My clothes are very popular in Japan.

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

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Any colour – so long as it’s black.

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

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

Regardless of what our national credit rating is, people will always want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, fuel for their cars, and clothes on their backs.

My style offstage is so different from onstage. I love a pair of sexy heels with jeans, a nice jacket, or a little dress.

I wouldn’t wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I’ve come to know her that way, too.

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

I didn’t used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.

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.

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

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

I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

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

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

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

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

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.

You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

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.

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

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

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

I like to look good, my friend.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I’m not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

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.

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.

Don’t just eat McDonald’s, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That’s what fashion is. It’s something that is a bit better.

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

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

My style influences my music and everything around me.

I just dress like… I’m an old black man. Sorry! Like I’m an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it’s still the ’50s.

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

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

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

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.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

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.

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated – Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

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

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

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

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

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

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

When the NBA adopted their uniform that they had to wear, I thought that was very interesting. And you see the way NBA players dress: It’s very cool.

In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan’s writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way.

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don’t think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

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

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

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

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

You’d be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!