Gianni Versace
Gianni Versace
Gianni Versacewas an Italian fashion designer and founder of Versace, an international fashion house, which produces accessories, fragrances, make-up and home furnishings as well as clothes. He also designed costumes for the theatre and films. As a friend of Eric Clapton, Diana, Princess of Wales, Naomi Campbell, Madonna, Elton John, Cher, Sting and many other celebrities, he was the first designer to link fashion to the music world. Openly gay, Versace and his partner Antonio D'Amico were regulars on the...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth2 December 1946
CityReggio Calabria, Italy
CountryItaly
Gianni Versace quotes about
Fashion goes with the feeling of the moment. It's related to movies, to art, to young people's taste.
In those days, when I was a little kid, I met the truer more authentic people of my life. The men were so pure, strong, honest, and faithful unto death - with an incredible sense of respect for a boss.
The first thing I really enjoy is to make love, after comes the music.
Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.
I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.
My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.
It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better.
I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change.
I never fall down. I always fight.
Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.
In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.
I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.
I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.
That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.