The way you dress is an expression of your personality.
Alessandro Michele
I adore pink; it’s very powerful. It makes you feel sweet and sexy, also if you are a man.
Alessandro Michele
The way you dress is really the way you feel, the way you live, what you read, your choices. That’s what I want to put into Gucci.
Alessandro Michele
Fashion is the most beautiful illusion you can have.
Alessandro Michele
Luxury means that you show the way you dress with eccentricity.
Alessandro Michele
There should be no boundaries, no hierarchy, no violence. Men and women are equal.
Alessandro Michele
There is something in Shanghai that is very exciting and alive – the idea of a city with two different souls, one from today and another from a long time ago, is amazing.
Alessandro Michele
Beauty has no boundaries, no rules, no colors. Beauty is like a religion. You can include everything inside it.
Alessandro Michele
This is the power of fashion: the capability of allowing people to express themselves.
Alessandro Michele
Clothes are endless possibilities for meaning because with every change or different association, you are a different person.
Alessandro Michele
I think that there is not really a difference between a ‘Peanuts’ and a beautiful Renaissance painting. There is something very romantic in the ‘Peanuts’ – it’s at the same level of a novel or a Jane Austen story or a beautiful embroidered rose fabric. It is a piece of romanticism.
Alessandro Michele
With a brand like Gucci, you have to give something that belongs to beautiful Italian culture in terms of craftsmanship and materials.
Alessandro Michele
There is something special about the beauty in the unclear, the ambiguity, the in-between that you can’t totally recognise.
Alessandro Michele
I love taking prints, embroidery, appliques – precious things that seem to be from another time – and using them to create a contemporary, new story.
Alessandro Michele
I’m obsessed with trompe l’oeil – the idea of something that is existing and is not existing.
Alessandro Michele
I like it when I see people dressed on the street, and it looks like Gucci, but it’s not. It means you are doing something right.
Alessandro Michele
Vintage is my vocabulary… like the notes of a musician.
Alessandro Michele
Trees and flowers are so important. The idea of blooming is the idea of becoming something different.
Alessandro Michele
Fashion is not about product; it’s about an interesting idea that you can’t resist buying into.
Alessandro Michele
I’m not conscious of being a revolutionary. This is my life, looking through my glasses at my little world, but this world seems to be full of people who understand it.
Alessandro Michele
I spend a lot of time in Paris, in Milan, and in New York, and Rome is a little bit different. There is something in Rome, incredible, like in a Fellini movie. Everybody’s screaming and laughing very loud. It’s something that can give me more energy in terms of freedom.
Alessandro Michele
I’ve always been intrigued and fascinated by Gaga. She is a chameleon; she has the capability to fully express her individuality and her eclectic personality by simply being herself.
Alessandro Michele
Westminster is a piece of this city’s energy, something the contemporary world has forgotten.
Alessandro Michele
If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.
Alessandro Michele
When I started to work at Gucci, I tried literally to destroy everything.
Alessandro Michele
The only urgency I feel is to keep on, at a slow pace, with my journey.
Alessandro Michele
I have a big passion for flowers and nature.
Alessandro Michele
I am a collector of jewels, old jewels.
Alessandro Michele
My way to think about creation is like the end of the world. I love confusion. So music and image, picture, fabrics, people, person, talk: That’s my way to work. And food. And perfumes. I love perfumes. And flowers and plants, and dresses and vintage.
Alessandro Michele
My father was a shaman. He told me that time doesn’t exist. He didn’t use a clock. He didn’t know when my birthday was.
Alessandro Michele
I understand that people want to see just the posh side of fashion, but fashion is a lot of work.
Alessandro Michele
I’m a collector of everything.
Alessandro Michele
I really don’t consider Kim Kardashian sexy. She’s like one of those primordial sculptures of fertility, like the Venus of Willendorf.
Alessandro Michele
I have something inside of me that every day tells me that nature and beauty is the soul, the meaning, of our life. And I also love Hollywood and cinema.
Alessandro Michele
I become mad when I work. It’s like a fever that grows; I don’t need to choose just one thing.
Alessandro Michele
I am always connected with the Renaissance a lot; that’s why I am connected with Pitti Palace.
Alessandro Michele
You have to be open to dreaming. It’s a complicated language, but I’m obsessed with it.
Alessandro Michele
My idea for Gucci was crazy, but that’s the only idea I had. I was sure I’d be fired after the first show.
Alessandro Michele
Snoopy was a philosopher in a way.
Alessandro Michele
The only dream I have in my life is to be a little piece of my dad, because he was really happy.
Alessandro Michele
I think we need to dream.
Alessandro Michele
My life – it’s a piece of work. And my work is a piece of life.
Alessandro Michele
All of us, we are not one thing: we’re always between two worlds, and the idea of not being sure is very appealing to me.
Alessandro Michele
Creativity is not about the fame.
Alessandro Michele
The idea that I’m 45 doesn’t mean that I have no creativity. I’m like a student: it’s the same – it’s not a war!
Alessandro Michele
I just try to see what happens when you put your feet on the accelerator.
Alessandro Michele
Fashion should be genderless; how people perceive the idea of beauty can vary from one to another.
Alessandro Michele
In fashion, people are very focused on the future, but I really love to talk about the present.
Alessandro Michele
The future is not so interesting for me because the future doesn’t exist. I am really focused on the contemporary.
Alessandro Michele
I love to mix everything together. It’s really my way to see beauty.
Alessandro Michele
I think if you work with different kinds of codes, attitudes, in the end you have a language. It’s like within a person. You are not always the same.
Alessandro Michele
We live in a world that is full of product. We have too much.
Alessandro Michele