Sara Gay Forden
Maurizio Gucci Monologues
They only thing I need from you, is to stay away from Gucci before you cause anymore damage.
I don't love you. I don't hate you. I just don't want to be with you anymore.
You hide here in the past and you expect me to hide here with you? Not anymore! These are your ghosts. These are your ghosts, not mine. These are your regrets.
I didn't know it was a costume party.
Gucci is like that cake. Once you think there's enough to go around, then you'll have a taste, and then you'll want more - and then you'll want the whole thing for yourself.
Me? I am Gucci by name. I don't have their - Tuscan character. It was diluted by my mother's German blood.
It's all bullshit. We're not royalty. My grandfather Guccio was a bellhop in London. That's where he got the idea for leather goods. By carrying bags around for rich aristocrats.
He'll be fine. I'm sending a draft of your contract next week and we'll go into production on your line soon after.
When you make me sneak around my own family. When you set father and son against each other and me against Paolo. When you second-guess a person like Domenico De Sole - the only person my father trusted. These things have an effect on the environment I operate in. On me! Actions have consequences.
My uncle is in prison and my cousin thinks I'm scum. And you think that's constructive?
Where Ralph Lauren stores, they feel like movie sets and Versace is a rock concert, Gucci stores will feel like the Vatican of fashion.
We are products of our past but we don't have to be prisoners of it. I don't fear change. I embrace it.
Sometimes you have to go down to come back up again.
If you really think it's about money, then you know less about Gucci than I thought.