Gianni Versace

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

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

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

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

Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.

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

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

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

I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.

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

Dont be into trends. Dont 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.

I want always to be positive.

I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married.

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

I want to be a designer for my time.

You dress elegant women. You dress sophisticated women. I dress sluts.

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 you live.

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.

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

I liked women as a shape to dress.

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 you live.

Dont be into trends. Dont 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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.

I never fall down. I always fight.

I don't license everywhere. I take care of my name.

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.

Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.

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.

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