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.

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

I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

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.

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

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

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

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

My clothes have always got a very strong dynamic rapport with the body – they are very body conscious, they help you to look glamorous, more hourglass, more woman.

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

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?‘

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

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!‘

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

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.

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.

I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It’s always sexy, and it’s always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

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

Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed!

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

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

Probably my first couple years in the league, I started paying more attention to what I was wearing. Once I got a few bucks in my pocket and I could afford some nice things, and you get to go, ‚OK, let’s try some of these things.‘ And once you try something you like, you probably don’t change it much.

If you’re too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

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.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

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

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

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.

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.

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.

Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive man I’ve ever met.

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

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.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.

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

I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them – they are individual and stylish.

To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.

With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.

Even 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.

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

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 think style is being so comfortable and confident in what you’re wearing. That’s what style is, ‚cause everybody’s got different style.

I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.

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.

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.

Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.

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

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.

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

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

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

I sometimes just don’t like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

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.