Riccardo Tisci

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

— Riccardo Tisci

For me, darkness is something very beautiful,

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

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I tried to never exclude people. I know what it means to be left out.

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My definition of beauty is something between extremely ugly and extremely fantastic.

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Being a creative mind, you have to examine who you are every day.

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I am interested in beauty when it has something special and mysterious.

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My truth is this: That I don't know what will happen tomorrow because you can never know.

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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…

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In prêt-à-porter now we understandably need to make the collection satisfy the big market more, so couture is extra special.

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My friends were like, "Oh, this weekend, we're going to go shopping." "Oh, this weekend I'm going to go to see the…

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I try to destroy taboo in fashion-which is something I learned as a kid. I come from the street, and you have…

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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…

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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…

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These five years as a couturier have really changed my way of seeing fashion and my confidence with fashion. Couture is a…

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Religion and love don't have a price, don't have a gender, a skin color, nothing. We are all on the same plate.

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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…

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I've had this sensibility since I was a child. If there was a black boy in the school, I was the friend.…

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What I very much admire about the Versace maison, and what I am still trying to learn to do myself as I…

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When I do a show I have such high emotion; the energy is amazing - but, people don't really see the details…

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I do the final fitting because the client wants me there. They're not spoilt, they really understand that you're very busy, but…

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I've always been obsessed with things that are half animal and half human - like mermaids and Minotaurs - because they are…

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Even at the beginning when I arrived at Givenchy, there were certainly people who supported me, but not everyone loved me. They…

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For me, aesthetically, Donatella Versace represent what the Italian woman is. There is always the American rock thing, the aristocratic, above-the-rest British…

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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,…

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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…

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I don't have anything against homes for the elderly, but my mom, after having nine children, after all the sacrifices, living in…

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I am very attracted to the United States. Why? Well, as a little kid from Southern Italy, not from a wealthy family,…

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I like when a man has one strong accessory. If it's a watch, it has to be major. If you have strong…

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It's super-essential. Even though I don't have a very big team, for me, the word muse may be démodé or not. I…

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If you buy a Cartier ring you want people to know it is a Cartier ring or a diamond, or a piece…

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My mom always said to us, "You cannot judge anybody because of the color of skin." There were a lot of African…

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I believe that couture is not about shocking.

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People's wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress.

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I brought a lot of the codification of womenswear to menswear. Why? Because when I was a child, I was wearing women's…

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My life has changed financially and I have a name, but I try to never forget people on my journey.

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Couture is emotion. Couture is freedom. Couture is not thinking about pricing and not thinking about craziness. You can do whatever you…

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When I was far away, when I prayed every night, I felt I was very near with my heart, with my brain,…

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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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In the beginning I didn't want to do a menswear collection. It felt a little forced. And then I found that it…

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