Quotes from Alessandro Michele

The obsession that you have to manage everything - it's really bad.

I had two different kind of parents. My mother was obsessive with movie stars and cinema and Hollywood because she worked in movies. And my father was obsessed with beauty everywhere - in art, in nature, animals.

I love the English aesthetic; in a way, I feel it is close to my own, a beautiful chaos; it is a powerful mix of the past and the present.

I think that fashion, for a long time, has been in a prison. Without freedom. I think that without freedom, with rules, it's impossible to create a new story.

I think that there is not really a difference between a 'Peanuts' and a beautiful Renaissance painting. There is something very romantic in the 'Peanuts' - it's at the same level of a novel or a Jane Austen story or a beautiful embroidered rose fabric. It is a piece of romanticism.

The idea that a man should be wearing something different and more eccentric is obviously the oldest idea on earth.

I become mad when I work. It's like a fever that grows; I don't need to choose just one thing.

The only urgency I feel is to keep on, at a slow pace, with my journey.

For me, reworking the past over and over again is a way not to trivialise the garments and not to obsess over hem lengths. What I am interested in, as a matter of fact, is telling a story and, if someone sees fragments of other stories in it, be my guest. I don't have to justify myself. What is urgent for me is what I want to say.

I love taking prints, embroidery, appliques - precious things that seem to be from another time - and using them to create a contemporary, new story.

I like it when I see people dressed on the street, and it looks like Gucci, but it's not. It means you are doing something right.

I love couture, but the other side of me loves the street, and I think the mix of these two can create something new.

Fashion should be genderless; how people perceive the idea of beauty can vary from one to another.

I really don't consider Kim Kardashian sexy. She's like one of those primordial sculptures of fertility, like the Venus of Willendorf.

I love to give voice to things that are not very visible.

Luxury means that you show the way you dress with eccentricity.