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Marco Zanini

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[Wikipedia] Marco Zanini is an Italian fashion designer. He is most noted for serving as creative director of Schiaparelli in 2014, overseeing the couture fashion house's first runway show since the closure of Maison Schiaparelli 1954. This came after having led the successful revival at Halston and Rochas.

Quotes by Marco Zanini

Integrity is the distinctive Santoni trait. Their attention for the longevity of good product matches the widely-felt need for fashion that's less…

Attention

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Schiaparelli was almost like a pop artist. Even the first sweater had a naive visual impact. You immediately get it, and you…

Art

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Especially as a teenager, you were so fond of Schiaparelli because she was slightly extreme, rebellious, and iconoclastic as well. That appeals…

Extreme

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In fashion, there's huge pressure to produce results in no time. But you cannot guarantee numbers, because fashion gravitates around desire.

Desire

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When I think resort, I think prettiness.

I think

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It's couture. Everything has to be done by hand. That is most important. That is the crucial element. Without it, that is…

Couture

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Schiaparelli, for me, is about eclecticism.

About

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Schiaparelli symbolizes the capacity to think and create in a different way.

Capacity

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Fashion means never to look too much backwards. It always needs to go forwards.

Always

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We are all human, and mistakes are just around the corner, but experience lets you try to avoid them.

Around the corner

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I love the personality of Schiaparelli so much.

I love

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When I was 10 or 11, I started to sketch, and my drawings happened to be like fashion drawings... I'm lucky to…

Chase

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Real luxury is a balance between quality and the affection you feel for an object that cannot be easily replicated.

Balance

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The biggest and most interesting challenge is to bring Elsa Schiaparelli's legacy to the present and the future. She had an exceptional,…

Ahead

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As long as I have fashion memories, Schiaparelli has been there.

Been

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A product that wants to stand out needs different treatment.

Needs

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Luxury is not a $4,000 T-shirt - that's just an expensive item, the same as if a can of Coca-Cola cost $5,000.

Expensive

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I've never liked to conceptualize too much about fashion, like it was art or science, which it is not. But it's nice…

Art

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A Schiaparelli woman is not about cliche.

About

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I'm always looking for signs.

Always

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