Ginevra Elkann Quotes

I like taking different elements - clothes, shoes, lighting - and creating a total transformation. But it's never about hiding: it's about drawing something out from deep inside of me that's really true. I'm always trying really hard to tell you the truth. That's what this is all about for me.

It must be said that it is challenging to balance uncompromising artistic integrity with commercial requirements, but I've also come to learn that couture clients are adventurous and particularly unpredictable in their taste.

What I've been conscious of, from the beginning is that I can't be Jil Sander.

Anytime I shoot a video, I just think of anything I can do to set myself apart from everybody in the music industry.

You can instantly spot a Chanel woman, so I want to develop the Dior woman.

I'm a designer of more than clothes. I am a designer of a very creative concept.

I wouldn't want to do an average fashion line. I'd want it to be an amazing piece of art.

The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.

Everyone takes pictures, so you need to have your own opinion.

I'm an interior designer from the soul. It's not about just putting things in a room. It's much deeper and broader. It's about self-discovery.

I'm quite low-key - Isabel Marant is one of my favourite designers.

As in many other industries, the luxury fashion consumer increasingly desires to put a personal stamp on important purchases.

There is a voice, and there is a DNA to how I design.

I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.

I want to evolve each season. I never want to be one of those brands where people know what they're going to see. I always want an element of surprise. One thing I never want to do is copy what anybody else is doing. I have a signature, and it's very important to me to stay true to that.

In my personal life, I'm a huge fan of Carolina Herrera. I just think her stuff is timeless and classic.

I try to make my clothing line an entry point for discovering the substance of the rest of my work.

I've done my own videos, I do my own styling, so I feel like I've just always been a visual artist... I was one of those kids who wanted to make my own clothes and take pictures of everything. Everything inspired me, and everything felt like art around me.

When I wear Chanel, I feel like I'm not just wearing clothes: I'm wearing Chanel.

I can tell you every element of every single look from each collection - one to 30 - without looking at a picture: my label is all done by me.

With couture, the great thing is that each piece has its own character, and you have space to explore and continue themes season after season.

I'd always been acutely sensitive to my surroundings - and aware that I could make them rather than just observe them. So I began by designing interiors for myself, for friends, for clients - I just felt that I'd discovered my element, and those who really looked at what I was doing liked it - and the rest followed.

I have a particular taste, I do films according to it and promote it accordingly.

My sense is that you can make a film under almost any circumstances. As long as someone has a vague idea of what he's doing, something distinctive will emerge. That, to me, is what film making is all about.

In all my films, I have tried a different look.