I’m not sure what I think about current fashion, though. A few years ago, I would have said it’s really, really bad and you hardly ever see anybody looking good. There must be some very good designers in the world.

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.

I don’t like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can’t do it.

I didn’t used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

I want my wardrobe to be full of good clothes, so that when I’m deciding what to wear, I don’t run out of options. I love shopping!

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.

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

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn’t copy my style from anybody.

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

When I get dressed, it’s like freestyling.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

I live in Hollywood, but you can’t make me love Hollywood. I’ll never love Hollywood.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

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.

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

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I’m a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

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.

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

I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, ‚Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it’s definitely happening,‘ but they don’t feel that they can do anything about it; they don’t even think ‚Well let’s stop it!‘

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

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

Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.

Buy clothes the size you want to wear.

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

I sometimes just don’t like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.

Everyone has their style and your style explains a lot about who you are – you feel me? I’ve had style since childhood, so I like to dress how I feel. But maybe I get carried away by some trends.

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.

Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a sense of style, to people who just love putting all that complicated stuff together, brick by brick, on their computers, to people like me who like playing conceptual games and being surprised.

I like sweaters. I have a sweater obsession, I guess.

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

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, ‚You’re finished. The shoe’s finished.‘

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

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.

It’s easy to become very self-critical when you’re an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

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

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

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.

I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

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

I’ve never considered musical equipment very sacred.

My clothes have always got a very strong dynamic rapport with the body – they are very body conscious, they help you to look glamorous, more hourglass, more woman.

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.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

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

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

I’m easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes.

In history people dressed much better than we do today.