Quotes By Roberto Cavalli

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

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

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.

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.

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

Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist.

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

I am not gay.

Excess is success.

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

What is too much? There is no such thing!

In my planet, fashion, I'm the only straight man.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Money is the most corrosive aspect of life today because it means that all attention to detail is forgotten.

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

Normally, I never dress up.

It is important to be chic.

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.

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

Maybe I think too much.

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.

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

When I go to a restaurant and they say, 'We're fully booked,' I say, 'It's Roberto Cavalli,' and they say, 'I will check'. I love it!

I think God is the most fantastic designer.