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.

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

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

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?

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.

Fashion is one thing, but style is another.

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 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.

Ever notice how irons have a setting for permanent press? I don’t get it.

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

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

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

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.

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

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I go shopping or just look at people living. But then, you know, there will be a few teenagers who are kind of sharp, and they’ll say, ‚Hey, just a minute. You know who I think that is?‘ And they’ll start tailing me. And I don’t mind.

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

I really focus on my jeans and sweaters for them to fit really well. There was a time that wasn’t the case.

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

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

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.

I love soft-cotton white T-shirts.

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.

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

I’ve worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, ‚What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?‘ And, ‚How does creativity apply across the board?‘

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

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.

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

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 urge everyone to be trendsetters for Azza Suleiman. Let’s make it one fashion which everyone will want to follow.

Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

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.

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

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

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

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.

I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.

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

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

With a suit, always wear big British shoes, the ones with large welts. There’s nothing worse than dainty little Italian jobs at the end of the leg line.

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

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.

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.

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

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?‘

Fashion has become so whatever. I don’t think there are any stones left to unturn.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

I like sweaters. I have a sweater obsession, I guess.