Quotes from Roberto Cavalli

You can't just buy things for the label - it's ridiculous.

I really don't understand minimalism. It is so polite and boring. If you don't want anyone to notice you, you should stay home and grow your own vegetables.

There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.

Sometimes women are afraid to be sexy and women should know that sometimes a dress can change her life

I love women's fashion, but women don't need me as much as men do. It's the men who have nothing to wear.

Normally, I never dress up.

In my planet, fashion, I'm the only straight man.

Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind.

I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it's one small piece of art.

I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.

Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist.

My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles I went to fashion.

I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.

The industrial direction is sometimes too much. We should think more about fantasy.

Money is the most corrosive aspect of life today because it means that all attention to detail is forgotten.

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.

I love women in all their different incarnations. My friends are practically all women. They are much more intelligent than men.

I love you if you love me.