Riccardo Tisci Quotes - Page 2

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• No matter how much people in fashion think we're so cool and avant-garde, for most fashion people, creativity is quite taboo.

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  Fashion, Creativity, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There was a loneliness because kids my age had video games, tennis. They traveled. They had beautiful clothes. I was wearing my sisters' old clothes that were adjusted on me, because we didn't have money to buy clothes. So that really made me go deep inside on my heart, because the only things I could have with me were my heart and my brain.

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  Beautiful, Loneliness, Heart

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love art and music more than I love fashion, to be honest.

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  Fashion, Art, Honest

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• I can give a beautiful present, and that may change the lives of people around me.

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  Beautiful, People, Giving

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• For me, fashion is a job. I love it. It's my passion. But the most important thing for me in general is life.

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  Fashion, Passion, Important

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• When I arrived here at Givenchy, there was a lot of confusion. Before me, there had been some great geniuses - John Galliano and Alexander McQueen are great masters. They marked history. But when I came in after Julien Macdonald, it was also a bit of a mess, because not even I could understand what the true identity of Givenchy was. Everyone thinks that it's only Audrey Hepburn, but there is a whole other world behind it.

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  Thinking, Confusion, Identity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I believe that couture is not about shocking.

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  Believe, I Believe, Couture

  Source: www.dazeddigital.com

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• Even though I had a fantastic family, I always felt lonely - not lonely in the melancholic way but knowing that, to really survive, I have to do everything for myself. I had to work and study, and I was out in the street really surviving, bringing food back home.

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  Lonely, Home, Knowing

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• The couture client wants the latest things, but she wants the clothes to be super-special - the fabrics won't even touch or go near anything like prêt-à-porter.

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  Clothes, Special, Want

  Source: www.dazeddigital.com

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• When I was 12, I used to dress as a woman in the house. At the time, cross-dressing was a big taboo in Italy. It was better to have a son who was a drug addict than a cross-dresser.

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  Son, House, Drug

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• My great strength, which I very much believe in, is family. For me, family doesn't simply mean components of DNA. I mean family in the sense of siblings. My mom and my sisters are the energy and inspiration in my life.

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  Mom, Sibling, Believe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We are Italian. We are all little tribes - not only in fashion, but also in music - in everything, basically.

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  Fashion, Italian

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• If I am in fashion, it is really due to very few designers that I admire - not because I don't like the rest, or that the rest are not beautiful, but because I am very selective. I adore Versace. I adore Helmut Lang, despite the fact that it's over.

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  Beautiful, Fashion, Designer

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• For me, creating the clothes of Givenchy is the way to make my tribe. It's related to religion, too, because it's people trying to find identity - the young generation is looking for tribes. You have the hip-hop tribes, the punk tribes, the rockers, you have the hipsters, the bourgeois ... The fact of the tribe is that it's like a religion. Punk is like a religion, because it's a belief.

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  Hipster, People, Trying

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• I've got what I want, and I've got the luck to express myself and to be paid and to do what I do as a creative person.

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  Creative, Luck, Want

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• Sex is something I live very well, but it is something I revealed very slowly in my fashion. What I do is emotional. For me, there is a base, which is my Italian roots. It's a strong passion for fashion, a passion for sensuality and dressing for one's self.

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  Fashion, Strong, Passion

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• I love finding new things. I love the conceptual aspect of Antony Hegarty or the voices of those back in the day like Lil' Kim, Missy Elliott, Ciara. I love what evokes emotion in me.

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  Emotion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My inspiration comes from many sources, and one of those sources is precisely the maison Versace. When I was a little boy, my family was not very well off. I had a sister who worked in a hairdressing salon. I lost my dad when I was 4 or 5 years old. I grew up with eight sisters and my mom. Nine incredible women all a little "à la Donatella Versace." Real strong women from the South of Italy, women who had sensuality. They had a confidence in their body and in their sensuality. And it was a poor family, I am very proud to say it.

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  Mom, Strong Women, Dad

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• I love hip-hop and R&B. People always say, "You are dark, you make dark dresses. You probably only love The Cure or Diamanda Galás." I love Diamanda Galás, but I also love Madonna, Beyoncé, and Courtney Love. They are all from different worlds, but they all evoke emotions in me. I am someone who needs emotions and needs to transmit them. If that weren't the case, I'd be better off changing professions.

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  Dark, People, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Couture is more your own world, they come and buy head-to-toe ­ - they buy the jewelry, bags, coats, dresses, bodies underneath.... But couture is not dead ­ - it's taken another shape.

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  Taken, Dresses, Bags

  Source: www.dazeddigital.com

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• I didn't want to dress anyone in the beginning, no celebrities. Then, very slowly I started with one, two, like that. There are some celebrities whom we dress because they are part of the family. They are women I admire. I don't care how famous she is, if she is at the movies or in a concert.

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  Care, Admire

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am very happy at Givenchy and it is a moment in which I am bringing the game to the next level. I feel at home. It's as if it were my son. I don't know how to explain it. It would be very difficult for me to leave.

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  Home, Son, Moments

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think my heart is in a very good place. And I think this is why I'm achieving what I've been asking to do in the universe for so long.

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  Heart, Thinking, Long

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• When I was young, especially when I was at school, I thought couture was about big gowns, big hats (that is couture as well, of course) - but my couture is about going near the clothes and having a look at the details. I like people to have a shock in a chic way.

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  School, Clothes, People

  Source: www.dazeddigital.com

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• With couture you have faithfulness - people are faithful to you. In couture, you will see that the cut looks like a lace dress from a distance, but it's only when you get nearer you understand that it's layers of lace, hand stitched in a certain shape, all the work - the zips, the buttons, the hooks... it goes on.

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  Distance, Cutting, Hands

  Source: www.dazeddigital.com

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