Gianni Versace

I want always to be positive.

Gianni Versace

I want to be the joy to people through my work.

Gianni Versace

My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I’m collecting.

Gianni Versace

Perfume puts the finishing touch to elegance – a detail that subtly underscores the look, an invisible extra that completes a man and a woman’s personality. Without it there is something missing.

Gianni Versace

Designing came to me. I didn’t have to move.

Gianni Versace

Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they’re doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.

Gianni Versace

Fashion goes with the feeling of the moment. It’s related to movies, to art, to young people’s taste.

Gianni Versace

I hate the traffic over there. Why don’t they start to build moving pathways to replace all the streets? I see New York in a very futuristic way, but they must do something new.

Gianni Versace

I learned to work with my mother, who had an haute-couture business.

Gianni Versace

I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.

Gianni Versace