Garavani Valentino Quotes & Sayings

My title rivals are behind me but at the moment I am not thinking about that. My target is to finish on the podium and then well see where everybody else is. — Valentino Garavani

I like things simple. — Valentino Garavani

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time. — Rebecca West

The love of science, and the energy and honesty in the pursuit of science, in the best of the Aryan races do seem to correspond in a remarkable way to the love of conduct, and the energy and honesty in the pursuit of conduct, in the best of the Semitic. — Matthew Arnold

I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track. — Valentino Garavani

A harem," she murmured into his neck and laughed at last at the notion. "I can't believe you had a harem. You are hilarious, Stuart." He laughed. At himself.
"I hated men. I loved women. I wanted them all. It seemed logical to start to accumulate them. — Judith Ivory

I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. — Laura Regan

The proof of the depth and embodiment of your realization will be seen in your love relationship. That's where the proof is in the pudding. If it all collapses in your relationship, you have some work to do. And people do have a lot of difficulties in their relationships. — Adyashanti

I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated. — Valentino Garavani

Only wear clothes that make you feel alive. — Valentino Garavani

It's the most amazing feeling to hold your child in your arms. — Chris O'Donnell

There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people. — Valentino Garavani

I hope people will say, 'Mr. Valentino, he did something for fashion, no?' — Valentino Garavani

When I entertain at home, I take time and pleasure in the small details that make all the difference. Entertaining is about giving to people and sharing with them. — Valentino Garavani

PORTER
This is a lot of knocking! Come to think of it, if a man were in charge of opening the gates of hell to let people in, he would have to turn the key a lot. — William Shakespeare

Very few designers today design - it's very important to be able to do your own sketch on paper and then explain [your vision] to the fabric cutters. Instead, lots of designers drape - it's the new way. — Valentino Garavani

Elegance is the balance between PROPORTION, EMOTION & SURPRISE. — Valentino Garavani

In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes. — Zadie Smith

O how wonderful life is, how miraculous, God made this and God made that", "how do you know he doesn't hate what He did: He might even be drunk and not noticing what he went and done tho of course that's not true — Jack Kerouac

Even with him in me I ache for him, and it's that aching that brings me rapidly to the brink. — Kyra Davis

I am always locked in my design studio. — Valentino Garavani

..IN TO COME MOVE
LIVE THE MOMENT.
KEEP AT IT!
PLUCK ON ENTICE.
" THERE IS A EVERYTHING
LIVE, IN 1 MINUTE
IN THE LOVE "! — Valentino Garavani

My first year, people were interested in me because I was new. Then the press started to come. — Valentino Garavani

I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture. — Valentino Garavani

French people are charming, adorable but not extremely generous with foreigners, but they believe in what they do. I feel proud in exchange because what I did in restoration is something I did for La France. — Valentino Garavani

I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion. — Valentino Garavani

Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back ... ready to be put in the garbage. — Valentino Garavani

An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen. — Valentino Garavani

Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence. — Alexander Hamilton

Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that. — Valentino Garavani

I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business. — Valentino Garavani

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. — Will Rogers

I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it. — Valentino Garavani

I love my beauty. It's not my fault. — Valentino Garavani

It is preferable to have a virgin mind than a virgin body. Each is good if each be possible; if it be not possible, let me be chaste, not to man but to God. — Ambrose Of Milan

I put the number 7 on my t-shirt because this is the number of my championships but also because it was the number of Barry Sheene, who was a great hero of mine and a truly great racer, — Valentino Garavani

I know what women want. They want to be beautiful. — Valentino Garavani

Luck is one thing. It has always been there, it has always been a part of my success. It's a part of everyone's success. Without it, you can't be successful. But luck is something you have to stimulate, something you have to nurture through the choices you make ... That's why things have always worked out for me. Things work out not just because I'm lucky, but because I plan ahead. I figure out what I want and I go for it. I've always spent a lot of time trying to surround myself with the right people, the kinds of teammates who could lead me to my goals. — Valentino Garavani