Roberto Cavalli famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I think I was the first to show that a designer could be like a rock star, that people should love your fashion but also put your name together with your fashion.
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Sometimes women are afraid to be sexy and women should know that sometimes a dress can change her life
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I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.
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A beautiful dress can be as exciting as a poem.
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Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'
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There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.
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I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it’s one small piece of art.
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I copy the dress of an animal because I love to copy God. I think God is the most fantastic designer.
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I feel fashion needs me for many, many years more.
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Fashion should be something that in the morning, when you open your window, you say, 'Oh fantastic, sun!' Then you take your shower, you say, 'OK fantastic, which colour I wear today because I feel happy?' This should be fashion.
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My devotion to my job started from a personal defeat: my first girlfriend's parents rejected me because i wasn't rich. I decided i would show them what a big mistake they had made.
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I learn much more by traveling by myself,
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If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.
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I think God is the most fantastic designer.
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I love clothes and fashion more than music
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The industrial direction is sometimes too much. We should think more about fantasy.
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I love women's fashion, but women don't need me as much as men do. It's the men who have nothing to wear.
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With time, fashion has become part of my DNA.
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I want men to be more chic - and Japanese style has that kind of sophisticated elegance.
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I tried immediately to have a baby because I was so afraid not to have a baby in my life.
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I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.
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In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.
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Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist,
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Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself.
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Every girl creates a dream in her mind; everyone needs an idol.
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I know I have to be like people expect, because people love to dream with me, they like to think that I love my boat of 50 metres, that I drink Cristal for breakfast, that I dance until five o'clock in the morning. I am not like that.
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Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.
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I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.
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I meet people, I like to ask: which sign are you?
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I love a woman, I love to judge how beautiful she is, how beautiful I can make her.
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I love to spend money.
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The big fish run the show. I'm a middle fish, but there are small fish that are poisonous.
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My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles I went to fashion.
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I love women in all their different incarnations. My friends are practically all women. They are much more intelligent than men.
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I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.
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The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.
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Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind.
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What is too much? There is no such thing!
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In my planet, fashion, I'm the only straight man.
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I really don't understand minimalism. It is so polite and boring. If you don't want anyone to notice you, you should stay home and grow your own vegetables.
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It’s difficult to create fashion, you can’t just learn it, you have to have fashion in your DNA.
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I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there and feel like a bird. In this moment I feel free.
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Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.
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You can't just buy things for the label - it's ridiculous.
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Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.
-- Roberto Cavalli
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