1. “I really want to make clothes that are feminine and help women look beautiful.” – Gianni Versace
2. “I liked women as a shape to dress.” – Gianni Versace
3. “One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.” – Gianni Versace
4. “I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.” – Gianni Versace
5. “I design for the woman who loves being a woman.” – Gianni Versace
6. “I don’t believe in good taste — I believe in a luxurious taste.” – Gianni Versace
7. “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.” – Gianni Versace
8. “Comfort is very important to me. I think people live better in big houses and in big clothes.” – Gianni Versace
9. “Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are.” – Gianni Versace
10. “I want always to be positive.” – Gianni Versace
11. “I want to be a designer for my time.” – Gianni Versace
12. “In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.” – Gianni Versace
13. “I think it’s the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.” – Gianni Versace
14. “My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.” – Gianni Versace
15. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Gianni Versace
16. “I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.” – Gianni Versace
17. “I think that is the ultimate luxury, to feel good about yourself and to make the most of what you have.” – Gianni Versace
18. “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.” – Gianni Versace
19. “It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better.” – Gianni Versace
20. “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.” – Gianni Versace
21. “I never fall down. I always fight.” – Gianni Versace
22. “It is often difficult for people to perceive that a designer can be so deeply involved in the creation of every single detail, and I am so deeply involved.” – Gianni Versace
23. “I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don’t think about getting married.” – Gianni Versace
24. “Luxury is anything you don’t need, right? I mean, you need food, water, clothing, shelter… but chocolate, you have to survive, spiritual and emotional issues, it’s all luxury, it’s just how you look at it.” – Gianni Versace
25. “Glamour is back, but with a minimalist touch.” – Gianni Versace
26. “Fashion needs incredible women, alive, stimulating, with style like Diana Vreeland. She is the most. The way she talks expresses all her values.” – Gianni Versace
27. “Women are more sure of themselves today. They don’t have to emulate the way men dress.” – Gianni Versace
28. “I don’t license everywhere. I take care of my name.” – Gianni Versace
29. “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.” – Gianni Versace
30. “Fashion and music are the same, because music expresses its period too.” – Gianni Versace
31. “My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I’m collecting.” – Gianni Versace
32. “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.” – Gianni Versace
33. “Fashion goes with the feeling of the moment. It’s related to movies, to art, to young people’s taste.” – Gianni Versace
34. “Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.” – Gianni Versace
35. “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.” – Gianni Versace
36. “You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur.” – Gianni Versace
37. “I’m not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.” – Gianni Versace
38. “The first thing I really enjoy is to make love, after comes the music.” – Gianni Versace
39. “I love photography and art-directing is something that I really would enjoy to do.” – Gianni Versace
40. “I want to be the joy to people through my work.” – Gianni Versace
41. “I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.” – Gianni Versace
42. “I am a lover of life, and for many years I have searched for the best way to prolong it.” – Gianni Versace
43. “Designing came to me. I didn’t have to move.” – Gianni Versace
44. “The living man, not the sky, is the architect of his own destiny.” – Gianni Versace
45. “When I designed my collections, I was careful not to be influenced by the past.” – Gianni Versace
46. “I’m a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.” – Gianni Versace
47. “Fashion is frivolous, and many people keep it at arms distance and are slightly ashamed of it. But it’s full of glamour and open to all.” – Gianni Versace
48. “I love the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.” – Gianni Versace
49. “Fashion is all about happiness. It’s fun. It’s important. But it’s not medicine.” – Gianni Versace
50. “I believe in the power of artistic contrasts.” – Gianni Versace
51. “Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.” – Gianni Versace
52. “I want to create the basic wardrobe of a man — not necessarily a different man, but a better dresser.” – Gianni Versace
53. “I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.” – Gianni Versace