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

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

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

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

I like to look good, my friend.

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady’s head-dress.

I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

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

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

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

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.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

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.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

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?‘

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

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 started wearing Ugg when I was, like, 13 or 14, in high school, and my mom got me a pair for Christmas one year.

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

I have more suits than days of the year that I get to wear them.

T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

Any colour – so long as it’s black.

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.

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.

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.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

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

I don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

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.

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.

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

I’ve had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year’s worth of rent.

If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.

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

Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

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.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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.

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

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

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

I’m big on what’s in good taste.

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

We based the look on rock ‚n roll right from the beginning.

I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?

We’re introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night’s sleep.

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.

I’m filthy rich!

I said I would never wear my gold again because it would be insensitive and disrespectful to all the people who died and lost everything in Katrina.

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

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.

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.

I tell myself every day I love my Jacuzzi, I love my marble floors, I love my high ceilings.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

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