Donatella. She’s as synonymous with her platinum tresses and full-throttle vision of glamour as she is with a certain pithy way with words. The doyenne of next-level Milanese design is famously frank, and never one to shy away from speaking about her own ethos when it comes to style—and everything else. Ahead of Versace’s Spring 2017 show at Milan Fashion Week today, we’re rounding up nine of Donatella’s most quotable quotes. • “My style is not that big. I wear heels, tight pants, and I wear diamonds.” • “What is comfortable fashion? To be comfortable, that can’t be in the vocabulary of fashion. If you want to be comfortable, stay home in your pajamas.” • “For a woman to have credibility, they have to work three times more than a man. I sit on the board of directors, I’m the only woman! And I dress some of the most powerful women in the world. So I think I’m a feminist. I show to women, you can do it.” • “I think glamour all the time. I wake up in the morning and I’m already thinking glamour.” • “When I do the fittings with the new girls and see how they arrive in the show, how they talk, how they move, I don’t want to put on strong makeup. I want them to be themselves. I respect the way they look in real life rather than change them into something else.” • “I never, ever wear flats. Every time I wear them I fall over! The only flats I own are my sneakers, which I only wear when inside the gym and always with black and diamonds.” • “Luxury has no price. I think it is where the market is going, exclusivity, luxury, and opulence.” • “I can, in a way, surrender and say whatever I think, do whatever I want, because my family will understand me.” • “[Fashion is] actually very hard work. I have to have the sensibility to keep the company in good shape because there are so many people working for it, and we need to have the company grow and also be relevant. So I work very hard for all that to happen, and I wish people would know me for that and be satisfied. . . But if certain people think of me like a pop star, then the only thing I could do about this is dye my hair black and cut it short maybe.”  

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