Quotes from Gianni Versace

Perfume puts the finishing touch to elegance - a detail that subtly underscores the look, an invisible extra that completes a man and a woman's personality. Without it there is something missing.

I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.

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

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

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

I want always to be positive.

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.

I really want to make clothes that are feminine and help women look beautiful.

Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.

Fashion needs incredible women, alive, stimulating, with style like Diana Vreeland. She is the most. The way she talks expresses all her values.

At the beginning of my career, it was very hard to go up. Now, it's very hard to stay on top. You have to stay there, and I want to stay there so badly. I'm still standing.

I want to see my niece and nephew grow up, to see their children... I get crazy at the idea that a time will come when I won't see Daniel and Allegra anymore.

I watch women continuously. I want them to look beautiful, I am not interested in making them funny, but just beautiful. They have got to look marvelous to please their own men.

I want to be the joy to people through my work.

It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better.

Fashion goes with the feeling of the moment. It's related to movies, to art, to young people's taste.

Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.

I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.