Fresh sneakers are important on a man. It’s like a new pair of boxers or a new pair of socks.

For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It’s a piece that men wear every day, and it’s something that I would wear for any occasion, whether it’s on the street or going to an awards ceremony.

My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like ‚Destiny’s Child’s‘, so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line. I was adamant about not putting my name on something that I didn’t love.

A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.

T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.

I love New York. I’m a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

Fashion breaks my heart.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don’t feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.

If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

I see so many guys, really athletic guys, wearing pleats and I just shake my head. Like, Tiger Woods used to wear pleated pants! I’m like, ‚C’mon, Tiger!‘

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.

I wear a hat on stage so that people won’t be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don’t wear a hat, there’s no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it ‚the new modesty.‘

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

I love soft-cotton white T-shirts.

Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed!

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

I urge everyone to be trendsetters for Azza Suleiman. Let’s make it one fashion which everyone will want to follow.

I wouldn’t wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I’ve come to know her that way, too.

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Fashion is one thing, but style is another.

Any colour – so long as it’s black.

Littera scripta manet – ‚The written word will remain‘. That’s true, but it won’t be that much comfort to me.

I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.

The importance of logo into today’s fashion is un! be! Lievable!

I said I would never wear my gold again because it would be insensitive and disrespectful to all the people who died and lost everything in Katrina.

I don’t feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you’ve got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don’t buy too much.

I don’t care if you get up in the morning and don’t wash, don’t put any make-up on, don’t do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady’s head-dress.

I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

When you’re 25 or 30, you know, you can’t wear lime-green eye shadow anymore.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, ‚What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?‘ And, ‚How does creativity apply across the board?‘

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that’s a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that’s the thrill in fashion.

It is always better to be slightly underdressed.

I’m not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that’s not me.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

For some reason, I’m really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.

It was a strike against me that I didn’t wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.