Quotes By Roberto Cavalli

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.

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.

I love to spend money.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

I am not gay.

My name is very often associated with parties and entertaining, but it's not true. I am not such a party person.

What is too much? There is no such thing!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Normally, I never dress up.

Every woman inspires me.

It is important to be chic.

In the evening every man looks the same. Like penguins. Women have a special dress for that event; men, the same tuxedo.

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.