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.

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

If 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.

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

To ‚choose‘ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.

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

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 think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one’s best physical features.

I see so many guys, really athletic guys, wearing pleats and I just shake my head. Like, Tiger Woods used to wear pleated pants! I’m like, ‚C’mon, Tiger!‘

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.

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

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

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

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

Fashion has become so whatever. I don’t think there are any stones left to unturn.

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

I wouldn’t wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don’t think it’s necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.

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

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

My performance outfits are very Marie Antoinette, sparkly corsets… and full skirts. And then we do another look that’s ’50s-inspired. Poufy skirts, big bows. Very fun, girlie and young, but otherwise, when I’m not in costume, I dress really normal.

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

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.

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

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

I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day.

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

I like Tom Ford a lot because it’s so classic and has great quality. I wear a lot of Rag & Bone.

The 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.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

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.

You cross me, I’m going to hurt you. But I’m really very gentle.

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

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

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.

In 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.

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

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

More than anything, I like a jacket. You can do anything with a great jacket, the bigger the better. You can have any silhouette underneath. It gives you an attitude. It makes a gown look cool.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

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.

Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

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

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

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

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

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

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.

Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don’t feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

I like being comfortable at airports, in flip-flops with no jewelry on.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

I like the sound a typewriter makes.

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it’s popular, it’s not culture.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

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