Alessandro Michele

“I'm very curious. I feel more comfortable surrounded by people not like me.”

“I love the English aesthetic; in a way, I feel it is close to my own, a beautiful chaos; it is a powerful mix of the past and the present.”

“The more you are different, the more interesting. The more you are not like me, the more I want to get to know more about you.”

“For me, my way to think about everything in fashion is a very baroque way.”

“This is the power of fashion: the capability of allowing people to express themselves.”

“You have to be open to dreaming. It's a complicated language, but I'm obsessed with it.”

“The way you dress is an expression of your personality.”

“Creativity is not about the fame.”

“I think we need to dream.”

“Some women are forced by men to look a certain way to be accepted by the general public, and I find that terrible.”

“I love just a stage.”

“My mum was obsessed with dress... so, in my house, there was always the obsession about aesthetics. She was obsessed with the idea that a beautiful movie is the one where you're so involved you won't go to the toilet during it, or you'll fall asleep with your make-up on after.”

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

“I've always been intrigued and fascinated by Gaga. She is a chameleon; she has the capability to fully express her individuality and her eclectic personality by simply being herself.”

“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 future is not so interesting for me because the future doesn't exist. I am really focused on the contemporary.”

“For me, fashion is something that makes you feel alive, that expresses something of you: if you are sad, if you are happy.”

“Luxury means that you show the way you dress with eccentricity.”

“I always lose every single pencil I ever had. So I can draw with everything. With pencil, with pen.”

“For me, nothing is old. I don't know why. If a dress is beautiful, and it's very personal, I think it can live forever.”