Monday, November 14, 2011

I need a gianni versace quote translated into italian please?

This quote by gianni versace "You dress elegant women. You dress sophisticated women. I dress sluts", can an italian speaker translate that into italian for me, please?





thank you|||"Lei veste donne eleganti. Lei veste donne sofisticate. Io vesto troie."





ps. If you're talking to more than one person you have to use "Voi vestite", not "Lei veste". And if it is really informal, like talking to a friend you can use "Tu vesti" ... but I guess you don't!





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Sorry Pinguino, in this case you can't use "tu" as "someone".


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And who sais that Giorgio Armani and Gianni Versace say "tu" to each other?


And even if they would I wrote in the text under my sentence how to say it.|||Fragolina is correct, but perhaps, in a talk like this one the informal version is better "Tu vesti donne eleganti. Tu vesti donne sofisticate. Io vesto donnacce/troie"





In Italian "tu" used this way is like saying "one, someone" in English, it's a sort of "indefinite subject": "somebody dress elegant women" etc.





"Sluts" is more correctly translated as "troie", since both act "the same way" but a "puttane" do it for money.


"Donnacce" is a mild term with the same meaning.





EDIT: Fragolina, I really don't understand why, unless because of the original context of the sentence itself say this.


For instance if Versace was talking to a journalist talking about what other stylist do, that would be a natural conversational way to say "that person", "that other person".





Edit 2: I found out the original sentence, in its context:





"a conversation with Gianni Versace, in which the late designer allegedly told him: "You know something Giorgio, you dress elegant women, sophisticated women. I dress sluts."


http://www.freewebs.com/manchesteroutrig鈥?/a>





So, Versace was talking to Armani, and so "you" have to be translated "tu"...|||fragolina's absolutely right :)|||Voi vestite donne eleganti. Voi vestite donne sofisticate. I vesto puttane

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