During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.
Donatella Versace
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Donatella Versace has been a renegade. Just an incredible, artistic person.
BEBE REXHA I love Versace; I love Donatella's vision! It still has that '90s supermodel vibe.
BEHATI PRINSLOO Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.
KIRK HAMMETT There was heavy smoke and a lot of confusion and very elderly persons laying on the roadway -- eight...
DON PERITZ (It's) like a Parisian punkette. You know, originally the punk (were) English so it's the French ver...
JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER I just remember Stella Tenant and me dancing in Donatella Versace's bathtub until like four in t...
CAROLYN MURPHY My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic.
EVA GREEN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The three biggest fashion mistakes are cheap suits, shoes, and shirts. Spend your money on something...
DONATELLA VERSACE I'm like a little kid when it comes to music. I mean, the music is always blasting wherever I am...
DONATELLA VERSACE I have worked with wool all my life as a designer. There's so much more to it than knitwear - it...
DONATELLA VERSACE My style is not that big. I wear heels, tight pants, and I wear diamonds.
DONATELLA VERSACE I like perfume and flowers.
DONATELLA VERSACE Fashion is about dreaming and making other people dream.
DONATELLA VERSACE The suit does not represent the businessman anymore. Nor does the loud shirt represent the rock star...
DONATELLA VERSACE Scent is very important. Strong fragrances suit some men, while citrus types suit others. I like my ...
DONATELLA VERSACE I don't see anybody categorized as a 'fashion diva,' except for me! And I like that. I a...
DONATELLA VERSACE My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, a...
DONATELLA VERSACE The first thing I do each morning is get out of bed and give my dog, Audrey, a hug. She's a Jack...
DONATELLA VERSACE When I work, I wear pants usually because I want to be comfortable. I wear dark colors, especially i...
DONATELLA VERSACE Some men look great unshaven; others just look like they forgot to shave. Beards and mustaches can b...
DONATELLA VERSACE People are always surprised when they spend time with my children by how normal they are. They'r...
DONATELLA VERSACE You couldn't define the '80s when the '80s were happening. We kept changing. We had shou...
DONATELLA VERSACE Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She...
DONATELLA VERSACE I think men know to seduce women though words and conversation and nice gestures. That's much se...
DONATELLA VERSACE I think glamour all the time. I wake up in the morning and I'm already thinking glamour.
DONATELLA VERSACE I do think that exercise is important, not only to keep you in shape but also for your state of mind...
DONATELLA VERSACE How do I keep young? Haven't you heard? I sleep every night in the deep freezer!
DONATELLA VERSACE Powerful women intimidate men. If she's a really well-known woman, she has a career, she's f...
DONATELLA VERSACE If I could dress anyone, I'd like to dress the Queen - she can handle anything. I'd put her ...
DONATELLA VERSACE I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.
DONATELLA VERSACE My favorite pantsuit is done in cherry color and all this is a very classic fabric with, like, a bu...
DONATELLA VERSACE I have an image of what a British gentleman looks like, and that image finds real expression in Prin...
DONATELLA VERSACE A business woman needs a successful mix of design and practicality.
DONATELLA VERSACE I love the mix of people who hang out at nightclubs now. Their individuality is an inspiration to me...
DONATELLA VERSACE I find older men more attractive than boys. I need a man who can teach me a thing or two.
DONATELLA VERSACE There are too many beautiful and talented women ?and let's not forget the men ? to choose from.
DONATELLA VERSACE I go from a full working day to making sure I am home for dinner with my kids. I couldn't do that in...
DONATELLA VERSACE (Demi) is a woman who has kids, who has a career and still looks amazing first thing in the morning....
DONATELLA VERSACE My favorite pantsuit is done in cherry color and all this is a very classic
fabric with, like,...
DONATELLA VERSACE Color is important in this collection, but in a different way,
DONATELLA VERSACE this fabric existed, but in different colors, darker, masculine -- like black and yellow. So we deci...
DONATELLA VERSACE [Evening wear is glamorous, but in] a more approachable way, ... In this collection, you're not goin...
DONATELLA VERSACE [Due later this month, Britney Spears' bouncing baby boy (supposedly, that's what she's expecting) w...
DONATELLA VERSACE I love London - it has so much energy.
DONATELLA VERSACE For so long Versace couture was identified with celebrities and music, which I love. But at the same...
DONATELLA VERSACE I know who the Versace woman is, because I wear the clothes myself.
DONATELLA VERSACE Many young people don't know what Versace represent. I want to show what makes Versace an iconic...
DONATELLA VERSACE I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion.
DONATELLA VERSACE You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a ...
DONATELLA VERSACE Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.
DONATELLA VERSACE She needs a vacation. She's worked so so hard for so many years. She's a young girl and she's a litt...
DONATELLA VERSACE Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it c...
DONATELLA VERSACE It's no good being too easily swayed by people's opinions. You have to believe in yourself.
DONATELLA VERSACE I understand that the rule of fashion is to change, even as a successful designer - you do not want ...
DONATELLA VERSACE Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life.
DONATELLA VERSACE Plus-sized women shouldn't think of themselves as a size. They should think of themselves as wom...
DONATELLA VERSACE In my life I had no other choice than to become a strong person.
DONATELLA VERSACE I love anyone who breaks the rules, and musicians always break the rules - in an aggressive way.
DONATELLA VERSACE I always wear high heels - I simply feel naked without them.
DONATELLA VERSACE In mythology, the Medusa can petrify people with a look - which is a good thing, I think. But the Me...
DONATELLA VERSACE Fashion needs fresh blood, and London is the most creative place for that.
DONATELLA VERSACE In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life. For a while I lost mine.
DONATELLA VERSACE I've learned how to appreciate what I have. And it's a lot. I'm very lucky.
DONATELLA VERSACE Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.
DONATELLA VERSACE Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.
DONATELLA VERSACE It's very important for a brand to have an identity through the years, but it's very importa...
DONATELLA VERSACE Fashion is a weapon that you can use when you need it.
DONATELLA VERSACE I'm fascinated by people in their eighties and nineties. Especially those who are still creating...
MORRISSEY The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy wh...
FRANK YERBY You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur
KARL LAGERFELD The bourgeois are other people.
JULES RENARD Growing up in the eighties, you could go from one style in a movie to another style, and that was ok...
ALEXANDRE AJA I'm not chic, I could never be chic.
SID VICIOUS I'm not chic, I could never be chic.
SID VICIOUS It's half Versace and half Dolce & Gabbana.
ANTHONY CALLEA By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards ...
PETER YORK Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bo...
M.I.A. To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois
JULES RENARD It is important to be chic.
ROBERTO CAVALLI During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eightie...
FLORENCE KING I like to dress pretty basic during the day, but with a sophisticated bohemian spin, and sometimes a...
ALESSANDRA AMBROSIO Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the anti-bourgeois kind of bourgeois.
EUGENE IONESCO Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, y...
CARLA BRUNI All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just musi...
OZZY OSBOURNE Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was...
ROBERTO CAVALLI My first year, people were interested in me because I was new. Then the press started to come.
VALENTINO GARAVANI I am always locked in my design studio.
VALENTINO GARAVANI I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion.
VALENTINO GARAVANI I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
VALENTINO GARAVANI There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.
VALENTINO GARAVANI I like things simple.
VALENTINO GARAVANI I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of th...
VALENTINO GARAVANI I hope people will say, 'Mr. Valentino, he did something for fashion, no?'
VALENTINO GARAVANI I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the year...
VALENTINO GARAVANI I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and st...
VALENTINO GARAVANI I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
VALENTINO GARAVANI Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I ha...
VALENTINO GARAVANI I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the...
VALENTINO GARAVANI
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DONATELLA VERSACE I have worked with wool all my life as a designer. There's so much more to it than knitwear - it...
DONATELLA VERSACE My style is not that big. I wear heels, tight pants, and I wear diamonds.
DONATELLA VERSACE I like perfume and flowers.
DONATELLA VERSACE Fashion is about dreaming and making other people dream.
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DONATELLA VERSACE Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She...
DONATELLA VERSACE I think men know to seduce women though words and conversation and nice gestures. That's much se...
DONATELLA VERSACE I think glamour all the time. I wake up in the morning and I'm already thinking glamour.
DONATELLA VERSACE I do think that exercise is important, not only to keep you in shape but also for your state of mind...
DONATELLA VERSACE How do I keep young? Haven't you heard? I sleep every night in the deep freezer!
DONATELLA VERSACE Powerful women intimidate men. If she's a really well-known woman, she has a career, she's f...
DONATELLA VERSACE If I could dress anyone, I'd like to dress the Queen - she can handle anything. I'd put her ...
DONATELLA VERSACE I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.
DONATELLA VERSACE My favorite pantsuit is done in cherry color and all this is a very classic fabric with, like, a bu...
DONATELLA VERSACE I have an image of what a British gentleman looks like, and that image finds real expression in Prin...
DONATELLA VERSACE A business woman needs a successful mix of design and practicality.
DONATELLA VERSACE I love the mix of people who hang out at nightclubs now. Their individuality is an inspiration to me...
DONATELLA VERSACE I find older men more attractive than boys. I need a man who can teach me a thing or two.
DONATELLA VERSACE There are too many beautiful and talented women ?and let's not forget the men ? to choose from.
DONATELLA VERSACE I go from a full working day to making sure I am home for dinner with my kids. I couldn't do that in...
DONATELLA VERSACE (Demi) is a woman who has kids, who has a career and still looks amazing first thing in the morning....
DONATELLA VERSACE My favorite pantsuit is done in cherry color and all this is a very classic
fabric with, like,...
DONATELLA VERSACE Color is important in this collection, but in a different way,
DONATELLA VERSACE this fabric existed, but in different colors, darker, masculine -- like black and yellow. So we deci...
DONATELLA VERSACE [Evening wear is glamorous, but in] a more approachable way, ... In this collection, you're not goin...
DONATELLA VERSACE [Due later this month, Britney Spears' bouncing baby boy (supposedly, that's what she's expecting) w...
DONATELLA VERSACE I love London - it has so much energy.
DONATELLA VERSACE For so long Versace couture was identified with celebrities and music, which I love. But at the same...
DONATELLA VERSACE I know who the Versace woman is, because I wear the clothes myself.
DONATELLA VERSACE Many young people don't know what Versace represent. I want to show what makes Versace an iconic...
DONATELLA VERSACE I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion.
DONATELLA VERSACE You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a ...
DONATELLA VERSACE Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.
DONATELLA VERSACE She needs a vacation. She's worked so so hard for so many years. She's a young girl and she's a litt...
DONATELLA VERSACE Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it c...
DONATELLA VERSACE It's no good being too easily swayed by people's opinions. You have to believe in yourself.
DONATELLA VERSACE I understand that the rule of fashion is to change, even as a successful designer - you do not want ...
DONATELLA VERSACE Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life.
DONATELLA VERSACE Plus-sized women shouldn't think of themselves as a size. They should think of themselves as wom...
DONATELLA VERSACE In my life I had no other choice than to become a strong person.
DONATELLA VERSACE I love anyone who breaks the rules, and musicians always break the rules - in an aggressive way.
DONATELLA VERSACE I always wear high heels - I simply feel naked without them.
DONATELLA VERSACE In mythology, the Medusa can petrify people with a look - which is a good thing, I think. But the Me...
DONATELLA VERSACE Fashion needs fresh blood, and London is the most creative place for that.
DONATELLA VERSACE In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life. For a while I lost mine.
DONATELLA VERSACE I've learned how to appreciate what I have. And it's a lot. I'm very lucky.
DONATELLA VERSACE Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.
DONATELLA VERSACE Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.
DONATELLA VERSACE It's very important for a brand to have an identity through the years, but it's very importa...
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GIANNI VERSACE I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married.
GIANNI VERSACE Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing ...
GIANNI VERSACE I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.
GIANNI VERSACE That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion...
GIANNI VERSACE I want to see my niece and nephew grow up, to see their children... I get crazy at the idea that a t...
GIANNI VERSACE Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.
GIANNI VERSACE I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.
GIANNI VERSACE That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you...
GIANNI VERSACE You dress elegant women. You dress sophisticated women. I dress sluts.
GIANNI VERSACE My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.
GIANNI VERSACE I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.
GIANNI VERSACE It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better.
GIANNI VERSACE A lot of devore fabric, see-through. (It) is a kind of collection you can combine in a different way...
GIANNI VERSACE Glamour is back, but with a minimalist touch.
GIANNI VERSACE (It's) irregular (and) cut in a different way.
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GIANNI VERSACE My fantasy is to leave options for women -- to make their individuality come out, to try to accompli...
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GIANNI VERSACE I want to be a designer for my time.
GIANNI VERSACE Comfort is very important to me. I think people live better in big houses and in big clothes.
GIANNI VERSACE Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.
GIANNI VERSACE I don't license everywhere. I take care of my name.
GIANNI VERSACE I liked women as a shape to dress.
GIANNI VERSACE I really want to make clothes that are feminine and help women look beautiful.
GIANNI VERSACE I want always to be positive.
GIANNI VERSACE I never fall down. I always fight.
GIANNI VERSACE I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.
GIANNI VERSACE I want to be the joy to people through my work.
GIANNI VERSACE I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change.
GIANNI VERSACE I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.
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