182 Quotes by Donatella Versace

I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.

I think my own look makes people think I'm tough, but when they get to know me I'm very different.

I think there was a time when I was too strict and controlling. I think I asphyxiated my children.

In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame.

Powerful women intimidate men. If she's a really well-known woman, she has a career, she's famous - in that case, men are really afraid.

We all retire one day. If we want to, if we don't want to.

Women are all the same; we want to be smaller in the waist, longer legs, slimmer. I design for women and their defects, to make them better.

I love the mix of people who hang out at nightclubs now. Their individuality is an inspiration to me. The music they listen to, the clothes they wear and the way they wear them defines a street style that I love.

At that time of the supermodels, celebrities didn't want to be in fashion; they thought they were more intellectual and interesting than anyone in fashion.