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

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

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

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

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’m a really artistic person, and so, with the live stuff, there’s a lot that I think is really cool. Beyonce and Rihanna have all these dancers. So with the live costumes and video costumes, I’d really like to have my vision. The way that I want people to dress is very specific. I love fashion.

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 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 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 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.

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

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.

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

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 always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That’s what I always try to do.

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

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

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

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

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

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.

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

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!‘

When you’re 25 or 30, you know, you can’t wear lime-green eye shadow anymore.

Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.

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

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

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that’s a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that’s the thrill in fashion.

I didn’t used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

In this world, emotion has become suspect – the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.

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.

I wouldn’t wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don’t think it’s necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.

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

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

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!‘

My style has always been my own, just like my flow and style.

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.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Any colour – so long as it’s black.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I don’t like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can’t do it.

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 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.

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 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.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.

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

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

I’m easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes.

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

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

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

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