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

Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego – its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.

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

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

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

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

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

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

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

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

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

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.

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.

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

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

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.

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

The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.

People don’t want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

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

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.

If McLaren give me a car, that’s fine, but I don’t tend to buy fancy stuff anyway or super-nice clothes.

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

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?

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

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

The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.

I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them – they are individual and stylish.

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.

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.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

I’m big on what’s in good taste.

Probably my first couple years in the league, I started paying more attention to what I was wearing. Once I got a few bucks in my pocket and I could afford some nice things, and you get to go, ‚OK, let’s try some of these things.‘ And once you try something you like, you probably don’t change it much.

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

Fashion is life-enhancing, and I think it’s a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.

I love a pair of sexy heels with jeans, a nice jacket, or a little dress.

I’m not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that’s not me.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

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

Any colour – so long as it’s black.

It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

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

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

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.

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

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don’t think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There’s TV. There’s a lot of things.

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

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

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

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

Buy clothes the size you want to wear.

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

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

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

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.