Riccardo Tisci Quotes

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

Black is always elegant. It is the most complete colour in the whole world, made of all the colours in the palette.

Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me.

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

Couture is emotion. Couture is freedom. Couture is not thinking about pricing and not thinking about craziness. You can do whatever you want to do in couture.

For me, darkness is something very beautiful.

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

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

I’m very faithful to myself. When you do things that are true it just comes out quite instinctively.

To leave Italy at 17 without money and go to a country like England is very rare; Italians stay with the family until 30, 35. But I couldn't stand to live in this box anymore. I was getting bigger, and the box was getting smaller.

I like when a man has one strong accessory. If it's a watch, it has to be major. If you have strong shoes, it should just be the shoes. I don't like when a man is overdone-that's just bad taste. Coco Chanel was always saying you have to watch yourself in the mirror, put on a lot of things, and then take them off. I think it should be that way for men as well.

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

Anything I do, I do with my heart. This is why I sometimes get very upset or sometimes get very personal when I'm working.

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

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

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 is my life.

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

I hate vulgarity. I hate vulgarity even though it attracts me - and it attracts me very much. I love all that is transgressive or vulgar. But in my opinion, it has to reach a limit that is always a little surreal and never becomes in your face.

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

If you buy a Cartier ring you want people to know it is a Cartier ring or a diamond, or a piece of art that's giving an emotion - then people read it and say, "wow that's really amazing". With prêt-à-porter you see people in the street, in a club, in a restaurant or whatever, and you think, "Oh my god, he's wearing my trousers!" In a way it's more open - people can put together the way they want - mixed with other designers.

I've always been obsessed with things that are half animal and half human - like mermaids and Minotaurs - because they are trapped in an animal body. And I felt trapped in my own life.

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

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. But she did teach me how to survive and to be a good person. And you need to be a strong woman to do that. She's the biggest person in my life. She's my Virgin Maria. That's why I love religion so much.

My obsession when I was kid, from '85 into the '90s, was Gianni Versace. It was Helmut Lang. It was Margiela. So I said, "I cannot have Givenchy only as a luxury house; I'm going to introduce products for everybody, things that are reachable."

My relationship with religion is very strong because it was my hope, and it gave me two things very important in my life. It gave me the belief and it gave me a point to reach: Don't do something bad to the people next to you.