Roberto Cavalli quotes
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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.”
-- Roberto CavalliSource : "Rock the Boat" by Nick Axelrod, www.elle.com. July 8, 2011.
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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.”
-- Roberto CavalliSource : Interview with Lauren Milligan, www.vogue.co.uk. July 15, 2011.
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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.”
-- Roberto CavalliSource : "My City, My Life" Interview, edition.cnn.com. May 3, 2008.
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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.”
-- Roberto CavalliSource : "Rock the Boat" by Nick Axelrod, www.elle.com. July 08, 2011.
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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.”
-- Roberto CavalliSource : "King of bling". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2003.
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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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“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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“Today the world is a big jungle.”
-- Roberto CavalliSource : "King of bling". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2003.
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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 CavalliSource : "Roberto Cavalli's Fashion Circus" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 27, 2010.
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