Versace Quotes

Glamour is back, but with a minimalist touch. ~ Gianni Versace

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. ~ Donatella Versace

Fashion is not frivolous. ~ Donatella Versace

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. ~ Gianni Versace

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life. For a while I lost mine. ~ Donatella Versace

I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff. ~ Lady Gaga

In my life I had no other choice than to become a strong person. ~ Donatella Versace

The suit does not represent the businessman anymore. Nor does the loud shirt represent the rock star. The same man can now wear both. ~ Donatella Versace

In fashion, only sexy won't go out of fashion. ~ Donatella Versace

I think my own look makes people think I'm tough, but when they get to know me I'm very different. ~ Donatella Versace

I do think that exercise is important, not only to keep you in shape but also for your state of mind. However, I am not fanatical about it. ~ Donatella Versace

Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! We love Versace. Versace is the greatest designer of all time! ~ Kanye West

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

The man of the millennium is much more liberated than the man of the '90s. ~ Donatella Versace

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

We shouldn't be copying what we see. We should try to find our own sense of style, to believe in ourselves. ~ Donatella Versace

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. ~ Donatella Versace

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

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. ~ Donatella Versace

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

I know who the Versace woman is, because I wear the clothes myself. ~ Donatella Versace

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

My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school. In kindergarten, they sent me home because I couldn't do finger painting in my dress. ~ Allegra Versace

I've spent some time working with a non-Italian designer; I've been helping him organize fashion shows, the advertising, also helping with the creative part. But the great part about this work is that I am no one! ~ Allegra 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 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

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

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

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

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

In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame. ~ Donatella Versace

The theme of counterfeits, of those that produce and sell them, has always been part of the culture of M.I.A. When I was contacted by Versace, it seemed a great idea to invert the circle. Versace's designs have always been copied; now it's Versace that copies the copies, so those that copy must copy the copies. So this will continue. ~ M.I.A.

On a hanger, no dress is sexy. It's just fabric on a hanger. ~ Donatella Versace

Plus-sized women shouldn't think of themselves as a size. They should think of themselves as women with rich goals in life. Size doesn't mean, really, anything. You can carry your size with pride and dress in a way that you like. ~ Donatella Versace

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

I have to have the sensibility to keep Versace company in good shape because there are so many people working for it, and we need to have the company grow and also be relevant. So I work very hard for all that to happen, and I wish people would know me for that and be satisfied. ~ Nicki Minaj

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

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. ~ Donatella Versace

You can be too boring, but you can never be too seductive. ~ Donatella Versace

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

I'd need an incredibly talented make up artist to make me look natural! ~ Donatella 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

A business woman needs a successful mix of design and practicality. ~ Donatella Versace

Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine. ~ Donatella Versace

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

Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are ~ Gianni Versace

I want to be the joy to people through my work. ~ Gianni Versace

I wake up at about the same time every day. I sleep well and wake without an alarm clock. ~ Donatella Versace

You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can't expect years and years of it. ~ Donatella Versace

I think glamour all the time. I wake up in the morning and I'm already thinking glamour. ~ Donatella Versace

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

My goal in a couple of years is to try to build a successful fashion house like Armani or Versace. I want that more than anything. ~ Serena Williams

Fashion needs fresh blood, and London is the most creative place for that. ~ Donatella Versace

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas ~ Donatella Versace

I love Yves Saint Laurent. I love Chanel. And Versace! Such beautiful gowns! ~ Tamala Jones

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

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

After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela. ~ Naomi Campbell

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. ~ Donatella Versace

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Donatella Versace

I want to be a designer for my time. ~ Gianni Versace

The body should be reconfigured by the clothes, never again the other way round. ~ Donatella Versace

We all retire one day. If we want to, if we don't want to. ~ Donatella Versace

I don't think about making sexy clothes. It's just my instinct to make them. ~ Donatella Versace

I always wear high heels - I simply feel naked without them. ~ Donatella Versace

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

I love Versace; I love Donatella's vision! It still has that '90s supermodel vibe. ~ Behati Prinsloo

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 ~ Donatella Versace

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

How do I keep young? Haven't you heard? I sleep every night in the deep freezer! ~ Donatella Versace

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

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

I think sex is part of life, like eating and breathing. ~ Donatella Versace

New York is full of creative people, not only in fashion. ~ Donatella Versace

I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast ... We have to change. ~ 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 don't like my physique at all. ~ Donatella Versace

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

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

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. ~ Donatella Versace

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

Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much. ~ Donatella Versace

Something has to change in the world. Without change, young people will have no future. ~ Donatella Versace

Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live. ~ Gianni Versace

I find older men more attractive than boys. I need a man who can teach me a thing or two. ~ Donatella Versace

I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body. ~ Gianni Versace

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

Fashion goes with the feeling of the moment. It's related to movies, to art, to young people's taste. ~ Gianni Versace

How enlightened is wearing God like some do Versace? ~ Vanna Bonta

It's no good being too easily swayed by people's opinions. You have to believe in yourself. ~ Donatella Versace

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

She looks like a librarian with some money and good taste in clothes, but underneath the Versace, she's Godzilla with tits. ~ Richard Kadrey

Versace pythons. Louis Aviators. Balenciagas & they gotta be the gladiators. ~ Nicki Minaj

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

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

Designing came to me. I didn't have to move. ~ Gianni Versace