I always listen to music while I draw.
I'm just not very interested in decoration.
Everyone thinks the fashion business is so glamorous. It's completely the opposite.
I have worked with several dance companies.
I'm a morning person, really alert.
I hope I am the antithesis of disposable fashion.
I very much like dance and dancers.
'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.
The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.
I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno.
I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.
Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.
I hope people will say, 'Mr. Valentino, he did something for fashion, no?'
Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt.
I wasn't into pop music, even at a really young age.
Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
I'm sure that everyone who goes into fashion always dreams of having a perfume, since it completes the brand and exposes it in a different way.
Diamond heists, romance & intrigue feature in Stella di Mare.
My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since.
Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse.
I'm very down to Earth, I'm just not from this Earth.
