Alessandro Michele

“I spend a lot of time in Paris, in Milan, and in New York, and Rome is a little bit different. There is something in Rome, incredible, like in a Fellini movie. Everybody's screaming and laug...”

“I really don't consider Kim Kardashian sexy. She's like one of those primordial sculptures of fertility, like the Venus of Willendorf.”

“The very beginning of European aesthetics started from Florence. Everything here was beauty, money, and creativity, the power of the good money.”

“The fragments for the past, for me, are not without life.”

“For me, reworking the past over and over again is a way not to trivialise the garments and not to obsess over hem lengths. What I am interested in, as a matter of fact, is telling a story an...”

“My idea for Gucci was crazy, but that's the only idea I had. I was sure I'd be fired after the first show.”

“The way you dress is really the way you feel, the way you live, what you read, your choices. That's what I want to put into Gucci.”

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

“I like it when I see people dressed on the street, and it looks like Gucci, but it's not. It means you are doing something right.”

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

“I become mad when I work. It's like a fever that grows; I don't need to choose just one thing.”

“The only dream I have in my life is to be a little piece of my dad, because he was really happy.”

“The only urgency I feel is to keep on, at a slow pace, with my journey.”

“I think that fashion, for a long time, has been in a prison. Without freedom. I think that without freedom, with rules, it's impossible to create a new story.”

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

“Beauty has no boundaries, no rules, no colors. Beauty is like a religion. You can include everything inside it.”

“I am always connected with the Renaissance a lot; that's why I am connected with Pitti Palace.”

“I understand that people want to see just the posh side of fashion, but fashion is a lot of work.”

“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.”

“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.”