Sex is something I live very well, but it is something I revealed very slowly in my fashion. What I do is… — Riccardo Tisci Emotional Copy Share Image
I am close friends with Marina Abamovich, so I love strong, very aggressive political art. She is like a mom who wants… — Riccardo Tisci Aggressive 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 Admire 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 Can do 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 Clothes Copy Share Image
My mom didn't teach me about Marco Polo. She didn't teach me about Napoleon. She didn't teach me about any of that.… — Riccardo Tisci Being a good person Copy Share Image
In Italy, especially in '70s and '80s, there was a lot of racism between north and south. And my mom immigrated from… — Riccardo Tisci 80s Copy Share Image
We didn't have a television, so we sat around the table, and me and my sisters and my mom would do these… — Riccardo Tisci Humans Copy Share Image
I've always been obsessed with things that are half animal and half human - like mermaids and Minotaurs - because they are… — Riccardo Tisci Animal Copy Share Image
I was lucky. From the time I was a little, I was always surrounded by women, and I am very attracted to… — Riccardo Tisci Feminine 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 Addict Copy Share Image
I always think about the streets because that's where I come from and that's where I'm going to die one day. That… — Riccardo Tisci Dies 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 Bags Copy Share Image
I was the last one of nine kids - eight girls and me last - and my sisters were going out. They… — Riccardo Tisci Amazing things Copy Share Image
My definition of beauty is something between extremely ugly and extremely fantastic. — Riccardo Tisci Beauty Copy Share Image
At the beginning, I didn't see what Givenchy could give my career. It was like, "Okay, I'll do it for the money… — Riccardo Tisci Career 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 Anxiety Copy Share Image
I'm very well off but I can stay with normal people. I can do a super-luxury life, but I can do a… — Riccardo Tisci Can do Copy Share Image
I love hip-hop and R&B. People always say, "You are dark, you make dark dresses. You probably only love The Cure or… — Riccardo Tisci Dark Copy Share Image
Anything I do, I do with my heart. This is why I sometimes get very upset or sometimes get very personal when… — Riccardo Tisci Heart 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 Admire Copy Share Image
When I started, everyone said couture was finished and I was so scared. Actually I was more terrorized than scared. I was… — Riccardo Tisci Scared Copy Share Image
I brought a lot of the codification of womenswear to menswear. Why? Because when I was a child, I was wearing women's… — Riccardo Tisci Children 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 Heart 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 Designer Copy Share Image
