Top 50 Roberto Cavalli Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I think God is the most fantastic designer.”

— Roberto Cavalli

2. “I copy the dress of an animal because I love to copy God. I think God is the most fantastic designer.”

— Roberto Cavalli

3. “Every woman inspires me.”

— Roberto Cavalli

4. “Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind.”

— Roberto Cavalli

5. “Today, I’m very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.”

— Roberto Cavalli

6. “My devotion to my job started from a personal defeat: my first girlfriend’s parents rejected me because i wasn’t rich. I decided i would show them what a big mistake they had made.”

— Roberto Cavalli

7. “A beautiful dress can be as exciting as a poem.”

— Roberto Cavalli

8. “Nature is my main source of inspiration – I will never stop taking hints from what I call ‘the greatest artist’”

— Roberto Cavalli

9. “Maybe I think too much.”

— Roberto Cavalli

10. “I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.”

— Roberto Cavalli

11. “I really don’t understand minimalism. It is so polite and boring. If you don’t want anyone to notice you, you should stay home and grow your own vegetables.”

— Roberto Cavalli

12. “Today the world is a big jungle.”

— Roberto Cavalli

13. “With time, fashion has become part of my DNA.”

— Roberto Cavalli

14. “Every girl creates a dream in her mind; everyone needs an idol.”

— Roberto Cavalli

15. “Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.”

— Roberto Cavalli

16. “In my planet, fashion, I’m the only straight man.”

— Roberto Cavalli

17. “I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there and feel like a bird. In this moment I feel free.”

— Roberto Cavalli

18. “I think I was the first to show that a designer could be like a rock star, that people should love your fashion but also put your name together with your fashion.”

— Roberto Cavalli

19. “My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles I went to fashion.”

— Roberto Cavalli

20. “I enjoy seeing people have fun.”

— Roberto Cavalli

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21. “Fashion should be something that in the morning, when you open your window, you say, ‘Oh fantastic, sun!’ Then you take your shower, you say, ‘OK fantastic, which colour I wear today because I feel happy?’ This should be fashion.”

— Roberto Cavalli

22. “You can’t just buy things for the label – it’s ridiculous.”

— Roberto Cavalli

23. “I meet people, I like to ask: which sign are you?”

— Roberto Cavalli

24. “There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don’t understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.”

— Roberto Cavalli

25. “It’s difficult to create fashion, you can’t just learn it, you have to have fashion in your DNA.”

— Roberto Cavalli

26. “Israel is in my heart.”

— Roberto Cavalli

27. “I began to speak well at a very advanced age – 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.”

— Roberto Cavalli

28. “The big fish run the show. I’m a middle fish, but there are small fish that are poisonous.”

— Roberto Cavalli

29. “The industrial direction is sometimes too much. We should think more about fantasy.”

— Roberto Cavalli

30. “In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.”

— Roberto Cavalli

31. “Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself.”

— Roberto Cavalli

32. “Sometimes women are afraid to be sexy and women should know that sometimes a dress can change her life.”

— Roberto Cavalli

33. “If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it’s because they have something, something special.”

— Roberto Cavalli

34. “I want men to be more chic – and Japanese style has that kind of sophisticated elegance.”

— Roberto Cavalli

35. “I love to spend money.”

— Roberto Cavalli

36. “I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it’s one small piece of art.”

— Roberto Cavalli

37. “I know I have to be like people expect, because people love to dream with me, they like to think that I love my boat of 50 metres, that I drink Cristal for breakfast, that I dance until five o’clock in the morning. I am not like that.”

— Roberto Cavalli

38. “It is important to be chic.”

— Roberto Cavalli

39. “Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.”

— Roberto Cavalli

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40. “I feel fashion needs me for many, many years more.”

— Roberto Cavalli

41. “I love women in all their different incarnations. My friends are practically all women. They are much more intelligent than men.”

— Roberto Cavalli

42. “I tried immediately to have a baby because I was so afraid not to have a baby in my life.”

— Roberto Cavalli

43. “I love women’s fashion, but women don’t need me as much as men do. It’s the men who have nothing to wear.”

— Roberto Cavalli

44. “I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.”

— Roberto Cavalli

45. “I’m used to always deciding everything myself. It’s a blessing, but also a terrible defect.”

— Roberto Cavalli

46. “I love a woman, I love to judge how beautiful she is, how beautiful I can make her.”

— Roberto Cavalli

47. “The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.”

— Roberto Cavalli

48. “I love clothes and fashion more than music.”

— Roberto Cavalli

49. “What is too much? There is no such thing!”

— Roberto Cavalli

50. “I love you if you love me.”

— Roberto Cavalli