I don't want to be too 'classic' because it's not in the DNA of Gucci. You need to be a little bit provocative.

Music has always been a dominant force in my life. As a young kid, it was a way for me to escape everyday life.

The form of computers has never been important, with speed and performance being the only things that mattered.

Even in high school, I was keenly aware of this remarkable tradition that the U.K. had of designing and making.

When you do everything to make the very best product, it also means you're very focused on just a few products.

I think architects design outside in. Or they design basically outside. They don't get in the building anymore.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

When you celebrate a new idea, it immediately comes through the way you hold yourself and the clothes you wear.

Try on 100 different hats if you can, until you find the one that suits you best. It's a trial and error thing.

You have to work very hard behind the scenes, to make a message clear enough for a lot of people to understand.

I love fashion, I love architecture and I love image making so if I can, I would put all these three in one pot.

Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.

I don't believe in delivering four times a year and then also delivering things that are not season appropriate.

When you struggle hard and lose money, you're a hero. When you start making money you become a capitalist swine.

It would be nice if all that exuberance and abundance was connected to a deep ethos of planetary responsibility.

For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.

I would say that a good shoe is exactly like a good wine. These shoes are going to stay and last for a long time.

I think every market has lot of things in common, and at the same time, every market has lot of different things.

A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation.

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

You can make them so small that they almost disappear, but I think headlights are also part of the face of a car.

When I design a car, I want people to look at it and go, 'Wow, that's kind of interesting,' and do a second take.

Being a mother adds an enormous amount of stress to your life. You need to make sure you're there for everything.

Design is a tool that allows us to reach out and inspire, to touch others and help make lives magic and wonderful

For me, true kitsch has nothing to do with irony. It's very honest. It represents what people like, their dreams.

All great cinema has the sense of the dynamic, the transitional, mixed with the mythical and the sense of ritual.

I'm not a god, I'm not a genius, I'm not a monk, I make non-design for non-consumers. I don't know if I do exist.

I went back to the factories that I worked with at Jimmy Choo because they don't work for Jimmy Choo exclusively.

People buy products, and they want to understand what those things are and how they are applicable to their life.

The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance.

You need to be ahead of the game just enough so that you can have what people want in the shops when they want it.

So much in design is presented as a big miracle when it's just a repetition of what's been happening for 80 years.

I want to create a body of work that is really, deeply important to people. One of the vehicles I use is business.

I particularly like to travel for work because you see a completely different side of the country you're visiting.

Hats are really for ultimate occasions, so when I make one, I try to do something different, something noticeable.

If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.

Choosing colours should not be a gamble. It should be a conscious decision. Colours have a meaning and a function.

All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.

People surround themselves in their houses with things they don't really need, that they have to dust all the time.

I keep my hair gray, so I like silver and platinum. For women who dye their hair, they can wear whatever they want.

Only six electronic digital computers would be required to satisfy the computing needs of the entire United States.

I hope that people remember me not just as a good businesswoman but as a great friend - and a heck of a lot of fun.

I collect memories. I look for opportunities to try new things, go to new places, and meet new people all the time.

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

I'm not a tough boss in that I don't raise my voice, I don't freak out, and I don't have a temper most of the time.

Funnily enough, the most difficult style to do is the plain pump because it needs to look good on a variety of feet.

In the same way that men wear ties to add personality to their clothing, so too should women wear their accessories.

Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.

My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.

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