Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
Glamour is back, but with a minimalist touch.
Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense.
I hope the people remember Dolce & Gabbana for the sensuality, for the Mediterranean sense, for our honesty to the life.
Hollywood regency never goes out of style.
Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music [...], some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world?
In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style. The style of Parisian architecture has been proved and refined by at least three centuries of academic dictates and highly developed taste. There are few violations of this taste, and there is exemplary architectural consistency. Paris has defined the aesthetics of a sophisticated urban culture.
When the OutKast sound changed and I started producing my own records, I would mirror what I thought that character doing that music would look like. As the sound got a little wilder, freakier and funkier, so did the clothes. Then when the sound got more sophisticated, the clothes changed again.
We built our fashion around three fundamental concepts: Sicily, tailoring, and tradition. Our dream is to create a style which is timeless, and to create clothes with such a strong personality that whoever sees them can instantly say without a shadow of a doubt: this is a Dolce & Gabbana.
Somehow, stars have a lot of class if they are done right; they never have a shelf life.
The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.
I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics.
I'm a sucker for expertly-executed detail and surprise elements in clothing.
People say I am a classic designer. I don't try to be classic, but I do try to be simple and elegant.
Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.
'Memoirs of a Geisha' is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot.
