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

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

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

A lot of the reason my look is the way it is, is because it’s really easy to put on a sundress every night if I have to perform – or just wear jeans every day and a flannel or something.

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.

Everyone wants to know and hopes I retire so they can get the jobs. But my contracts with Fendi and Chanel are lifelong.

I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it’s very hard for me to say no, even when I need to.

I 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.

If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it’s not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?

I think I would like to go into modelling. Of course, I don’t know how to do it, and wouldn’t be any good at it if I did, so I’m going to employ someone to walk the catwalks on my behalf. It would still be me, of course.

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It’s totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

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

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

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.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

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 would say that jazz is my own language.

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

I like a colorful sock. I’m a sock man.

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

I love a pair of sexy heels with jeans, a nice jacket, or a little dress.

I love wearing whatever is comfortable, and that could be something which was in trend years ago. So, I don’t follow fashion.

Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

I just dress like… I’m an old black man. Sorry! Like I’m an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it’s still the ’50s.

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

Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

I’m a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.

I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you’re a Christian you’ve got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It’s no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that’s going to go, ‚Yeah, give me some of that?‘

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

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.

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.

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.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

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.

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

My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

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

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

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

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

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.

I always loved advertising. If I hadn’t been in fashion, I’d have been in advertising.

There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.

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.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

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

A lot of the jewelry that I wear are fan gifts because they’re so awesome and they give me great presents.

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

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

Obviously black matches with everything.

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

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!