I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.
Haruki MurakamiI modelled my looks on the town tramp.
Dolly PartonA fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
George Bernard ShawI don’t feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don’t have to buy it. You do have to consume. You have to live. If you’ve got the money to be able to afford it, then it’s really good to buy something from me, but don’t buy too much.
Vivienne WestwoodWe shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Albert EinsteinI’m easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes.
Dolly PartonI 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.
Vivienne WestwoodOh yes, I love to do shoes. I’m not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.
Karl LagerfeldThe peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.
J. Robert OppenheimerThe French have got taste.
Vivienne WestwoodI can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.
Karl LagerfeldPeople ask me where I got my singing style. I didn’t copy my style from anybody.
Elvis PresleyWhen the NBA adopted their uniform that they had to wear, I thought that was very interesting. And you see the way NBA players dress: It’s very cool.
Tom BradyA Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinIn Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don’t understand.
Vivienne WestwoodGive a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.
Marilyn MonroeI think tattoos are horrible. It’s like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
Karl LagerfeldEven 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.
Matthew McConaugheyWhen an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaBritishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don’t care attitude about clothes. You don’t care, you just do it and it looks great.
Vivienne WestwoodWhen I get dressed, it’s like freestyling.
Bad BunnyFashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.
Lady GagaI have heard of Texas pioneers living without bread or anything made from the cereals for months without suffering, using the breast-meat of wild turkeys for bread. Of this kind, they had plenty in the good old days when life, though considered less safe, was fussed over the less.
John MuirBravery never goes out of fashion.
William Makepeace ThackerayFor me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.
The WeekndFashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
Vivienne WestwoodWe shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Winston ChurchillIf you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Dalai LamaIt is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
Stephen HawkingLet us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
Mark TwainClothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost.
Billie EilishI like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day’s schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.
Matthew McConaugheyHappiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.
Paulo CoelhoI love soft-cotton white T-shirts.
Kevin HartFashion fades, only style remains the same.
Coco ChanelIt has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.
Jane GoodallI 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.
Mr. TDon’t just eat McDonald’s, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That’s what fashion is. It’s something that is a bit better.
Vivienne WestwoodAfter a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.
Elvis PresleyIn all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.
John MuirThere was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.
Karl LagerfeldIf I hadn’t been a woman, I’d be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I’d be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I’d be like Ru Paul.
Dolly PartonFashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
Coco ChanelIf 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.
Billie EilishThere have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!
Coco ChanelI wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.
Mahatma GandhiI 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.
Charlie ChaplinThe best fashion advice I’d say would be just to do what makes you comfortable and what makes you feel cute, and that’s how you’re gonna look your best ‚cause when you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.
Ariana GrandeI always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That’s what I always try to do.
Michelle ObamaI saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.
Karl LagerfeldLife is warfare.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI don’t care how many beauty treatments you have, I don’t care which bag you’re carrying – you have to have a dress.
Vivienne WestwoodI have too many clothes, I have too many options.
RihannaDressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.
Katharine HepburnThe fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
William ShakespeareLiverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.
Vivienne WestwoodThe body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
Marilyn MonroeIn this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
Noam ChomskyThe 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.
John Ruskin