Roberto Cavalli

Roberto Cavalli

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Roberto Cavalli, an Italian fashion designer and inventor, is widely remembered for insights that continue to resonate with readers everywhere. Celebrated for exotic prints and for creating the sand-blasted look for jeans, Roberto Cavalli brought that same intensity to the written and spoken word. Discover 19 of Roberto Cavalli's most memorable quotes, ranging across Famous, Women, Success, Morning, and Family. Here is a taste of their wisdom: "I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough."

“Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.”

— Roberto Cavalli

Dreams

All Quotes by Roberto Cavalli

“Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.”

— Roberto Cavalli

Success

“Excess is success.”

— Roberto Cavalli

Success

“Fashion should be something that in the morning, when you open your window, you say, 'Oh fantastic, sun!' Then you take your shower, you say, 'OK fantastic, which colour I wear today because I feel happy?' This should be fashion.”

— Roberto Cavalli

Morning

“The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.”

— Roberto Cavalli

Famous

“My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles from textiles I went to fashion.”

— Roberto Cavalli

Family

“I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.”

— Roberto Cavalli

Beauty

“I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.”

— Roberto Cavalli

Age

“In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.”

— Roberto Cavalli

Famous

“I love women's fashion, but women don't need me as much as men do. It's the men who have nothing to wear.”

— Roberto Cavalli

Women

“There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.”

— Roberto Cavalli

Women

“Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.”

— Roberto Cavalli

Dreams

“I know I have to be like people expect, because people love to dream with me, they like to think that I love my boat of 50 metres, that I drink Cristal for breakfast, that I dance until five o'clock in the morning. I am not like that.”

— Roberto Cavalli

Morning

“Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.”

— Roberto Cavalli

Design

“If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.”

— Roberto Cavalli

Famous