Roberto Cavalli Quotes & Sayings

The industrial direction is sometimes too much. We should think more about fantasy. — Roberto Cavalli

I love women's fashion, but women don't need me as much as men do. It's the men who have nothing to wear. — Roberto Cavalli

I love clothes and fashion more than music — Roberto Cavalli

I think I was the first to show that a designer could be like a rock star, that people should love your fashion but also put your name together with your fashion. — Roberto Cavalli

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff. — Roberto Cavalli

Every girl creates a dream in her mind; everyone needs an idol. — Roberto Cavalli

I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough. — Roberto Cavalli

Normally, I never dress up. — Roberto Cavalli

I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry. — Roberto Cavalli

I learn much more by traveling by myself. — Roberto Cavalli

I love to spend money. — Roberto Cavalli

I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there and feel like a bird. In this moment I feel free. — Roberto Cavalli

I love you if you love me. — Roberto Cavalli

I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid. — Roberto Cavalli

The big fish run the show. I'm a middle fish, but there are small fish that are poisonous. — Roberto Cavalli

My devotion to my job started from a personal defeat: my first girlfriend's parents rejected me because i wasn't rich. I decided i would show them what a big mistake they had made. — Roberto Cavalli

I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it's one small piece of art. — Roberto Cavalli

There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is. — Roberto Cavalli

Fashion should be something that in the morning, when you open your window, you say, 'Oh fantastic, sun!' Then you take your shower, you say, 'OK fantastic, which colour I wear today because I feel happy?' This should be fashion. — Roberto Cavalli

I feel fashion needs me for many, many years more. — Roberto Cavalli

You can't just buy things for the label - it's ridiculous. — Roberto Cavalli

Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind. — Roberto Cavalli

With time, fashion has become part of my DNA. — Roberto Cavalli

I know I have to be like people expect, because people love to dream with me, they like to think that I love my boat of 50 metres, that I drink Cristal for breakfast, that I dance until five o'clock in the morning. I am not like that. — Roberto Cavalli

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom. — Roberto Cavalli

I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect. — Roberto Cavalli

I love a woman, I love to judge how beautiful she is, how beautiful I can make her. — Roberto Cavalli

What is too much? There is no such thing! — Roberto Cavalli

Israel is in my heart. — Roberto Cavalli

Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself. — Roberto Cavalli

Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist' — Roberto Cavalli

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special. — Roberto Cavalli

Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature. — Roberto Cavalli

I love being a fashion designer. — Roberto Cavalli

I love women in all their different incarnations. My friends are practically all women. They are much more intelligent than men. — Roberto Cavalli

It is important to be chic. — Roberto Cavalli

When I go to a restaurant and they say, 'We're fully booked,' I say, 'It's Roberto Cavalli,' and they say, 'I will check'. I love it! — Roberto Cavalli

My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles I went to fashion. — Roberto Cavalli

I meet people, I like to ask: which sign are you? — Roberto Cavalli

Excess is success. — Roberto Cavalli

Today the world is a big jungle. — Roberto Cavalli

Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist. — Roberto Cavalli

Maybe I think too much. — Roberto Cavalli

Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want. — Roberto Cavalli

I think God is the most fantastic designer. — Roberto Cavalli

I want men to be more chic - and Japanese style has that kind of sophisticated elegance. — Roberto Cavalli

Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak. — Roberto Cavalli

It's difficult to create fashion, you can't just learn it, you have to have fashion in your DNA. — Roberto Cavalli

In my planet, fashion, I'm the only straight man. — Roberto Cavalli

Money is the most corrosive aspect of life today because it means that all attention to detail is forgotten. — Roberto Cavalli

I tried immediately to have a baby because I was so afraid not to have a baby in my life. — Roberto Cavalli

My name is very often associated with parties and entertaining, but it's not true. I am not such a party person. — Roberto Cavalli

A beautiful dress can be as exciting as a poem. — Roberto Cavalli

I really don't understand minimalism. It is so polite and boring. If you don't want anyone to notice you, you should stay home and grow your own vegetables. — Roberto Cavalli

Sometimes women are afraid to be sexy and women should know that sometimes a dress can change her life — Roberto Cavalli

I enjoy seeing people have fun. — Roberto Cavalli

In the evening every man looks the same. Like penguins. Women have a special dress for that event; men, the same tuxedo. — Roberto Cavalli