Domenico Dolce

“When I was 16, I knew I was gay. I loved a lot. But I lived as a straight guy, because there are people in my town who don't understand my story. I never told. I never wanted to show what was inside my heart.”

“Each of our collections is like a movie. We write the script, and this Sicilian woman who has traveled around the world plays the lead role.”

“My morning routine is quite common: I have breakfast at home while reading the newspaper, I take a shower, get dressed, a spray of cologne, and I am ready to go!”

“As a teenager, I would wear Clarks, corduroy pants and striped shirts, and I loved it.”

“At the beginning of the career is important for a designer to present his most representative pieces.”

“We have never considered our brand superior or inferior to any other one, and we have never spoken about our work in comparison to anyone else's. We are ourselves; we have never had the presumption to please everyone, but we believe in the utmost liberty to express oneself.”

“I want to dance. I want to live.”

“I come from a small village in Sicily. For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.”

“If you open my wardrobe, it's very boring.”

“Tarots tell different sides of the various personalities that exist in all of us. I find it fascinating how they combine names, images, and numbers. You don't need to be able to read them, or know their real meaning, to be charmed.”

“My mum was very conscious about fashion, and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my life, although now, really, I wear the same thing - just in different weights - light and heavy cashmere in winter and cotton in summer. And jeans.”

“It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood.”

“The fashion system has killed fashion.”

“My mum was very conscious about fashion and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my life, although now, really, I wear the same thing - just in different weights - light and heavy cashmere in winter and cotton in summer.”

“Our fashion is for everyone and, throughout the years, we have had the possibility of working with the world's most beautiful and charming women and men. There is no person in particular who we would like to work with that we haven't already worked with.”