I tried to never exclude people. I know what it means to be left out. Riccardo Tisci More Quotes by Riccardo Tisci More Quotes From Riccardo Tisci I love art and music more than I love fashion, to be honest. Riccardo Tisci honest fashion art I didn't know I was going to become a designer; I was going to become a successful person, but I really wanted to be free. Riccardo Tisci designer successful wanted I had only two girlfriends. I didn't have many friends because I was staying at home and dreaming - drawing and dreaming. Riccardo Tisci girlfriend dream home What I very much admire about the Versace maison, and what I am still trying to learn to do myself as I am still young, is that from day one until today, Versace is the peak of sexy but never crosses that red line into the vulgar. Riccardo Tisci sexy trying today One thing my mom didn't want any of us to do was to cry or to complain about life. Every day and night, even when we didn't have much food, we would pray together. And that for me was a beautiful moment. The fact of being poor didn't really hurt me. Riccardo Tisci mom hurt beautiful I do the final fitting because the client wants me there. They're not spoilt, they really understand that you're very busy, but they just want you to say what you think - for just ten minutes. They really want to know your opinion because it really is a service at the end of the day, a luxury service. Riccardo Tisci luxury the-end-of-the-day thinking These five years as a couturier have really changed my way of seeing fashion and my confidence with fashion. Couture is a dream. Riccardo Tisci fashion dream years This is very much part of my style, I work a lot on the back - I love the back of clothes for men. I love even T-shirts printed behind. I think, "Why do you want to show only the front?" Riccardo Tisci clothes men thinking When I do a show I have such high emotion; the energy is amazing - but, people don't really see the details and the work and the experimentation that we, the designers, put into the clothes. With prêt-à-porter you're having a look. Riccardo Tisci details clothes people 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. Riccardo Tisci emotion want thinking The couture client wants the latest things, but she wants the clothes to be super-special - the fabrics won't even touch or go near anything like prêt-à-porter. Riccardo Tisci clothes special want I believe that couture is not about shocking. Riccardo Tisci couture i-believe believe 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. Riccardo Tisci your-face opinion hate When I was young, especially when I was at school, I thought couture was about big gowns, big hats (that is couture as well, of course) - but my couture is about going near the clothes and having a look at the details. I like people to have a shock in a chic way. Riccardo Tisci clothes people school In the beginning, to be honest I was super-scared. I turned up and took a step back and said, 'I am here to learn,' and I feel the same today. I've got only to learn from these people because they have been doing couture for 30 or 40 years, so I keep learning every season. Riccardo Tisci steps people years In prêt-à-porter now we understandably need to make the collection satisfy the big market more, so couture is extra special. Riccardo Tisci bigs special needs My truth is this: That I don't know what will happen tomorrow because you can never know. Riccardo Tisci truth-is tomorrow I started to draw and design clothes that I couldn't find, because everything was all luxury, fashion clothes or very straight. So I mixed all of that together: Who says I can't put a man in a skirt? Who says that a man can't wear lace? Who says that men can't wear Swarovski? Who says that men can't wear makeup? You know what I'm like; for me, straight, gay, women, men, trans, we're all the same. I don't see difference. Riccardo Tisci makeup fashion gay In the beginning I didn't want to do a menswear collection. It felt a little forced. And then I found that it was an amazing world. Riccardo Tisci want littles world 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. Riccardo Tisci special together two
