Roberto Cavalli Quotes

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 clothes and fashion more than music

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.

Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'

Sometimes women are afraid to be sexy and women should know that sometimes a dress can change her life

A beautiful dress can be as exciting as a poem.

I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.

I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it’s one small piece of art.

I copy the dress of an animal because I love to copy God. I think God is the most fantastic designer.

I think God is the most fantastic designer.

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.

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.

My devotion to my job started from a personal defeat: my first girlfriend's parents rejected me because i wasn't rich. I decided i would show them what a big mistake they had made.

Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind.

You can't just buy things for the label - it's ridiculous.

I love you if you love me.

It is important to be chic.

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.

Today the world is a big jungle.

Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.

I love women in all their different incarnations. My friends are practically all women. They are much more intelligent than men.

What is too much? There is no such thing!

I love a woman, I love to judge how beautiful she is, how beautiful I can make her.

The industrial direction is sometimes too much. We should think more about fantasy.

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.

Every woman inspires me.

Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself.

I enjoy seeing people have fun.

It’s difficult to create fashion, you can’t just learn it, you have to have fashion in your DNA.

Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.

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.

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.

I learn much more by traveling by myself.

I feel fashion needs me for many, many years more.

I love to spend money.

I want men to be more chic - and Japanese style has that kind of sophisticated elegance.

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.

With time, fashion has become part of my DNA.

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

Every girl creates a dream in her mind; everyone needs an idol.

I meet people, I like to ask: which sign are you?

I tried immediately to have a baby because I was so afraid not to have a baby in my life.

I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.

I really don't understand minimalism. It is so polite and boring. If you don't want anyone to notice you, you should stay home and grow your own vegetables.

The big fish run the show. I'm a middle fish, but there are small fish that are poisonous.

I know I have to be like people expect, because people love to dream with me, they like to think that I love my boat of 50 metres, that I drink Cristal for breakfast, that I dance until five o'clock in the morning. I am not like that.

Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.

Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist.

I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.

I love being a fashion designer.