Quotes from Alessandro Michele

I always explain through images and characters what fashion means, and describing scent is almost the same. It can be very powerful. It can really change the perspective a person has of you.

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!

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

Westminster is a piece of this city's energy, something the contemporary world has forgotten.

Fashion is not about product; it's about an interesting idea that you can't resist buying into.

Creativity is not about the fame.

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.

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

This is the power of fashion: the capability of allowing people to express themselves.

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

I feel happy when I work. I don't care if tomorrow I will be fired.

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

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

The future is not so interesting for me because the future doesn't exist. I am really focused on the contemporary.

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

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.

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

When I started to work at Gucci, I tried literally to destroy everything.

There is something in Shanghai that is very exciting and alive - the idea of a city with two different souls, one from today and another from a long time ago, is amazing.

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.

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

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.

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