I was lucky. From the time I was a little, I was always surrounded by women, and I am very attracted to the feminine world, because I love the streng….

For me, aesthetically, Donatella Versace represent what the Italian woman is. There is always the American rock thing, the aristocratic, above-the-re….

Religion and love don't have a price, don't have a gender, a skin color, nothing. We are all on the same plate..

I listen to certain opinions because those are important to me. I am a Leo, so I very much have my feet on the ground, and I know what I want, but th….

There was a loneliness because kids my age had video games, tennis. They traveled. They had beautiful clothes. I was wearing my sisters' old clothes ….

We are Italian. We are all little tribes - not only in fashion, but also in music - in everything, basically..

I always think about the streets because that's where I come from and that's where I'm going to die one day. That is my life..

My definition of beauty is something between extremely ugly and extremely fantastic..

People's wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress..

I am very attracted to the United States. Why? Well, as a little kid from Southern Italy, not from a wealthy family, it was always my dream to go to ….

The elegance of the Italian South is a very strong elegance and it is one that I bring. It is a sexy elegance - or at least, let's say less chaste..

In Italy, especially in '70s and '80s, there was a lot of racism between north and south. And my mom immigrated from the south to the north, from Pug….

When I went to England, to Saint Martins, I was traumatized, in a positive way. It was that British sense of transgression and the dark. Then when I ….

When I do a show I have such high emotion; the energy is amazing - but, people don't really see the details and the work and the experimentation that….

I used to hate to go to school, because when it was Friday afternoon and everybody was finished school, I knew I was going to work Saturday and Sunda….

I am close friends with Marina Abamovich, so I love strong, very aggressive political art. She is like a mom who wants to adopt me..

I think that's what you and I have in common, Donatella Versace, that careful balance. It makes me proud to be an Italian. In the end, I am proud to ….

I've always been obsessed with things that are half animal and half human - like mermaids and Minotaurs - because they are trapped in an animal body.….

We didn't have a television, so we sat around the table, and me and my sisters and my mom would do these jobs, like, a penny for a piece, you know, t….

I can give a beautiful present, and that may change the lives of people around me..

I didn't know I was going to become a designer; I was going to become a successful person, but I really wanted to be free..