I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it’s one small piece of art.
Roberto CavalliFashion 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 CavalliNature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'
Roberto CavalliIn the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.
Roberto CavalliToday, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.
Roberto CavalliI'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.
Roberto CavalliI 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 CavalliI 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 CavalliI tried immediately to have a baby because I was so afraid not to have a baby in my life.
Roberto CavalliI really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.
Roberto CavalliI 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 CavalliSometimes women are afraid to be sexy and women should know that sometimes a dress can change her life
Roberto CavalliI copy the dress of an animal because I love to copy God. I think God is the most fantastic designer.
Roberto CavalliIt’s difficult to create fashion, you can’t just learn it, you have to have fashion in your DNA.
Roberto CavalliI 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 CavalliThe 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 CavalliMy 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 CavalliIf somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.
Roberto CavalliI love women in all their different incarnations. My friends are practically all women. They are much more intelligent than men.
Roberto CavalliSometimes, 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 CavalliI 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 CavalliMy 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.
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