There are charms made only for distant admiration.

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?

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.

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

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

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

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

I don’t feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you’ve got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don’t buy too much.

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.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 wear wigs all the time on shows, and every day when I’m in public, at Dollywood. People say, ‚How many wigs do you have?‘ And I say, ‚Well, at least 365 because I wear at least one a day.‘

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

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I’m someone else.

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

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

I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.

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

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

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

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

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

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.

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

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.

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

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 think my style is probably more of a classic look.

I like Tom Ford a lot because it’s so classic and has great quality. I wear a lot of Rag & Bone.

It never mattered to me that people in school didn’t think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it – though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, ‚I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.‘

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

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

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.

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

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.

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.

I like either skinny jeans or the ripped, casual, super-sloppy boyfriend jeans. A lot of ripped jeans. They are so early 2000, but they are so cute, I love them. I love surfer jeans, too!

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

Obviously black matches with everything.

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

I think I would like to go into modelling. Of course, I don’t know how to do it, and wouldn’t be any good at it if I did, so I’m going to employ someone to walk the catwalks on my behalf. It would still be me, of course.

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

It is always better to be slightly underdressed.

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

I see so many guys, really athletic guys, wearing pleats and I just shake my head. Like, Tiger Woods used to wear pleated pants! I’m like, ‚C’mon, Tiger!‘

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

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

I like a colorful sock. I’m a sock man.