42 Quotes by Riccardo Tisci

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

Even though I had a fantastic family, I always felt lonely – not lonely in the melancholic way but knowing that, to really survive, I have to do everything for myself. I had to work and study, and I was out in the street really surviving, bringing food back home.

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

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.

I used to hate to go to school, because when it was Friday afternoon and everybody was finished school, I knew I was going to work Saturday and Sunday.

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

I’ve always been obsessed with things that are half animal and half human – like mermaids and Minotaurs – because they are trapped in an animal body. And I felt trapped in my own life.

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

In Italy, especially in ’70s and ’80s, there was a lot of racism between north and south. And my mom immigrated from the south to the north, from Puglia, the heel of Italy. But what made me feel different was society, not my family.