Top 66 Alessandro Michele Quotes

Sometimes when people talk about me in fashion, I feel – I don’t want to say uncomfortable, but I still don’t believe that I’m in ‘fashion.’

I have something inside of me that every day tells me that nature and beauty is the soul, the meaning, of our life. And I also love Hollywood and cinema.

I usually talk about clothes in terms of a story rather than a colour.

The only dream I have in my life is to be a little piece of my dad, because he was really happy.

My father was a shaman. He told me that time doesn’t exist. He didn’t use a clock. He didn’t know when my birthday was.

I grew up with a father who didn’t wear a watch, and this has permanently marked my relationship with time.

If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.

It seems only natural to me to present my men’s and women’s collections together.

Your memory is not my memory.

Snoopy was a philosopher in a way.

I think if you work with different kinds of codes, attitudes, in the end you have a language. It’s like within a person. You are not always the same.

I think that there is not really a difference between a ‘Peanuts’ and a beautiful Renaissance painting. There is something very romantic in the ‘Peanuts’ – it’s at the same level of a novel or a Jane Austen story or a beautiful embroidered rose fabric. It is a piece of romanticism.

The more you are different, the more interesting. The more you are not like me, the more I want to get to know more about you.

I just try to see what happens when you put your feet on the accelerator.

There should be no boundaries, no hierarchy, no violence. Men and women are equal.

I become mad when I work. It’s like a fever that grows; I don’t need to choose just one thing.

I think a lot of people feel that they want something softer. Things are changing. It’s about individuality, and in a way, it’s romantic.

I think we need to dream.

I have a lot of suits, but I’m not the kind of person who looks good in a suit. Suits are too serious for me. They are better if you can break the rules, so that’s why I always try to add something crazy to them.

In fashion, people are very focused on the future, but I really love to talk about the present.

Here in L.A., people really open their houses in an easy way, nothing too complicated. You can go in your flip-flops.

Trees and flowers are so important. The idea of blooming is the idea of becoming something different.

I love to come to L.A. because it’s one of the most inspiring places because there are no rules.

Beauty has no boundaries, no rules, no colors. Beauty is like a religion. You can include everything inside it.

We live in a world that is full of product. We have too much.

My apartment is full of antique pieces, but I put everything together like a modern installation.

I love the English aesthetic; in a way, I feel it is close to my own, a beautiful chaos; it is a powerful mix of the past and the present.

I’m very curious. I feel more comfortable surrounded by people not like me.

Fashion is the most beautiful illusion you can have.

I don’t have a problem to say I am a good merchandiser, because I love objects.

My way to think about creation is like the end of the world. I love confusion. So music and image, picture, fabrics, people, person, talk: That’s my way to work. And food. And perfumes. I love perfumes. And flowers and plants, and dresses and vintage.

I’m a collector of everything.

Some women are forced by men to look a certain way to be accepted by the general public, and I find that terrible.

I never wanted to be a creative director.

Luxury means that you show the way you dress with eccentricity.

To be against something or someone, it’s a dangerous thing.

For me, fashion is something that makes you feel alive, that expresses something of you: if you are sad, if you are happy.

For me, nothing is old. I don’t know why. If a dress is beautiful, and it’s very personal, I think it can live forever.

For me, my way to think about everything in fashion is a very baroque way.

I don’t feel the pressure of the market – otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to work.

My idea for Gucci was crazy, but that’s the only idea I had. I was sure I’d be fired after the first show.

The way you dress is an expression of your personality.

I’ve been an avid collector since I was a child.

I love just a stage.

I really don’t consider Kim Kardashian sexy. She’s like one of those primordial sculptures of fertility, like the Venus of Willendorf.

In L.A., I feel God more than I do in a church.

I’m not scared of beauty, but if you fall in love with a beautiful man, it’s not easy. It’s easier to be in love with an ugly man. Beauty has a kind of power.

I’m not conscious of being a revolutionary. This is my life, looking through my glasses at my little world, but this world seems to be full of people who understand it.

All of us, we are not one thing: we’re always between two worlds, and the idea of not being sure is very appealing to me.

I never want to go out wearing something sad.

With a brand like Gucci, you have to give something that belongs to beautiful Italian culture in terms of craftsmanship and materials.

I love to mix everything together. It’s really my way to see beauty.

I understand that people want to see just the posh side of fashion, but fashion is a lot of work.

I am obsessed with fashion, like my mother, and I am obsessed with art, like my father.

My life – it’s a piece of work. And my work is a piece of life.

The fragments for the past, for me, are not without life.

I spend a lot of time in Paris, in Milan, and in New York, and Rome is a little bit different. There is something in Rome, incredible, like in a Fellini movie. Everybody’s screaming and laughing very loud. It’s something that can give me more energy in terms of freedom.

I love taking prints, embroidery, appliques – precious things that seem to be from another time – and using them to create a contemporary, new story.

Fashion should be genderless; how people perceive the idea of beauty can vary from one to another.

The idea of my fashion shows is that you can’t understand where you are; it’s something surreal.

It has been a marvellous experience and a great gift collaborating with Madonna. Now that I have had the chance to see her working, I truly understand why she is so grand! I believe she is a true artist, and I am crazy about her.

The idea that I’m 45 doesn’t mean that I have no creativity. I’m like a student: it’s the same – it’s not a war!

Gender and sex are about rules which we have invented, but we are animals; we belong to nature.

My mum was obsessed with dress… so, in my house, there was always the obsession about aesthetics. She was obsessed with the idea that a beautiful movie is the one where you’re so involved you won’t go to the toilet during it, or you’ll fall asleep with your make-up on after.

Vintage is my vocabulary… like the notes of a musician.

I am a collector of jewels, old jewels.