A biography for Roberto Cavallihasn’t been written yet.
“My name is very often associated with parties and entertaining, but it's not true. I am not such a party person.”
“I think God is the most fantastic designer.”
“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.”
“I love women in all their different incarnations. My friends are practically all women. They are much more intelligent than men.”
“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.”
“Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind.”
“In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.”
“Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist.”
“When I go to a restaurant and they say, 'We're fully booked,' I say, 'It's Roberto Cavalli,' and they say, 'I will check'. I love it!”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I feel fashion needs me for many, many years more.”
“I love to spend money.”
“If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.”
“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.”
“I love being a fashion designer.”
“With time, fashion has become part of my DNA.”
“I am not gay.”