36+ Gianni Versace Quotes

Gianni Versace was a fashion designer and businessman born in Reggio Calabria, Italy.

Gianni Versace, a native of Reggio Calabria, established Versace, a global luxury fashion house that deals with accessories, perfumes, cosmetics, home furnishings, and clothes. Gianni Versace knew prominent celebrities such as Eric Clapton, Naomi Campbell, Princess Diana.

He was among the first designers who linked fashion with the world of music. In 1978, Gianni Versace established his first boutique in Milan. In 1993, Versace received the American Fashion Oscar for his innovative and eye-catching designs, costumes, and home furnishings. Versace's fashion designs were well-known across the world for their elegant classicism and undisguised illustration of femininity. The brand's ads featured celebrities such as Linda Evangelista and Naomi Campbell, among others.

Versace designed costumes for a varied range of artists and productions for both movies and theater. During the '80s, he designed costumes for five different ballet productions. Here is a collection of famous fashion designer, Gianni Versace's quotes to make you feel inspired and delighted.

"I love very much the night after every fashion show when I have all those invitations to parties and I stay quiet at home by myself."

"I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers."

"I hate the traffic over there. Why don't they start to build moving pathways to replace all the streets? I see New York in a very futuristic way, but they must do something new."

"Comfort is very important to me. I think people live better in big houses and in big clothes."

"I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future."

"I really want to make clothes that are feminine and help women look beautiful."

"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 liked women as a shape to dress."

"It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better."

"I want to be the joy to people through my work."

"I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body."

"I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married."

"I love photography and art-directing is something that I really would enjoy to do."

"I watch women continuously. I want them to look beautiful, I am not interested in making them funny, but just beautiful. They have got to look marvelous to please their own men."

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Being a fashion designer, Gianni Versace has stated several iconic quotes about fashion, clothes, glamour, beauty, and women. He has not restricted his creativity to fashion designing but has also ventured into textile designing, houseware, jewelry, and home furnishings.

"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."

"Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live."

"Do not go into trends. Do not allow fashion take you over, choose who you want to be and what do you want to show with your clothes and lifestyle."

"Fashion goes with the feeling of the moment. It’s related to movies, to art, to young people’s taste."

"Fashion needs incredible women, alive, stimulating, with style like Diana Vreeland. She is the most. The way she talks expresses all her values."

"Perfume puts the finishing touch to elegance - a detail that subtly underscores the look, an invisible extra that completes a man and a woman's personality. Without it there is something missing."

"My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily."

"Designing came to me. I didn't have to move."

"Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress."

"A lot of devore fabric, see-through. (It) is a kind of collection you can combine in a different way."

"What women need today is classic things with an age, with fantasy, with a quality. Dresses you can live with. Sometimes it's the fabrics who win, sometimes it's the shape, but I always rework on themes that make Versace a classic name with serenity."

Gianni was a designer who took inspiration from various cultures and art movement motifs in his designs, like his famous Graeco-Roman art-inspired dresses. To make you look dapper and chill, here are classy Gianni Versace quotes to dazzle you.

"For me, the summer will be pure gray - mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big statement for summer. Then we have light blue, light turquoise, lots of pink."

"Glamour is back, but with a minimalist touch."

"I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom."

"I want to be a designer for my time."

"I never fall down. I always fight."

"I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures."

"I don't license everywhere. I take care of my name."

"I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change."

"In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do."

"My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I’m collecting."

"The first thing I really enjoy is to make love, after comes the music."

"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."