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

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

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

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

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

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

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

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

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

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

I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

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

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

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

I’m not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

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!‘

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I like to look good, my friend.

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?

Fashion is one thing, but style is another.

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don’t care attitude about clothes. You don’t care, you just do it and it looks great.

I’m big on what’s in good taste.

For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It’s a piece that men wear every day, and it’s something that I would wear for any occasion, whether it’s on the street or going to an awards ceremony.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Fresh sneakers are important on a man. It’s like a new pair of boxers or a new pair of socks.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.

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

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

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?‘

I don’t use blue. I don’t like it. It bugs me out. I hate it.