Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won`t recognize them if they change that much.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

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

I like perfume and flowers.

In Italian there is an expression: We don`t sleep on the fame.

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.

You can`t pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It`s better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That`s dangerous.

Gianni created the whole thing. I came later and helped him.

I don`t like my physique at all.

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