"Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much."

"I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion."

"In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame."

"Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas."

"Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person."

"I like perfume and flowers."

"It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it."

"Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine."