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

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

Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.

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.

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

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

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

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

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.

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.

I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.

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

Bravery never goes out of 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.

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

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 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.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, ‚What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?‘ And, ‚How does creativity apply across the board?‘

The fashion I’ve acquired over the years is so sacred to me – from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I’ve collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood.

I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop, and so I’ve always had people buying them. I could always sell a few, even if I couldn’t sell a lot, and somehow my business grew because people happened to like it. I’m in a fortunate position.

Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana… plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff.

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

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

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.

Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn’t ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

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’m big on what’s in good taste.

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

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

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

If you wear clothes that don’t suit you, you’re a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.

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.

I’m like 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

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

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.

Obviously black matches with everything.

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.

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.

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

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

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

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

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

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

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.‘

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

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

If I’m in a bad mood, or if I’m uncomfortable, it’s probably what I’m wearing that’s making me feel that way.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

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

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

Any colour – so long as it’s black.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.