Alessandro Michele Quotes
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You have to be open to dreaming. It's a complicated language, but I'm obsessed with it.
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I always lose every single pencil I ever had. So I can draw with everything. With pencil, with pen.
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I think that fashion, for a long time, has been in a prison. Without freedom. I think that without freedom, with rules, it's impossible to create a new story.
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The way you dress is really the way you feel, the way you live, what you read, your choices. That's what I want to put into Gucci.
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I always explain through images and characters what fashion means, and describing scent is almost the same. It can be very powerful. It can really change the perspective a person has of you.
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For me, fashion is something that makes you feel alive, that expresses something of you: if you are sad, if you are happy.
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This is the power of fashion: the capability of allowing people to express themselves.
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My father was a shaman. He told me that time doesn't exist. He didn't use a clock. He didn't know when my birthday was.
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I don't have a problem to say I am a good merchandiser, because I love objects.
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Fashion is not about product; it's about an interesting idea that you can't resist buying into.
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I think if you work with different kinds of codes, attitudes, in the end you have a language. It's like within a person. You are not always the same.
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Beauty has no boundaries, no rules, no colors. Beauty is like a religion. You can include everything inside it.
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My idea for Gucci was crazy, but that's the only idea I had. I was sure I'd be fired after the first show.
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For me, nothing is old. I don't know why. If a dress is beautiful, and it's very personal, I think it can live forever.
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I love to come to L.A. because it's one of the most inspiring places because there are no rules.
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Luxury means that you show the way you dress with eccentricity.
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There is something special about the beauty in the unclear, the ambiguity, the in-between that you can't totally recognise.
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I have a lot of suits, but I'm not the kind of person who looks good in a suit. Suits are too serious for me. They are better if you can break the rules, so that's why I always try to add something crazy to them.
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I adore pink; it's very powerful. It makes you feel sweet and sexy, also if you are a man.
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The idea that a man should be wearing something different and more eccentric is obviously the oldest idea on earth.
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The way you dress is an expression of your personality.
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I love taking prints, embroidery, appliques - precious things that seem to be from another time - and using them to create a contemporary, new story.
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I had two different kind of parents. My mother was obsessive with movie stars and cinema and Hollywood because she worked in movies. And my father was obsessed with beauty everywhere - in art, in nature, animals.
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I love the English aesthetic; in a way, I feel it is close to my own, a beautiful chaos; it is a powerful mix of the past and the present.