Famous quotes by Designers

"You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That's dangerous"

"It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it"

"In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame"

"I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion"

"Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas"

"Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much"

"Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine"

"I like perfume and flowers"

"Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person"

"September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world"

"I had always been intrigued by the emotional aspect of adventure gaming-the fact that people get so personally involved"

"Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand"

"When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens"

"Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?"

"Gianni created the whole thing. I came later and helped him"

"I don't like my physique at all"

"When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen"

"We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?"

"There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny"

"The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that"

"Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially"

"Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life"

"Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual"

"L.A. is my American city"

"If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment"

"I'm a very serious person"

"I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us"

"From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important"

"College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity"

"As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded"