Roberto Cavalli's Quotes

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

I think God is the most fantastic designer.

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

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

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

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

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

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

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

Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist.

Maybe I think too much.

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

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

Normally, I never dress up.

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.

Today the world is a big jungle.

What is too much? There is no such thing!

With time, fashion has become part of my DNA.

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 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 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 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.

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.