Roberto Cavalli – 14 Quotes

14 Quotes by Roberto Cavalli

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

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

– Roberto Cavalli

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

– Roberto Cavalli

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

– Roberto Cavalli

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

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

– Roberto Cavalli

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

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

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

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

Excess is success.

– 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

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

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