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.

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

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

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

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.

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

Buy clothes the size you want to wear.

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.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn’t ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

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

I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

It was a strike against me that I didn’t wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

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?

If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it’s not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?

A lot of the jewelry that I wear are fan gifts because they’re so awesome and they give me great presents.

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.

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

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.

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

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

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

The one thing I couldn’t identify with was the blue cowboy outfit he put on.

Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.

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

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.

I’m big on what’s in good taste.

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

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

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

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

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

Fashion breaks my heart.

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.

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

Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.

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

When I get dressed, it’s like freestyling.

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

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

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.

It is always better to be slightly underdressed.

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 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.

I worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.

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

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

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.

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

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

Fashion is merely an opinion. And I’ve got a lot of opinions.

Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it ‚the new modesty.‘

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 history people dressed much better than we do today.

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

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.

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