Words matter. These are the best Nicola Formichetti Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Fans don’t lie. They just tell you what they really think, and they see details that even people in fashion don’t.
Uniqlo as a company has always developed new fabrics and is always trying to be innovative. The design is simple, so the fabric is important.
My uniform is usually just comfortable clothing. Being a stylist, you spend most of the day at photo shoots covered in safety pins.
Having plants and flowers in my space makes me feel very calm and Zen. For me, it’s important to meditate every morning to be very clear in the head, and nature really helps me do the same thing.
The Internet shapes my life and work so completely that I couldn’t imagine living without it.
It’s so important as a creative person to go out and look for things. Go to galleries, talk to people, read books. Yes, you can just type something into Google, but if you read and interact, you’ll have a deeper understanding of the world.
Style has replaced elegance. Before, I believed that style is something a person embodied. But now it’s so easy to buy good style if you have the money.
I’m not an elitist. I hate the fashion industry sometimes because it becomes so focused on the elite.
I want young people to be able to buy into what I design. When I was young, I wanted to buy designer brands even if all I could afford was the cheapest wallet, the cheapest pen, the cheapest T-shirt because I wanted to be a part of it.
I love meeting people, and I know it’s so difficult for people to come up to me and introduce themselves, so when they do, I’ll grab them and hug them. It makes their day, you know? I love that, and I get positive energy from that.
Working in a store and being a shop assistant, if you don’t know what to do and you like fashion, I think it’s a great way of getting into the business because you do windows, cleaning, and everything. That was my school for two years, working in a shop, and that’s how I met people in magazines and designers.
Japan, for me, will always be my inspiration source.
I live between Europe, America and Asia.
I’m not a designer, I’m a creator.
I’m half-Japanese, so I collect toys, like a Yayoi Kusama stuffed pumpkin.
My mom was my muse – she would buy me Italian ‘Vogue.’ I was this little fashion boy.
Social networking inspires me a lot and how we are related and connected to each other.
I am terrible at making food. I love eating, but I can’t make anything.
