Lapo Elkann Quotes

The Royal Family doesn't go out shopping for their uniforms: they've got some guy sewing on all the ornaments in-house. You could say I've got my own in-house team as well.

Real luxury is customization.

Everything I wear is custom made.

My clients can choose their own colours and fabrics to have something unique in their wardrobes.

I like to paint my own helmets. I design my own suit and boots, I like being unique in that way.

I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.

Fashion is chaotic, and it can be an aggravation, too, but it is at its best when it allows you to express yourself.

It really comes down to fit. When it comes to a suit, for example, it's important that the shoulders fit you well; the length of the pants are important. That kind of shows me right away if you're into it or if you don't care. If they get the shoulders right, you know that they have some sort of interest in getting a good look.

Twitter is a place where you share your thoughts, yourself... you don't want a plain white backdrop for that. You want the entire page to say something about who you are. Designer or not, if the urge strikes you, go for it. Put up that watercolor you've never shown anyone. Take a photo of that hat you just knitted... whatever it is, share it.

A tattoo doesn't make you look like an individual.

I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's.

I always hang things on my bags because I don't like them looking like everyone else's.

I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.

I so often heard from women that they saw this beautiful fashion, but it didn't always work for them - whether it was cultural reasons, lifestyle reasons, body type reasons. So it seemed like in my mind there was a gap there, that women really wanted to be able to customize items to fit their needs and their tastes.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

Design is a very personal thing. It's like art. Your personal choice plays a big role.

I think I get almost every piece of clothing that I buy altered and taken in just to fit me exactly the way it should.

I like certain pieces monogrammed because it gives my closet and home warmth - it's just something that you could really feel comfortable with. It's yours; it's something personal. I do it for fun.

Everything is customised, from my watches to my phone. I like my things to be different.

Let's look different! I like monster movies, so why can't I have Godzilla's face on my boots?

The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure.

When I started in the league, I went to a tailor and told him I wanted long t-shirts. But they were like, "You know, you don't know what the trend is." I was like, "Look dog, I don't care about trends or your fashion sense. If I'm going to pay you money, this is where the shirt is going to end."

If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.

Treat them all the same by treating them differently.

Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others.