Top 100 Versace's Quotes
#1. I just remember Stella Tenant and me dancing in Donatella Versace's bathtub until like four in the morning. It was one of those 'pinch me' moments.
Carolyn Murphy
#2. I was Versace's muse, I was Valentino's muse, I was Alaia's muse, Lancetti's muse, Calvin Klein's, Halston's. I could go on and on.
Janice Dickinson
#3. I love Versace; I love Donatella's vision! It still has that '90s supermodel vibe.
Behati Prinsloo
#4. 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.
Donatella Versace
#5. Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
M.I.A.
#6. For me the safety pin is about rebellion, and I'm punk in the soul.
Donatella Versace
#7. I think men know to seduce women though words and conversation and nice gestures. That's much sexier than when a man uses muscle.
Donatella Versace
#8. My main influence is - it's music. It lifts the spirit. I am always listening to music. And sometimes what inspires me is a little sound or some small arrangement. I really do listen to music continuously all day long - very loud, so people can't stand to be around me anymore.
Donatella Versace
#10. The man of the millennium is much more liberated than the man of the '90s.
Donatella Versace
#13. The first thing I really enjoy is to make love, after comes the music.
Gianni Versace
#14. After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.
Naomi Campbell
#15. How enlightened is wearing God like some do Versace?
Vanna Bonta
#16. It's no good being too easily swayed by people's opinions. You have to believe in yourself.
Donatella Versace
#17. 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.
Donatella Versace
#18. Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person.
Donatella Versace
#19. A lot of people would say 'sexy' is about the body. But to me, 'sexy' is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear.
Allegra Versace
#20. Versace was and still is about the sophisticated woman who is elegant, not afraid of her own sensuality, and not afraid to dare or take risks in life.
Nicki Minaj
#21. Some say the economy means that you have to persuade people to invest in clothes - to buy less things but more expensive things. I disagree - invest in jewelry, or a house, maybe, but not in fashion.
Donatella Versace
#22. 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.
Donatella Versace
#24. For so long Versace couture was identified with celebrities and music, which I love. But at the same time it could overwhelm the clothes.
Donatella Versace
#25. 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
#26. I find older men more attractive than boys. I need a man who can teach me a thing or two.
Donatella Versace
#27. 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.
Donatella Versace
#28. I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.
Gianni Versace
#29. I would never rep Versace. I can't stand her. I think she makes disgusting clothes. Calvin [Klein] is like, snore! Who wears Calvin Klein? I'm not dissing him. I think he's built an amazing, respectable business, but I would never want to work for Calvin Klein, ever.
Kelly Cutrone
#30. Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.
Donatella Versace
#31. 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.'
Donatella Versace
#32. 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.
Donatella Versace
#33. You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That's dangerous.
Donatella Versace
#34. I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.
Donatella Versace
#35. As I'm starting to grow up, and things are happening, I'm going to have to take off my pants, and I want to have on some attractive underwear. When it says Versace on your underwear, people will say, 'Man, he's fresh to his undies.'
Shameik Moore
#36. I used to switch up my cologne every two to three months, get a new wave - Dolce, Versace, Burberry. But Black Orchid, that joint stayed. That's the smell of beauty that stays on you ... and girls love Tom Ford.
Wale
#37. Let's just say beauty inspires me. But I like all beauty - I think it really comes from the inside out.
Donatella Versace
#38. Women's bodies are curvy, sensual, it's about being happy to be a woman - and sexy is always good
Donatella Versace
#39. 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.
Donatella Versace
#40. When my mother did fittings for her clients, I was hiding, looking at these beautiful ladies try on these fantastic clothes. I was dreaming as a small child to try these clothes on myself.
Donatella Versace
#41. Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life.
Donatella Versace
#42. Linda doesn't like to give out her cell number to "non-industry people," like the office workers at my high school, because she thinks she's Donatella Versace.
Matthew Quick
#43. 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.
Donatella Versace
#44. The first thing I do each morning is get out of bed and give my dog, Audrey, a hug. She's a Jack Russell. I think having an animal is a wonderful thing, particularly dogs. They are great levelers, there's no nonsense with them, and they just want simple affection.
Donatella Versace
#45. I always drew dresses. I remember loving Richard Avedon's early Versace campaigns. I used to plaster my whole walls with them when I was a kid.
Sarah Burton
#46. I don't think about making sexy clothes. It's just my instinct to make them.
Donatella Versace
#47. 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.
Donatella Versace
#48. 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.
Donatella Versace
#49. But I want to assure you, if it's your last day on earth, even after 2,000 years, I strongly suggest you go for the Versace leaf halter dress.
Richard Finney
#51. 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.
Donatella Versace
#53. You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can't expect years and years of it.
Donatella Versace
#54. 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.
Donatella Versace
#55. 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.
Donatella Versace
#56. In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.
Gianni Versace
#57. Something has to change in the world. Without change, young people will have no future.
Donatella Versace
#59. It's good to see the children be creative. It's the pleasure of the future.
Donatella Versace
#61. 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
#62. I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.
Gianni Versace
#63. I really want to make clothes that are feminine and help women look beautiful.
Gianni Versace
#64. My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.
Gianni Versace
#65. 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.
Donatella Versace
#66. I like to eat. Definitely. I love sitting around a table with my friends. But I don't know how to cook anything.
Donatella Versace
#68. 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
#69. 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.
Donatella Versace
#70. I've learned how to appreciate what I have. And it's a lot. I'm very lucky.
Donatella Versace
#71. A business woman needs a successful mix of design and practicality.
Donatella Versace
#72. 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.
Donatella Versace
#73. 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
#74. During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.
Donatella Versace
#76. Many young people don't know what Versace represent. I want to show what makes Versace an iconic brand.
Donatella Versace
#77. Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much.
Donatella Versace
#80. The three biggest fashion mistakes are cheap suits, shoes, and shirts. Spend your money on something good.
Donatella Versace
#81. 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.
Donatella Versace
#82. 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.
Donatella Versace
#83. Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.
Donatella Versace
#84. 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.
Donatella Versace
#87. Fashion goes with the feeling of the moment. It's related to movies, to art, to young people's taste.
Gianni Versace
#88. She looks like a librarian with some money and good taste in clothes, but underneath the Versace, she's Godzilla with tits.
Richard Kadrey
#89. 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.
Donatella Versace
#90. 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.
Donatella Versace
#91. 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.
Donatella Versace
#92. Other brands I like besides Versace ... Tom Ford makes incredible suits. I love the glasses as well. I have a plethora of Tom Ford shades. Who else do I like? Dolce & Gabbana, Dior Homme.
Trey Songz
#93. In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame.
Donatella Versace
#94. 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.
Donatella Versace
#95. Honest to god, Clare, you act like the dress is more important than you being shot!"
Of course it is! It's a Versace, you idiot! Bring help! I'm going to save this dress at all costs." - Sam to Clare
Katie MacAlister
#96. 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.
Donatella Versace
#97. 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
#98. Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.
Gianni Versace
#99. Versace has always been a brand that I've loved, a brand that has supported me. I've been wearing Versace for so long, I come in here and I have friends here, and they really support what it is that I do. Our partnership has been great.
Trey Songz
#100. The body should be reconfigured by the clothes, never again the other way round.
Donatella Versace
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