Alessandro Michele Quotes

My obsession is to make women beautiful. When you create with that in mind, things can't go out of fashion.

Fashion is OK for five days, one minute, six months, but style is for the rest of the life.

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.

If fashion is good, it has no epoch.

Beauty can come in strange forms.

It's not that I find it hard to meet girls - they do come up and chat me up from time to time. Sometimes I'm interested, I tend not to go for the prettier ones. I prefer the quirkier types.

There's nothing classic about what's around now. I am a bit old-school. There are some things that are never out of fashion because they just look good. But if you want classic style these days you have to get it made.

Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani - women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn't submit to any standard of beauty - they defined it.

I like smudgy black eyes and pale lips for evening. Red lipstick looks great on other girls, but it's too much on me.

Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics.

Famously, Anne Boleyn was not a beauty: she was more about quirkiness and an innate sensuality, and there are a lot of references to her eyes. Which sends out a great message for women, because life is not about the aesthetic all the time.

I like to play unattractive people who think they're pretty. You can do what you want, but I prefer to look interesting.

I want my shows to be very classic and timeless.

Stick to the classics, and you can't ever go wrong. I see old ladies on the street who have fabulous style and realize it's because they are probably wearing really classic items that they've had for years and years. I think if you find something that suits you, you should just stick to it.

I don't go by trends. I wear what I am comfortable in and what suits me. It is never about what is 'in' and what is 'out'. My personal sense of style spells 'comfort'.

I want to be seen as a classic model.

Back in the days of Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis, beauty wasn't the be-all and end-all it is today.

Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.

I have always had an interest in fashion and design and I appreciate style and timelessness within my footwear and accessories both on and off the court.

Part of what I have to represent is an alternative to this perverted fashion industry concept of what beauty is.

I don't think there were great beauty trends in the '90s - I was just doing my own thing.

I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.

I like people who have their own quirky style. I'm not really attracted to typically good looking men.

I'm certainly not in the business of making anything or anyone seem avant-garde. I make them feel beautiful.