Alessandro Michele Quotes
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Fashion is the most beautiful illusion you can have.
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I really don't consider Kim Kardashian sexy. She's like one of those primordial sculptures of fertility, like the Venus of Willendorf.
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Vintage is my vocabulary... like the notes of a musician.
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The way you dress is an expression of your personality.
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The idea of my fashion shows is that you can't understand where you are; it's something surreal.
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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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My way to think about creation is like the end of the world. I love confusion. So music and image, picture, fabrics, people, person, talk: That's my way to work. And food. And perfumes. I love perfumes. And flowers and plants, and dresses and vintage.
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I have something inside of me that every day tells me that nature and beauty is the soul, the meaning, of our life. And I also love Hollywood and cinema.
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In fashion, people are very focused on the future, but I really love to talk about the present.
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It has been a marvellous experience and a great gift collaborating with Madonna. Now that I have had the chance to see her working, I truly understand why she is so grand! I believe she is a true artist, and I am crazy about her.
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I think a lot of people feel that they want something softer. Things are changing. It's about individuality, and in a way, it's romantic.
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The fragments for the past, for me, are not without life.
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In L.A., I feel God more than I do in a church.
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The future is not so interesting for me because the future doesn't exist. I am really focused on the contemporary.
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I like it when I see people dressed on the street, and it looks like Gucci, but it's not. It means you are doing something right.
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When I started to work at Gucci, I tried literally to destroy everything.
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The only urgency I feel is to keep on, at a slow pace, with my journey.
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If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.
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I adore the classical pieces of our culture. The Greek and Roman are still inside and everywhere; it's impossible to disconnect.
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I understand that people want to see just the posh side of fashion, but fashion is a lot of work.
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I think that there is not really a difference between a 'Peanuts' and a beautiful Renaissance painting. There is something very romantic in the 'Peanuts' - it's at the same level of a novel or a Jane Austen story or a beautiful embroidered rose fabric. It is a piece of romanticism.
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With a brand like Gucci, you have to give something that belongs to beautiful Italian culture in terms of craftsmanship and materials.
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I love to give voice to things that are not very visible.
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Your memory is not my memory.