I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

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.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

I cap myself when I shop; I don’t like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it’s scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.

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.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

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.

The stylish kids on the street, they’re the ones that set the trends. The designers see what they’re doing and go and design their line and sell it back to the same kids, and it’s like, why not go directly to the source?

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

I think my style is probably more of a classic look.

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

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.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

I still derive immense pleasure from remembering how many hod-carrying brickies were encouraged to put on lurex tights and mince up and down the high street, having been assured by know-it-alls like me that a smidgen of blusher really attracted the birds.

In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.

There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!

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 wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.

If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

In this world, emotion has become suspect – the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.

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

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

I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

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

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.

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

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

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

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

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

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

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

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

The 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.

My style influences my music and everything around me.

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.

The story with anorexic girls – nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.

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

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

Britishness 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.

I 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.

If you wear clothes that don’t suit you, you’re a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.

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.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

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

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

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

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

My momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.

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

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

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

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 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.

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

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

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!

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.