Donatella Versace Quotes
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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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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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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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My style is not that big. I wear heels, tight pants, and I wear diamonds.
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To define the era we live in is very difficult. How do we define it? We define it by music.
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On a hanger, no dress is sexy. It's just fabric on a hanger.
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The man of the millennium is much more liberated than the man of the '90s.
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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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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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You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can't expect years and years of it.
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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.
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I've learned how to appreciate what I have. And it's a lot. I'm very lucky.
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I don't like my physique at all.
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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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I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.
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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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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.
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For me, music gives a voice to fashion.
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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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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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I think people need to see Prince live to really understand how remarkable he is.
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I love anyone who breaks the rules, and musicians always break the rules - in an aggressive way.
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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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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.