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

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.

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.

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

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

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

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

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

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

It’s a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

I’ve used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool… but that’s just natural.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

Elegance is refusal.

The French have got taste.

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 buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

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

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.

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.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

I want my wardrobe to be full of good clothes, so that when I’m deciding what to wear, I don’t run out of options. I love shopping!

I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men’s clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

Obviously black matches with everything.

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

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

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

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.

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

You could tell ‚The Handmaid’s Tale‘ from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.

Buy clothes the size you want to wear.

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

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

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.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

I think I have something tonight that’s not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

I love soft-cotton white T-shirts.

I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male – or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you’ll see what I mean.

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

I’m so not macho. It’s crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave.

My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that’s an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.

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

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I’m such a short little thing, I can’t reach my kitchen cabinets.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It’s a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

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

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 a good pair of jeans, but I also like putting on a nice tux. I’d rather go around in a good pair of jeans that you don’t wash every day, because they get more and more comfortable.

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

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.

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.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

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.