Alessandro Michele Quotes

You have to be open to dreaming. It's a complicated language, but I'm obsessed with it.

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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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  • Time
  • Father
  • Birthday

• 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 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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  • Time
  • Long
  • Freedom

• 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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  • Live
  • Choices

• 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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  • Fashion
  • Powerful
  • Perspective

• I adore pink; it's very powerful. It makes you feel sweet and sexy, also if you are a man.

  

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  • Powerful
  • Sweet
  • Sexy

• This is the power of fashion: the capability of allowing people to express themselves.

  

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  • People
  • Power
  • Fashion

• 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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  • Crazy

• Vintage is my vocabulary... like the notes of a musician.

  

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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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  • Interesting
  • Fashion

• Beauty has no boundaries, no rules, no colors. Beauty is like a religion. You can include everything inside it.

  

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• Luxury means that you show the way you dress with eccentricity.

  

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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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  • Work
  • Different

• I always lose every single pencil I ever had. So I can draw with everything. With pencil, with pen.

  

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  • Single

• 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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  • Live
  • Why
  • Beautiful

• 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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  • Good
  • Why
  • Crazy

• 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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  • Happy
  • Fashion
  • Sad

• 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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• The idea that a man should be wearing something different and more eccentric is obviously the oldest idea on earth.

  

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  • Different
  • Earth

• The way you dress is an expression of your personality.

  

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  • Personality

• 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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  • Time

• If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.

  

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  • Sleep
  • Creativity

• I don't have a problem to say I am a good merchandiser, because I love objects.

  

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  • Good

• You have to be open to dreaming. It's a complicated language, but I'm obsessed with it.

  

  Alessandro Michele