Riccardo Tisci
Riccardo Tisci is an Italian fashion designer, personal stylist, and costume designer, born on August 1, 1974, in Taranto, Italy.
Tisci received his education at Central Saint Martins in London. This training informed his subsequent work across multiple roles within the fashion and design industries. Beyond his practice as a fashion designer, he has also worked as a personal stylist, extending his professional activity across different modes of engagement with clothing and appearance.
The disciplines of fashion design, costume design, and personal styling are all recurring features of Tisci's professional output. His identity as an Italian citizen, together with his origins in Taranto, connects him to the Italian language and culture. The combination of fashion design and costume design marks a consistent thread running through his career, reflecting a practice that moves between garment creation and the dressing of performers or subjects within broader visual or staged contexts.
Quotes by Riccardo Tisci
No matter how much people in fashion think we’re so cool and avant-garde, for most fashion people, creativity is quite taboo.
I’ve had this sensibility since I was a child. If there was a black boy in the school, I was the friend. If there was an effeminate guy, I was the friend. If there was somebody who was poor like me, I was the friend.
I’ve got what I want, and I’ve got the luck to express myself and to be paid and to do what I do as a creative person.
People’s wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress.
When I started at 9, I was working with plaster. I worked with a florist. It was a little illegal for kids to work. They would give you tips because they couldn’t really give you wages.
Every two to three weeks, I was changing around my room. My room was made out of nothing, basically – a magazine, a little radio, a little bed – and I had the sensibility to put things together and match things in a certain way so that they were very special.
I can give a beautiful present, and that may change the lives of people around me.
I think my heart is in a very good place. And I think this is why I’m achieving what I’ve been asking to do in the universe for so long.
We didn’t have a television, so we sat around the table, and me and my sisters and my mom would do these jobs, like, a penny for a piece, you know, these paper jobs. You know, what really saved me as a human today is my sisters and my mom.
In the beginning I didn’t want to do a menswear collection. It felt a little forced. And then I found that it was an amazing world.