Many young people don't know what Versace represent. I want to show what makes Versace an iconic brand.
Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.
Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.
French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.
Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.
Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.
I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.
I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.
There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.
I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.
The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.
People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.
I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion.
I know who the Versace woman is, because I wear the clothes myself.
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
I didn't think that personal style had much value in graphic design.
For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.
So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.
I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go.
