Alessandro Michele Quotes

There should be no boundaries, no hierarchy, no violence. Men and women are equal.

- Alessandro Michele

Men, Hierarchy, Equal, No Boundaries

Beauty has no boundaries, no rules, no colors. Beauty is like a religion. You can include everything inside it.

- Alessandro Michele

Beauty, Like, Include, No Boundaries

With a brand like Gucci, you have to give something that belongs to beautiful Italian culture in terms of craftsmanship and materials.

- Alessandro Michele

Give, Something, Like, Italian

I really don't consider Kim Kardashian sexy. She's like one of those primordial sculptures of fertility, like the Venus of Willendorf.

- Alessandro Michele

Like, Sculptures, Primordial, Venus

Vintage is my vocabulary... like the notes of a musician.

- Alessandro Michele

Like, Vocabulary, Notes, Musician

I think that there is not really a difference between a 'Peanuts' and a beautiful Renaissance painting. There is something very romantic in the 'Peanuts' - it's at the same level of a novel or a Jane Austen story or a beautiful embroidered rose fabric. It is a piece of romanticism.

- Alessandro Michele

Renaissance, I Think, Very, Romanticism

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

- Alessandro Michele

Dress, Show, Means, Eccentricity

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.

- Alessandro Michele

Always, Chameleon, Been, Intrigued

There is something special about the beauty in the unclear, the ambiguity, the in-between that you can't totally recognise.

- Alessandro Michele

Beauty, Special, Ambiguity, Unclear

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

- Alessandro Michele

Me, Think, Very, Baroque

My way to think about creation is like the end of the world. I love confusion. So music and image, picture, fabrics, people, person, talk: That's my way to work. And food. And perfumes. I love perfumes. And flowers and plants, and dresses and vintage.

- Alessandro Michele

Love, About, I Love, Confusion

I have something inside of me that every day tells me that nature and beauty is the soul, the meaning, of our life. And I also love Hollywood and cinema.

- Alessandro Michele

Love, Beauty, Hollywood, Meaning Of

Fashion is not about product; it's about an interesting idea that you can't resist buying into.

- Alessandro Michele

Interesting, Product, Idea, Interesting Idea

For me, reworking the past over and over again is a way not to trivialise the garments and not to obsess over hem lengths. What I am interested in, as a matter of fact, is telling a story and, if someone sees fragments of other stories in it, be my guest. I don't have to justify myself. What is urgent for me is what I want to say.

- Alessandro Michele

Other, Telling, Obsess, Garments

I love couture, but the other side of me loves the street, and I think the mix of these two can create something new.

- Alessandro Michele

Love, Think, New, Mix

The obsession that you have to manage everything - it's really bad.

- Alessandro Michele

Obsession, Bad, Everything, Manage

I love to mix everything together. It's really my way to see beauty.

- Alessandro Michele

Love, See, I Love, Mix

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.

- Alessandro Michele

Love, Chaos, Aesthetic, Mix

It seems only natural to me to present my men's and women's collections together.

- Alessandro Michele

Men, Natural, Only, Collections

It has been a marvellous experience and a great gift collaborating with Madonna. Now that I have had the chance to see her working, I truly understand why she is so grand! I believe she is a true artist, and I am crazy about her.

- Alessandro Michele

Gift, Artist, Been, Marvellous

I've been an avid collector since I was a child.

- Alessandro Michele

Been, Collector, Since, Avid

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

- Alessandro Michele

Beginning, Here, Very, Florence

I spend a lot of time in Paris, in Milan, and in New York, and Rome is a little bit different. There is something in Rome, incredible, like in a Fellini movie. Everybody's screaming and laughing very loud. It's something that can give me more energy in terms of freedom.

- Alessandro Michele

Movie, Everybody, Very, Fellini

The idea that a man should be wearing something different and more eccentric is obviously the oldest idea on earth.

- Alessandro Michele

More, Idea, Oldest, Eccentric

I'm not scared of beauty, but if you fall in love with a beautiful man, it's not easy. It's easier to be in love with an ugly man. Beauty has a kind of power.

- Alessandro Michele

Love, Beauty, Kind, Scared

I am brazen. For me, creating means regurgitating, distorting, and assembling everything that has passed through me and continues to do so.

- Alessandro Michele

Through, Means, Assembling, Distorting

Here in L.A., people really open their houses in an easy way, nothing too complicated. You can go in your flip-flops.

- Alessandro Michele

Nothing, Go, Here, Open

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

- Alessandro Michele

Language, Dreaming, Obsessed, Open

The fragments for the past, for me, are not without life.

- Alessandro Michele

Past, Me, Without, Fragments

I am a collector of jewels, old jewels.

- Alessandro Michele

I Am, Old, Am, Jewels

I think if you work with different kinds of codes, attitudes, in the end you have a language. It's like within a person. You are not always the same.

- Alessandro Michele

Think, Always, Codes, In The End

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

- Alessandro Michele

Some, Certain Way, Forced, Women Are

I think a lot of people feel that they want something softer. Things are changing. It's about individuality, and in a way, it's romantic.

- Alessandro Michele

Think, Want, I Think, Individuality

I grew up with a father who didn't wear a watch, and this has permanently marked my relationship with time.

- Alessandro Michele

Father, Wear, Marked, Permanently

The only urgency I feel is to keep on, at a slow pace, with my journey.

- Alessandro Michele

Journey, Slow, Urgency, My Journey

The only dream I have in my life is to be a little piece of my dad, because he was really happy.

- Alessandro Michele

Happy, My Life, Dad, Little Piece

Gender and sex are about rules which we have invented, but we are animals; we belong to nature.

- Alessandro Michele

Gender, Belong, Which, Invented

Westminster is a piece of this city's energy, something the contemporary world has forgotten.

- Alessandro Michele

World, Contemporary, Piece, Energy

I always explain through images and characters what fashion means, and describing scent is almost the same. It can be very powerful. It can really change the perspective a person has of you.

- Alessandro Michele

Through, Always, Explain, Scent

I love taking prints, embroidery, appliques - precious things that seem to be from another time - and using them to create a contemporary, new story.

- Alessandro Michele

Love, New, Using, Prints

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

- Alessandro Michele

Power, Themselves, Express, Capability

There is something in Shanghai that is very exciting and alive - the idea of a city with two different souls, one from today and another from a long time ago, is amazing.

- Alessandro Michele

City, Alive, Very, Shanghai

I had two different kind of parents. My mother was obsessive with movie stars and cinema and Hollywood because she worked in movies. And my father was obsessed with beauty everywhere - in art, in nature, animals.

- Alessandro Michele

Beauty, Hollywood, Movie, Parents

Clothes are endless possibilities for meaning because with every change or different association, you are a different person.

- Alessandro Michele

Change, Possibilities, Different Person

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

- Alessandro Michele

Lose, Always, Had, Pen

My apartment is full of antique pieces, but I put everything together like a modern installation.

- Alessandro Michele

Pieces, Modern, Like, Antique

In fashion, people are very focused on the future, but I really love to talk about the present.

- Alessandro Michele

Love, Future, Very, Present

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

- Alessandro Michele

Interesting, Am, Really, Contemporary

The way you dress is really the way you feel, the way you live, what you read, your choices. That's what I want to put into Gucci.

- Alessandro Michele

Dress, Want, Read, Gucci

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.

- Alessandro Michele

Fired, Idea, Sure, Gucci

When I started to work at Gucci, I tried literally to destroy everything.

- Alessandro Michele

Work, Tried, Literally, Gucci

I like it when I see people dressed on the street, and it looks like Gucci, but it's not. It means you are doing something right.

- Alessandro Michele

Doing, Like, Means, Gucci

I'm not conscious of being a revolutionary. This is my life, looking through my glasses at my little world, but this world seems to be full of people who understand it.

- Alessandro Michele

My Life, Understand, Through, Conscious

I just try to see what happens when you put your feet on the accelerator.

- Alessandro Michele

Feet, Try, See, Accelerator

I usually talk about clothes in terms of a story rather than a colour.

- Alessandro Michele

Colour, Rather, Terms, Clothes

Fashion should be genderless; how people perceive the idea of beauty can vary from one to another.

- Alessandro Michele

Beauty, Vary, How, Perceive

My father was a shaman. He told me that time doesn't exist. He didn't use a clock. He didn't know when my birthday was.

- Alessandro Michele

Birthday, Father, Use, Clock

Fashion is the most beautiful illusion you can have.

- Alessandro Michele

Beautiful, You, Most, Fashion

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

- Alessandro Michele

Sad, Happy, Alive, Fashion

I understand that people want to see just the posh side of fashion, but fashion is a lot of work.

- Alessandro Michele

See, Posh, Lot, Fashion

I think that fashion, for a long time, has been in a prison. Without freedom. I think that without freedom, with rules, it's impossible to create a new story.

- Alessandro Michele

Think, New, Been, Fashion

I love to come to L.A. because it's one of the most inspiring places because there are no rules.

- Alessandro Michele

Love, Rules, Come, No Rules

Sometimes when people talk about me in fashion, I feel - I don't want to say uncomfortable, but I still don't believe that I'm in 'fashion.'

- Alessandro Michele

Want, Sometimes, Still, Uncomfortable

I adore the classical pieces of our culture. The Greek and Roman are still inside and everywhere; it's impossible to disconnect.

- Alessandro Michele

Greek, Disconnect, Still, Everywhere

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.

- Alessandro Michele

Dress, Movie, Mum, Toilet

I have a lot of suits, but I'm not the kind of person who looks good in a suit. Suits are too serious for me. They are better if you can break the rules, so that's why I always try to add something crazy to them.

- Alessandro Michele

Good, Rules, Why, Suits

I never want to go out wearing something sad.

- Alessandro Michele

Sad, Never, Want, Wearing

I love to give voice to things that are not very visible.

- Alessandro Michele

Love, Voice, Give, Visible

I hate to plan my life.

- Alessandro Michele

Life, Hate, My Life, Plan

All of us, we are not one thing: we're always between two worlds, and the idea of not being sure is very appealing to me.

- Alessandro Michele

Always, Very, Worlds, Appealing

The idea of my fashion shows is that you can't understand where you are; it's something surreal.

- Alessandro Michele

Understand, Idea, Shows, Surreal

I am always connected with the Renaissance a lot; that's why I am connected with Pitti Palace.

- Alessandro Michele

Connected, Always, Lot, Renaissance

Trees and flowers are so important. The idea of blooming is the idea of becoming something different.

- Alessandro Michele

Flowers, Important, Blooming, Different

I adore pink; it's very powerful. It makes you feel sweet and sexy, also if you are a man.

- Alessandro Michele

Sexy, Pink, Very, Adore

Creativity is not about the fame.

- Alessandro Michele

Creativity, About, Fame

I become mad when I work. It's like a fever that grows; I don't need to choose just one thing.

- Alessandro Michele

Need, Like, Grows, Fever

I don't have a problem to say I am a good merchandiser, because I love objects.

- Alessandro Michele

Love, Problem, I Love, Objects

To be against something or someone, it's a dangerous thing.

- Alessandro Michele

Someone, Against, Thing, Dangerous

I'm obsessed with trompe l'oeil - the idea of something that is existing and is not existing.

- Alessandro Michele

Something, Idea, Existing, Obsessed

I am obsessed with fashion, like my mother, and I am obsessed with art, like my father.

- Alessandro Michele

Mother, Art, I Am, Obsessed

I'm a collector of everything.

- Alessandro Michele

Everything, Collector

I have the soul of a director.

- Alessandro Michele

Soul, Director

I never wanted to be a creative director.

- Alessandro Michele

Creative, Never, Wanted, Director

I don't feel the pressure of the market - otherwise, I wouldn't be able to work.

- Alessandro Michele

Work, Market, Otherwise, Pressure

Snoopy was a philosopher in a way.

- Alessandro Michele

Way, Philosopher

We live in a world that is full of product. We have too much.

- Alessandro Michele

World, Too Much, Too, Product

My life - it's a piece of work. And my work is a piece of life.

- Alessandro Michele

Work, Life, My Life, Piece

The idea that I'm 45 doesn't mean that I have no creativity. I'm like a student: it's the same - it's not a war!

- Alessandro Michele

Student, Same, Like, Creativity

If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.

- Alessandro Michele

Sleep, Rules, You, Creativity

The way you dress is an expression of your personality.

- Alessandro Michele

Dress, Expression, Your, Way

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.

- Alessandro Michele

Think, I Think, Very, Dress

I have a big passion for flowers and nature.

- Alessandro Michele

Nature, Passion, Big, Flowers

I feel happy when I work. I don't care if tomorrow I will be fired.

- Alessandro Michele

Work, Happy, Will, Fired

Your memory is not my memory.

- Alessandro Michele

Your, Memory

In L.A., I feel God more than I do in a church.

- Alessandro Michele

More, Feel, Than, Church

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

- Alessandro Michele

Surrounded, Like, Very, Curious

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