Riccardo Tisci Quotes
Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me.
Black is always elegant. It is the most complete colour in the whole world, made of all the colours in the palette.
I’m very faithful to myself. When you do things that are true it just comes out quite instinctively.
Religion and love don't have a price, don't have a gender, a skin color, nothing. We are all on the same plate.
I try to destroy taboo in fashion-which is something I learned as a kid. I come from the street, and you have to be a survivor.
My life has changed financially and I have a name, but I try to never forget people on my journey.
Anything I do, I do with my heart. This is why I sometimes get very upset or sometimes get very personal when I'm working.
I've always been obsessed with things that are half animal and half human - like mermaids and Minotaurs - because they are trapped in an animal body. And I felt trapped in my own life.
I always think about the streets because that's where I come from and that's where I'm going to die one day. That is my life.
I brought a lot of the codification of womenswear to menswear. Why? Because when I was a child, I was wearing women's clothes adjusted to me.
No matter how much people in fashion think we're so cool and avant-garde, for most fashion people, creativity is quite taboo.
People's wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress.
I had only two girlfriends. I didn't have many friends because I was staying at home and dreaming - drawing and dreaming.
I come from a very poor family, with sisters. I never really knew my father, so I miss this strong image of a man in my life.
I think my heart is in a very good place. And I think this is why I'm achieving what I've been asking to do in the universe for so long.
I didn't know I was going to become a designer; I was going to become a successful person, but I really wanted to be free.
Couture is more your own world, they come and buy head-to-toe - they buy the jewelry, bags, coats, dresses, bodies underneath.... But couture is not dead - it's taken another shape.
I didn't invent hot water. But when I approach menswear, I do it in a very honest way. And my menswear and womenswear are very similar, in the sense that I put men in leggings and lace shirts.
Most little children's obsessions are robots and Barbie dolls. My obsession as a kid was the Versace house. I used to save up my pocket money to buy Versus shirts. I was that obsessed!
I've got what I want, and I've got the luck to express myself and to be paid and to do what I do as a creative person.
These five years as a couturier have really changed my way of seeing fashion and my confidence with fashion. Couture is a dream.
In spite of the fact that everyone thinks I am very much a rottweiler - that i am very dark and everything - I have a side that is very romantic that i show to very few people.
In prêt-à-porter now we understandably need to make the collection satisfy the big market more, so couture is extra special.
I was a very nice boy. I was well-educated ... very Catholic family. So I was very respectful, never late at work. I was always the last one to leave. It's always been that way in my life.
My friends were like, "Oh, this weekend, we're going to go shopping." "Oh, this weekend I'm going to go to see the judo champion" ... you know. And I couldn't do anything.
I used to hate to go to school, because when it was Friday afternoon and everybody was finished school, I knew I was going to work Saturday and Sunday.
My mom and my sisters were amazing; they always see the good in people. My mom, she doesn't know how to write and read much, but she's one of the most fantastic women I've met in my life.
I'm very well off but I can stay with normal people. I can do a super-luxury life, but I can do a very normal life and I'm not scared.
At the beginning, I didn't see what Givenchy could give my career. It was like, "Okay, I'll do it for the money for a few years to help my mom and my sisters."
In the beginning I didn't want to do a menswear collection. It felt a little forced. And then I found that it was an amazing world.
When I was far away, when I prayed every night, I felt I was very near with my heart, with my brain, to my sisters and my mom.
When I started at 9, I was working with plaster. I worked with a florist. It was a little illegal for kids to work. They would give you tips because they couldn't really give you wages.
This is why I decided to work with Nike, too, because it is even more mass-market than Givenchy and could make entry-price shoes and make people dream to be part of the journey.
This is very much part of my style, I work a lot on the back - I love the back of clothes for men. I love even T-shirts printed behind. I think, "Why do you want to show only the front?"
There are some people whom I esteem and want their opinion first, but that's my way. It is difficult for me to delegate. In the end, I do have two or three people on my team who I listen to.
I am close friends with Marina Abamovich, so I love strong, very aggressive political art. She is like a mom who wants to adopt me.
I am super-Italian, not even European - Italian. And this is very precise. It's like houses. Over time they stabilize themselves in the terrain. I am still at the first step of a long staircase.
I think that's what you and I have in common, Donatella Versace, that careful balance. It makes me proud to be an Italian. In the end, I am proud to do what I do.
The elegance of the Italian South is a very strong elegance and it is one that I bring. It is a sexy elegance - or at least, let's say less chaste.
Couture is emotion. Couture is freedom. Couture is not thinking about pricing and not thinking about craziness. You can do whatever you want to do in couture.
My truth is this: That I don't know what will happen tomorrow because you can never know.
For me, fashion is a job. I love it. It's my passion. But the most important thing for me in general is life.
