These five years as a couturier have really changed my way of seeing fashion and my confidence with fashion. Couture is a… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
I try to destroy taboo in fashion-which is something I learned as a kid. I come from the street, and you have… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
For me, fashion is a job. I love it. It's my passion. But the most important thing for me in general is… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
In prêt-à-porter now we understandably need to make the collection satisfy the big market more, so couture is extra special. — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
The couture client wants the latest things, but she wants the clothes to be super-special - the fabrics won't even touch or… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
No matter how much people in fashion think we're so cool and avant-garde, for most fashion people, creativity is quite taboo. — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
I didn't know I was going to become a designer; I was going to become a successful person, but I really wanted… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
Couture is emotion. Couture is freedom. Couture is not thinking about pricing and not thinking about craziness. You can do whatever you… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
I am one who is very meridione - Southern Italian. I am proud of this. I design everything with my team, which… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
Couture was only for rich people. Givenchy was for rich people. A bag cost 5,000 euro; a coat cost 10,000 euro. In… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
When I was young, especially when I was at school, I thought couture was about big gowns, big hats (that is couture… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
For me, aesthetically, Donatella Versace represent what the Italian woman is. There is always the American rock thing, the aristocratic, above-the-rest British… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
What I very much admire about the Versace maison, and what I am still trying to learn to do myself as I… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
When I do a show I have such high emotion; the energy is amazing - but, people don't really see the details… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
Sex is something I live very well, but it is something I revealed very slowly in my fashion. What I do is… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
My obsession when I was kid, from '85 into the '90s, was Gianni Versace. It was Helmut Lang. It was Margiela. So… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
When I arrived here at Givenchy, there was a lot of confusion. Before me, there had been some great geniuses - John… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
I don't have anything against homes for the elderly, but my mom, after having nine children, after all the sacrifices, living in… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
Couture is also a matter of respect. In the end, all of these women sewing and embroidering the clothes, whom are almost… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
I started to draw and design clothes that I couldn't find, because everything was all luxury, fashion clothes or very straight. So… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
We are Italian. We are all little tribes - not only in fashion, but also in music - in everything, basically. — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
If I am in fashion, it is really due to very few designers that I admire - not because I don't like… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
This is very much part of my style, I work a lot on the back - I love the back of… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
I am very happy at Givenchy and it is a moment in which I am bringing the game to the next level.… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
I didn't invent hot water. But when I approach menswear, I do it in a very honest way. And my menswear and… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
Couture is more your own world, they come and buy head-to-toe - they buy the jewelry, bags, coats, dresses, bodies underneath…… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
With couture you have faithfulness - people are faithful to you. In couture, you will see that the cut looks like a… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
When I was 12, I used to dress as a woman in the house. At the time, cross-dressing was a big taboo… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
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… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share
The aborigines in Australia, the way they dress is very honest; it's not about: "Oh, you wear a skirt, you're gay." — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share
My relationship with religion is very strong because it was my hope, and it gave me two things very important in my life. It… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share
In spite of the fact that everyone thinks I am very much a rottweiler - that i am very dark and everything - I… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share
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… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share
I suffered a lot when there was, like, a birthday party and I was not invited. Not because I was ugly or stupid; I… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share
The elegance of the Italian South is a very strong elegance and it is one that I bring. It is a sexy elegance -… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share
My inspiration comes from many sources, and one of those sources is precisely the maison Versace. When I was a little boy, my family… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share
I arrived here, with a destroyed house, with nothing. I had to do everything very slowly. And with a little team and a great… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share
There are some people whom I esteem and want their opinion first, but that's my way. It is difficult for me to delegate. In… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share
I am one who is very meridione - Southern Italian. I am proud of this. I design everything with my team, which is fantastic… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share
My friends were like, "Oh, this weekend, we're going to go shopping." "Oh, this weekend I'm going to go to see the judo champion"… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share
When I went to England, to Saint Martins, I was traumatized, in a positive way. It was that British sense of transgression and the… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share
Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me. — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share
