Top quotes from Milan Fashion Week
"Fashion today is beautiful but too expensive" says Roberto Cavalli.
MILAN (AFP) - From the frivolous to the profound, here are 10 top quotes from designers, fashionistas and industry players as Milan s fashion week wraps up Monday.
- "It s very futuristic. Nobody does this. It s spectacular!": Yurata, fashion editor from InStyle magazine in Moscow, at the Fendi show after the fashion house deployed drones to film the catwalk.
- "It s about self-satisfaction more than the exhibitionism to be popular at a party or with men": Gucci s Frida Giannini describing her latest collection.
- "I ve always had a fetish for shoes!": Jane Reeve, new chief executive of Italy s national fashion chamber, over a risotto at the chamber s welcome brunch.
- "My biggest inspiration came from Buddha s idea that a lotus is an embryo of the world. I m a story teller": Indian designer Rahul Mishra after winning the international Woolmark Prize.
- "This is kind of our moment": luxury handbag maker Furla s chief executive Eraldo Poletto, referring to the boom in global accessories that saw his turnover grow by seven percent last year.
- "I think everyone would be happier to produce everything in Italy but with these oppressive taxes it s an impossible undertaking": Giorgio Armani backstage, speaking to the Milano Finanza daily.
- "The artisan is creative here. He becomes a designer too": luxury shoe maker Alberto Moretti at the unveiling of his latest collection, inspired by France s last queen, Marie Antoinette.
- "When Madonna calls me to make a stage costume, I get working straight away, thinking about the embroidery et cetera. There are so many things to do!": an ebullient Fausto Puglisi, rising fashion-world star, ahead of his catwalk.
- "Fashion today is beautiful but too expensive. Let s try and take it down a notch and go back to creating": Roberto Cavalli to business daily Il Sole 24 Ore.
- "I m never taking these sunglasses off. Ever": overheard at Marni catwalk from waspish American-accented woman in black fur-trimmed coat and "Wayfarer" Ray-Bans.
