Quotes from Alessandro Michele

Beauty has no boundaries, no rules, no colors. Beauty is like a religion. You can include everything inside it.

I am always connected with the Renaissance a lot; that's why I am connected with Pitti Palace.

I think if you work with different kinds of codes, attitudes, in the end you have a language. It's like within a person. You are not always the same.

I've always been intrigued and fascinated by Gaga. She is a chameleon; she has the capability to fully express her individuality and her eclectic personality by simply being herself.

The more you are different, the more interesting. The more you are not like me, the more I want to get to know more about you.

I've been an avid collector since I was a child.

Gender and sex are about rules which we have invented, but we are animals; we belong to nature.

I am a collector of jewels, old jewels.

Trees and flowers are so important. The idea of blooming is the idea of becoming something different.

If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.

The way you dress is an expression of your personality.

It has been a marvellous experience and a great gift collaborating with Madonna. Now that I have had the chance to see her working, I truly understand why she is so grand! I believe she is a true artist, and I am crazy about her.

I think a lot of people feel that they want something softer. Things are changing. It's about individuality, and in a way, it's romantic.

Your memory is not my memory.

I have the soul of a director.

I love to mix everything together. It's really my way to see beauty.

Fashion is the most beautiful illusion you can have.

I'm not scared of beauty, but if you fall in love with a beautiful man, it's not easy. It's easier to be in love with an ugly man. Beauty has a kind of power.

There is something special about the beauty in the unclear, the ambiguity, the in-between that you can't totally recognise.

Sometimes when people talk about me in fashion, I feel - I don't want to say uncomfortable, but I still don't believe that I'm in 'fashion.'

The very beginning of European aesthetics started from Florence. Everything here was beauty, money, and creativity, the power of the good money.

I don't have a problem to say I am a good merchandiser, because I love objects.

I'm obsessed with trompe l'oeil - the idea of something that is existing and is not existing.

You have to be open to dreaming. It's a complicated language, but I'm obsessed with it.