Andrea Della Valle Quotes

Around the year 2000, businesses around the country went 'business casual.'

When I was out of favor and people didn't want that type of boot, flats, or high heels with the elegant, dainty things, it gave me much more energy.

Ready-to-wear is what I've wanted to do since the beginning. ... I'm not a girl who spends my life in a ballgown

I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school.

Fashion changes. Everyone in fashion changes. I think it's important to change it up and reinvent yourself every now and again.

I really have a generation gap about modern clothes.

In high school, girls started wearing high-waisted pants with their shirts tucked into them. I don't get what that's about.

With fashion, it's all about timing and holding out for the right thing.

I have a strong appreciation for oversize sweatshirts, loose mohair sweaters, and jeans that are frayed at the ankles.

I enjoy different designers for different seasons and what they bring to it each and every season.

I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.

The thing I most love and hate about fashion is that it changes all the time. But I don't think I or anyone else can singlehandedly get rid of hooker style. Popular taste isn't great by definition. It's just popular.

I've never wanted to be in fashion. Because if you're in fashion, you're going to be out of fashion.

Everyone's showing their thong out the back of their jeans. But you shouldn't wear any. You get a better line if you wear no knickers.

I'm not a fashionista. I don't have much experience in that world.

Half of the people in this room are more dressed up than on any other day in the year, and the other half are more dressed down.

The nice thing about the fashion industry is that you're constantly working on something new.

Fashion ... has brought every thing into vogue, by turns.

I think it's important that there is a change, especially in fashion.

Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.

My mission was that I wanted to see people on the street that I don't know wearing my clothes. That excites me.

Whether I'm at a dinner with Anna Wintour or a listening party with Pusha T or in Rome with Virgil (Abloh, his style adviser) giving Fendi our designs and getting them knocked down... we brought the leather jogging pants six years ago to Fendi, and they said no. How many m*****f***ers you done seen with a leather jogging pant?

People tend to believe that good fortune consists of equal parts talent, hard work, and sheer luck. It's hard to deny the roles of the latter two. As to talent, I would only say it consists primarily in finding the right moment to step in.

I don't know if that's new, but it has become very official over the past 25 or 30 years - and today it's probably at its most extreme point, where sometimes collections look more like a stylist's work than a designer's signature.

It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.