In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

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

Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.

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

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

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

Fashion is life-enhancing, and I think it’s a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.

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

Clothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, ‚God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!‘

My clothes are very popular in Japan.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

Personally, I don’t wear fur.

I’m not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

The fashion I’ve acquired over the years is so sacred to me – from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I’ve collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood.

If I’m in a bad mood, or if I’m uncomfortable, it’s probably what I’m wearing that’s making me feel that way.

I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop, and so I’ve always had people buying them. I could always sell a few, even if I couldn’t sell a lot, and somehow my business grew because people happened to like it. I’m in a fortunate position.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

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?‘

My jewelry’s all fake – from Claire’s. Or I get it from my mom’s boutique in Barbados.

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.

I love soft-cotton white T-shirts.

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.

Fashion is merely an opinion. And I’ve got a lot of opinions.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

I’m like 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

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.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

I think my style is probably more of a classic look.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

We based the look on rock ‚n roll right from the beginning.

I like either skinny jeans or the ripped, casual, super-sloppy boyfriend jeans. A lot of ripped jeans. They are so early 2000, but they are so cute, I love them. I love surfer jeans, too!

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.

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

I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

I don’t care how many beauty treatments you have, I don’t care which bag you’re carrying – you have to have a dress.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

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

When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla – a rebel.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

I think tattoos are horrible. It’s like living in a Pucci dress full-time.

Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn’t ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

I always wear the kind of stuff that makes you overheat and die.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets. I didn’t want anybody’s name on my backside. I personally don’t like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone’s likeness all over it.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

I love ripped jeans! They are flattering. I’m very petite, so I think they make my butt look lovely.

I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

The sexiest thing that a woman can do, wear, and say all fall under one word to me: subtlety. To be subtle in the things that she does and the things she says and the things she wears – I appreciate the details.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

I worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.