Quotes from Gianni Versace

I liked women as a shape to dress.

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

For me, the summer will be pure gray - mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big statement for summer. Then we have light blue, light turquoise, lots of pink.

The first thing I really enjoy is to make love, after comes the music.

I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.

I want always to be positive.

I don't license everywhere. I take care of my name.

That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.

In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.

I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.

My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.

I never fall down. I always fight.

My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.

I try to contrast life today is full of contrast... We have to change.

Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.

Comfort is very important to me. I think people live better in big houses and in big clothes.

I want to be a designer for my time.

I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married.

I love very much the night after every fashion show when I have all those invitations to parties and I stay quiet at home by myself.

The environment was so strong, so dramatic. Tragedy is all over Calabria; it's in the air. All this corresponds to my temperament.

I love photography and art-directing is something that I really would enjoy to do.

Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.

Do not go into trends. Do not allow fashion take you over, choose who you want to be and what do you want to show with your clothes and lifestyle.

I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.