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.

More Quotes by Donatella Versace

Let's just say beauty inspires me. But I like all beauty - I think it really comes from the inside out.

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.

I think glamour all the time. I wake up in the morning and I'm already thinking glamour.

I like perfume and flowers.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.