
#17. I tried to never exclude people. I know what it means to be left out.
Riccardo Tisci
#18. I used to hate to go to school, because when it was Friday afternoon and everybody was finished school, I knew I was going to work Saturday and Sunday.
Riccardo Tisci
#21. Are you afraid a demon has escaped Hell in order to descend upon the Venetians?"
"I think there are a few who'd deserve it, but I'm also a man of science, and I believe that we all carry our own private infernos inside ourselves."
-Conversation between Majid and Mathias
Riccardo Bruni
#22. This is why I decided to work with Nike, too, because it is even more mass-market than Givenchy and could make entry-price shoes and make people dream to be part of the journey.
Riccardo Tisci
#23. Every two to three weeks, I was changing around my room. My room was made out of nothing, basically - a magazine, a little radio, a little bed - and I had the sensibility to put things together and match things in a certain way so that they were very special.
Riccardo Tisci
#24. Religion and love don't have a price, don't have a gender, a skin color, nothing. We are all on the same plate.
Riccardo Tisci
#25. I didn't invent hot water. But when I approach menswear, I do it in a very honest way. And my menswear and womenswear are very similar, in the sense that I put men in leggings and lace shirts.
Riccardo Tisci
#26. No matter how much people in fashion think we're so cool and avant-garde, for most fashion people, creativity is quite taboo.
Riccardo Tisci
#27. I'm very well off but I can stay with normal people. I can do a super-luxury life, but I can do a very normal life and I'm not scared.
Riccardo Tisci
#28. I come from a very poor family, with sisters. I never really knew my father, so I miss this strong image of a man in my life.
Riccardo Tisci
#29. I can give a beautiful present, and that may change the lives of people around me.
Riccardo Tisci
#30. I've had this sensibility since I was a child. If there was a black boy in the school, I was the friend. If there was an effeminate guy, I was the friend. If there was somebody who was poor like me, I was the friend.
Riccardo Tisci
#31. I was a very nice boy. I was well-educated ... very Catholic family. So I was very respectful, never late at work. I was always the last one to leave. It's always been that way in my life.
Riccardo Tisci
#32. When I started at 9, I was working with plaster. I worked with a florist. It was a little illegal for kids to work. They would give you tips because they couldn't really give you wages.
Riccardo Tisci
#33. Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me.
Riccardo Tisci
#34. In Italy, especially in '70s and '80s, there was a lot of racism between north and south. And my mom immigrated from the south to the north, from Puglia, the heel of Italy. But what made me feel different was society, not my family.
Riccardo Tisci
#35. I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.
Riccardo Muti
#36. The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.
Riccardo Muti
#37. My relationship with religion is very strong because it was my hope, and it gave me two things very important in my life. It gave me the belief and it gave me a point to reach: Don't do something bad to the people next to you.
Riccardo Tisci
#38. My life has changed financially and I have a name, but I try to never forget people on my journey.
Riccardo Tisci
#39. I'm very faithful to myself. When you do things that are true it just comes out quite instinctively.
Riccardo Tisci
#40. My definition of beauty is something between extremely ugly and extremely fantastic.
Riccardo Tisci
#41. It seems like someone is using wars and our economic crisis to spread distrust and rancor among the population. In times like these, those are dangerous feelings to spread around.
Riccardo Bruni
#42. I've got what I want, and I've got the luck to express myself and to be paid and to do what I do as a creative person.
Riccardo Tisci
#43. I have closed that page of my life without rancor. I do not disown any of the work done.
Riccardo Muti
#44. The aborigines in Australia, the way they dress is very honest; it's not about: "Oh, you wear a skirt, you're gay."
Riccardo Tisci
#45. My friends were like, "Oh, this weekend, we're going to go shopping." "Oh, this weekend I'm going to go to see the judo champion" ... you know. And I couldn't do anything.
Riccardo Tisci
#46. I didn't know I was going to become a designer; I was going to become a successful person, but I really wanted to be free.
Riccardo Tisci
#47. I brought a lot of the codification of womenswear to menswear. Why? Because when I was a child, I was wearing women's clothes adjusted to me.
Riccardo Tisci
#48. I had only two girlfriends. I didn't have many friends because I was staying at home and dreaming - drawing and dreaming.
Riccardo Tisci
#49. He was going to hurt the people he hated, but inside he didn't feel any real sense of satisfaction. He hated them all the more for having made him feel so small, so petty and mean, which was all he felt just then. But it wasn't enough to stop him.
Riccardo Bruni
#50. You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.
Riccardo Muti
#51. I love art and music more than I love fashion, to be honest,
Riccardo Tisci
#52. I always think about the streets because that's where I come from and that's where I'm going to die one day. That is my life.
Riccardo Tisci
#53. At the beginning, I didn't see what Givenchy could give my career. It was like, "Okay, I'll do it for the money for a few years to help my mom and my sisters."
Riccardo Tisci
#54. It is extraordinary to have time to again study Le nozze di Figaro and discover new things.
Riccardo Muti
#55. Music does not know the difference between people; it only speaks to their hearts. It is the only form of communication that can bring this terrible world together.
Riccardo Muti
#56. I think my heart is in a very good place. And I think this is why I'm achieving what I've been asking to do in the universe for so long.
Riccardo Tisci
#57. Even though I had a fantastic family, I always felt lonely - not lonely in the melancholic way but knowing that, to really survive, I have to do everything for myself. I had to work and study, and I was out in the street really surviving, bringing food back home.
Riccardo Tisci
#58. To leave Italy at 17 without money and go to a country like England is very rare; Italians stay with the family until 30, 35. But I couldn't stand to live in this box anymore. I was getting bigger, and the box was getting smaller.
Riccardo Tisci
#59. I suffered a lot when there was, like, a birthday party and I was not invited. Not because I was ugly or stupid; I was not invited because the parents would say to the kids, "Don't invite him, because he's poor and he comes from the south of Italy, and he can't give you nothing."
Riccardo Tisci
#60. My mom and my sisters were amazing; they always see the good in people. My mom, she doesn't know how to write and read much, but she's one of the most fantastic women I've met in my life.
Riccardo Tisci
#61. I've always been obsessed with things that are half animal and half human - like mermaids and Minotaurs - because they are trapped in an animal body. And I felt trapped in my own life.
Riccardo Tisci
#62. I don't want to bother them and ruin the party they are preparing so carefully at La Scala.
Riccardo Muti
#63. Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.
Riccardo Muti
#64. I try to destroy taboo in fashion-which is something I learned as a kid. I come from the street, and you have to be a survivor,
Riccardo Tisci
#65. Black is always elegant. It is the most complete colour in the whole world, made of all the colours in the palette.
Riccardo Tisci
#66. In the beginning I didn't want to do a menswear collection. It felt a little forced. And then I found that it was an amazing world.
Riccardo Tisci
#67. Meekness" is the word that is used to describe how to break a horse. It means "strength under control." That is who Jesus is; he is meek. He is the pure power of God, always under control. Everything he does, he does out of love.
John Riccardo
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