Quotes by Riccardo Tisci

Riccardo Tisci

At the beginning, I didn’t see what Givenchy could give my career. It was like, “Okay, I’ll do it for the money for a few years to help my mom and my sisters.”

Careers

Mom

Years

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

Black

Made

World

Couture was only for rich people. Givenchy was for rich people. A bag cost 5,000 euro; a coat cost 10,000 euro. In the beginning, I couldn’t react. I was just working like a machine, because I wanted to make the house happy.

Bags

House

People

Even at the beginning when I arrived at Givenchy, there were certainly people who supported me, but not everyone loved me. They were saying, “Why an Italian who acts Gothic?” Never mind the fact that Italy is one of the main exhibitors of Gothic art in the world. But it was like, “No, Italians should only do sexy!”

Art

Italian

Sexy

Even though I had a fantastic family, I always felt lonely – not lonely in the melancholic way but knowing that, to really survive, I have to do everything for myself. I had to work and study, and I was out in the street really surviving, bringing food back home.

Home

Knowing

Lonely

Every two to three weeks, I was changing around my room. My room was made out of nothing, basically – a magazine, a little radio, a little bed – and I had the sensibility to put things together and match things in a certain way so that they were very special.

Special

Together

Two

For me, aesthetically, Donatella Versace represent what the Italian woman is. There is always the American rock thing, the aristocratic, above-the-rest British manner, but Italy is at the heart of it.

Heart

Italian

Versace

For me, darkness is something very beautiful.

Beautiful

Darkness

Very Beautiful

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.

One Day

Streets

Thinking

I am one who is very meridione – Southern Italian. I am proud of this. I design everything with my team, which is fantastic and small. I design by look. For example, people always comment to me, “When you do men’s shirts, you always keep them closed on the catwalk.” That’s my thing.

Italian

People

Team

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Couture

Creativity

Culture

Dad

Dark

Darkness

Definitions

Details

Different

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Drug

Emotion

Eye

Faithful

Fantastic

Fashion

Father

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Hate

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Honest

House

I Believe

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Important

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Quotes by Riccardo Tisci

Riccardo Tisci

At the beginning, I didn’t see what Givenchy could give my career. It was like, “Okay, I’ll do it for the money for a few years to help my mom and my sisters.”

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

Couture was only for rich people. Givenchy was for rich people. A bag cost 5,000 euro; a coat cost 10,000 euro. In the beginning, I couldn’t react. I was just working like a machine, because I wanted to make the house happy.

Even though I had a fantastic family, I always felt lonely – not lonely in the melancholic way but knowing that, to really survive, I have to do everything for myself. I had to work and study, and I was out in the street really surviving, bringing food back home.

Every two to three weeks, I was changing around my room. My room was made out of nothing, basically – a magazine, a little radio, a little bed – and I had the sensibility to put things together and match things in a certain way so that they were very special.

For me, aesthetically, Donatella Versace represent what the Italian woman is. There is always the American rock thing, the aristocratic, above-the-rest British manner, but Italy is at the heart of it.

For me, darkness is something very beautiful.

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.

I am one who is very meridione – Southern Italian. I am proud of this. I design everything with my team, which is fantastic and small. I design by look. For example, people always comment to me, “When you do men’s shirts, you always keep them closed on the catwalk.” That’s my thing.

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