Designer Quotes

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

I'm a working-class person, working with class.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing.

The world needs some excitement from fashion.

The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.

The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea.

Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.

Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.

In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.

If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second World War - they have all been creative reinventions, the moment new forms of luxury come into play.

If I was a fashion designer just following trends or designing for celebrities, I would not be fulfilled.

I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.

I never loved the world around me as it was.

I look for friends who make me laugh.