Quotes from Alessandro Michele

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 am brazen. For me, creating means regurgitating, distorting, and assembling everything that has passed through me and continues to do so.

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

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

I have a big passion for flowers and nature.

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

I always lose every single pencil I ever had. So I can draw with everything. With pencil, with pen.

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

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.

Snoopy was a philosopher in a way.

My life - it's a piece of work. And my work is a piece of life.

I adore the classical pieces of our culture. The Greek and Roman are still inside and everywhere; it's impossible to disconnect.

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

The way you dress is really the way you feel, the way you live, what you read, your choices. That's what I want to put into Gucci.

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

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

I hate to plan my life.

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

I'm a collector of everything.

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

I adore pink; it's very powerful. It makes you feel sweet and sexy, also if you are a man.

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

Clothes are endless possibilities for meaning because with every change or different association, you are a different person.