Gianni Versace Quotes

The idea of being a designer is always something that has intrigued me.

I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.

I studied literature design and fashion design.

I gravitated towards the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.

I only do what I do. For me, it is a craft. It's got to be my own thing - otherwise, I would never be successful. I could easily go to the archives and pull 1987 or 1991 collection by Calvin Klein. But when you look in there, you realize that it was never about one piece. It was about the collections as bodies of work.

I don't really have one style; I just choose what I like best each time.

I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I'm interested in or in the way I structure a canvas.

I really don't think of my work in terms of a genre. I think of it in terms of what I want to say, what I think is cool, and what I'm good at.

I was a baby when I began, but I knew exactly what I wanted to wear myself. I became a jewelry designer because I knew how to do something with a pencil and sketch my ideas.

I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.

Design my own line? No, I just like the culture.

There were a series of moments when I decided that art was important, and it was an important vehicle for me to express my interest in spaces.

I'm really interested in fashion but at the same time I find it quite competitive. Second-hand stuff leaves you more open to whatever your own personal style is rather than feeling dictated to by shops.

I'm an artist, and I love the visual. Fashion is high art sometimes and hack work other times, but it's something worthy of study and love.

If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature... that's what takes a long time to learn.

I want to be an artist. I don't want to be a celebrity.

To me, fashion is ceaselessly fascinating because it is an expression of self.

With imagination and personal creativity, people who sew can design the way they look to suit themselves.

My personality is more the personality of a painter.

I am always updating and coming up with something fresh, whether it's a colour, a trend, or a design, as my uncle always taught me to be unique and different.

Sometimes I've been interested in studying fashion design. Just for fun.

The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What I have to offer is me, what you have to offer is you, and if you offer yourself with authenticity and generosity I will be moved.

I think it's really important to make things your own in your voice. I started when I was 23, and in the beginning of my career, there was this expectation of a young designer being edgier, cooler, more downtown. But I was never that person.

I really approached the film as if it was a white big piece of paper and I was going to draw a picture on it. And whether that picture was good or bad, whatever people thought of it, what they could never take away was that it was my picture.