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" You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That's dangerous. "

Donatella Versace

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" I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the first pattern, and then she had people working for her. So I grew up in an atelier, watching people all around me sewing. I was fascinated. "

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" The suit does not represent the businessman anymore. Nor does the loud shirt represent the rock star. The same man can now wear both. "

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" You couldn't define the '80s when the '80s were happening. We kept changing. We had shoulder pads, then we didn't. It was revealing, and then it was decoration. It was a lot of things at once. It was defined when it was over. "

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" I wake up at about the same time every day. I sleep well and wake without an alarm clock. "

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" It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it. "

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" I always wear high heels - I simply feel naked without them. "

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" Showing your femininity should help your career and not go against your career. Dressing like a man, using the suit to look powerful - that was the '80s, and that didn't help women. "

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" Plus-sized women shouldn't think of themselves as a size. They should think of themselves as women with rich goals in life. Size doesn't mean, really, anything. You can carry your size with pride and dress in a way that you like. "

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" Hollywood is a very inspiring place. "

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" It's no good being too easily swayed by people's opinions. You have to believe in yourself. "

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" To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin. "

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" My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life. "

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" I think there was a time when I was too strict and controlling. I think I asphyxiated my children. "

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" I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree. "

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" When I work, I wear pants usually because I want to be comfortable. I wear dark colors, especially in winter, because I don't want to concentrate on myself but on what I'm working on. Because I really, really love clothes, I can start to think too much about myself. It's distracting. "

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" I was a fashion addict by the time I was 11 years old. I'd wear a miniskirt and patent-leather boots. "

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" I'm a designer, and I work very hard at that. People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it's frivolous or superficial, but it's not that way at all. It's actually very hard work. "

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