41 Quotes by Valentino Garavani

Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back... ready to be put in the garbage.

The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.

I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion.

I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.

I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.

My normal life is like being on holiday.

My first year, people were interested in me because I was new. Then the press started to come.

I am always locked in my design studio.

I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated.