Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person. |
You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That's dangerous. |
Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas. |
I like perfume and flowers. |
Gianni created the whole thing. I came later and helped him. |
It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it. |
Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine. |
I don't like my physique at all. |
In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame. |
Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much. |
I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion. |