Quotes By Roberto Cavalli

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

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

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

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

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.

Every woman inspires me.

Normally, I never dress up.

It is important to be chic.

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

Maybe I think too much.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist.

I think God is the most fantastic designer.

Today the world is a big jungle.

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

Excess is success.

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

With time, fashion has become part of my DNA.

I love you if you love me.

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.

I learn much more by traveling by myself.

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.

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.

I enjoy seeing people have fun.

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

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.

I love being a fashion designer.