Alessandro Michele

I love to give voice to things that are not very visible.

If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.

We live in a world that is full of product. We have too much.

I think if you work with different kinds of codes, attitudes, in the end you have a language. It's like within a person. You are not always the same.

I love to mix everything together. It's really my way to see beauty.

The future is not so interesting for me because the future doesn't exist. I am really focused on the contemporary.

In fashion, people are very focused on the future, but I really love to talk about the present.

Fashion should be genderless; how people perceive the idea of beauty can vary from one to another.

The idea that I'm 45 doesn't mean that I have no creativity. I'm like a student: it's the same - it's not a war!

I'm obsessed with trompe l'oeil - the idea of something that is existing and is not existing.

I love taking prints, embroidery, appliques - precious things that seem to be from another time - and using them to create a contemporary, new story.

You have to be open to dreaming. It's a complicated language, but I'm obsessed with it.

I don't have a problem to say I am a good merchandiser, because I love objects.

Clothes are endless possibilities for meaning because with every change or different association, you are a different person.

I'm not scared of beauty, but if you fall in love with a beautiful man, it's not easy. It's easier to be in love with an ugly man. Beauty has a kind of power.

I've been an avid collector since I was a child.

With a brand like Gucci, you have to give something that belongs to beautiful Italian culture in terms of craftsmanship and materials.

I always lose every single pencil I ever had. So I can draw with everything. With pencil, with pen.

Creativity is not about the fame.

I just try to see what happens when you put your feet on the accelerator.