Alessandro Michele

Your memory is not my memory.

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

For me, reworking the past over and over again is a way not to trivialise the garments and not to obsess over hem lengths. What I am interested in, as a matter of fact, is telling a story and, if someone sees fragments of other stories in it, be my guest. I don't have to justify myself. What is urgent for me is what I want to say.

The idea that a man should be wearing something different and more eccentric is obviously the oldest idea on earth.

Some women are forced by men to look a certain way to be accepted by the general public, and I find that terrible.

There should be no boundaries, no hierarchy, no violence. Men and women are equal.

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

The more you are different, the more interesting. The more you are not like me, the more I want to get to know more about you.

Trees and flowers are so important. The idea of blooming is the idea of becoming something different.

It seems only natural to me to present my men's and women's collections together.

All of us, we are not one thing: we're always between two worlds, and the idea of not being sure is very appealing to me.

For me, fashion is something that makes you feel alive, that expresses something of you: if you are sad, if you are happy.