Quotes by Donatella Versace

About Donatella Versace:

Donatella Versace is an Italian fashion designer and current Vice President of the Versace Group, as well as its chief designer. She owns a 20% share of the business. During the 1980s, Donatella's brother, Gianni Versace, launched a perfume dedicated to her, Blonde, and gave her his own diffusion label, Versus. Versace took over the label's design after her brother's death.
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I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the first pattern, and then she had people working for her. So I grew up in an atelier, watching people all around me sewing. I was fascin...

Donatella Versace

How do I keep young? Haven't you heard? I sleep every night in the deep freezer!

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I know who the Versace woman is, because I wear the clothes myself.

Donatella Versace

I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.

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New York is full of creative people, not only in fashion.

Donatella Versace

In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame.

Donatella Versace

I think my own look makes people think I'm tough, but when they get to know me I'm very different.

Donatella Versace

We all retire one day. If we want to, if we don't want to.

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My style is not that big. I wear heels, tight pants, and I wear diamonds.

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Feminism is dead in the world. It comes from another time. I'm a feminist. I want to fight, but I don't see many people with this desire to fight for something. Women don't help each other, especially in fashion.

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I don't even know what my natural color is. Natural? What is natural? What is that? I do not believe in totally natural for women. For me, natural has something to do with vegetables

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You can never forget the time you're living in because the past is the past and it will never come back. So to adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you're living in is the most important thing.

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My muse changes all the time because I think every designer is a bit of a muse for themselves in a way - they just don't want to say it.

Donatella Versace

I wake up at about the same time every day. I sleep well and wake without an alarm clock.

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Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.

Donatella Versace

People are always surprised when they spend time with my children by how normal they are. They're polite. They're well mannered. They're very down to earth, in a way.

Donatella Versace

I was a fashion addict by the time I was 11 years old. I'd wear a miniskirt and patent-leather boots.

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I think there was a time when I was too strict and controlling. I think I asphyxiated my children.

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At that time of the supermodels, celebrities didn't want to be in fashion; they thought they were more intellectual and interesting than anyone in fashion.

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To define the era we live in is very difficult. How do we define it? We define it by music.

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I'm like a little kid when it comes to music. I mean, the music is always blasting wherever I am that people always knock on my door and say, 'It's too loud!' But I think music gives so much inspiration.

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Author Bio

  • NameDonatella Versace
  • DescriptionItalian fashion designer
  • BornMay 2, 1955
  • CountryItaly
  • ProfessionDesigner