Alessandro Michele

I think that fashion, for a long time, has been in a prison. Without freedom. I think that without freedom, with rules, it's impossible to create a new story.

The very beginning of European aesthetics started from Florence. Everything here was beauty, money, and creativity, the power of the good money.

The way you dress is an expression of your personality.

If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.

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!

Creativity is not about the fame.

I feel happy when I work. I don't care if tomorrow I will be fired.

My apartment is full of antique pieces, but I put everything together like a modern installation.

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 don't feel the pressure of the market - otherwise, I wouldn't be able to work.

When I started to work at Gucci, I tried literally to destroy everything.

I become mad when I work. It's like a fever that grows; I don't need to choose just one thing.