Riccardo Tisci Quotes

I come from a very poor family, with sisters. I never really knew my father, so I miss this strong image of a man in my life.

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.

I brought a lot of the codification of womenswear to menswear. Why? Because when I was a child, I was wearing women's clothes adjusted to me.

Black is always elegant. It is the most complete colour in the whole world, made of all the colours in the palette.

My definition of beauty is something between extremely ugly and extremely fantastic.

I love art and music more than I love fashion, to be honest,

I always think about the streets because that's where I come from and that's where I'm going to die one day. That is my life.

My life has changed financially and I have a name, but I try to never forget people on my journey.

Religion and love don't have a price, don't have a gender, a skin color, nothing. We are all on the same plate.

I tried to never exclude people. I know what it means to be left out.

I try to destroy taboo in fashion-which is something I learned as a kid. I come from the street, and you have to be a survivor,

No matter how much people in fashion think we're so cool and avant-garde, for most fashion people, creativity is quite taboo.

I'm very faithful to myself. When you do things that are true it just comes out quite instinctively.

I've got what I want, and I've got the luck to express myself and to be paid and to do what I do as a creative person.

For me, darkness is something very beautiful,

I'm very well off but I can stay with normal people. I can do a super-luxury life, but I can do a very normal life and I'm not scared.

The aborigines in Australia, the way they dress is very honest; it's not about: "Oh, you wear a skirt, you're gay."

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.

Anything I do, I do with my heart. This is why I sometimes get very upset or sometimes get very personal when I'm working.

People's wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress.

I am interested in beauty when it has something special and mysterious.

When I was far away, when I prayed every night, I felt I was very near with my heart, with my brain, to my sisters and my mom.

I had only two girlfriends. I didn't have many friends because I was staying at home and dreaming - drawing and dreaming.

Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me.

I think my heart is in a very good place. And I think this is why I'm achieving what I've been asking to do in the universe for so long.

I can give a beautiful present, and that may change the lives of people around me.