42 Quotes by Riccardo Tisci

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 remember that my sisters gave me this beautiful, like, empty book for Christmas. And I would draw all these beautiful women. Most of the time it was mermaids and a Minotaur: half human, half animal. I used to be obsessed with Minotaurs when I was a child.

One thing my mom didn’t want any of us to do was to cry or to complain about life. Every day and night, even when we didn’t have much food, we would pray together. And that for me was a beautiful moment. The fact of being poor didn’t really hurt me.

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.