Donatella Versace Quotes
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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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Fashion is not frivolous.
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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.
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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.
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I like to eat. Definitely. I love sitting around a table with my friends. But I don't know how to cook anything.
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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.
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In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame.
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You can never forget the time you're living in because the past is the past and it will never come back. So to adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you're living in is the most important thing.
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Hollywood is a very inspiring place.
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I know who the Versace woman is, because I wear the clothes myself.
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Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring.
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I was a fashion addict by the time I was 11 years old. I'd wear a miniskirt and patent-leather boots.
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For me the safety pin is about rebellion, and I'm punk in the soul.
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In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life.
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In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life. For a while I lost mine.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.
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I like perfume and flowers.
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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.