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

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

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

My clothes are very popular in Japan.

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

Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.

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

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

Men don’t really like skinny, do they?

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.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I’m someone else.

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

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.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

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

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.

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.

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

It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

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

I’m big on what’s in good taste.

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

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

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

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

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.

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

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.

I started wearing Ugg when I was, like, 13 or 14, in high school, and my mom got me a pair for Christmas one year.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

I think it’s good for a woman to put on a bit of weight when she gets older – it looks better. But a man has to stay balanced.

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

I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?

Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it’s not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don’t want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it’s not unhealthy, so I’m going to rock with it.

I like to look good, my friend.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

Fashion breaks my heart.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

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

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

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

The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.

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

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

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

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

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

The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don’t like it, actually.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

A lot of people have said I’d have probably done better in my career if I hadn’t looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn’t be blamed because you want to look pretty.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.