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

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

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

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

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.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

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.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

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?

My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

I would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock n‘ roll, the beat writers.

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.

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

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.‘

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 wear a hat on stage so that people won’t be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don’t wear a hat, there’s no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.

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.

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.

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

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.

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 want my wardrobe to be full of good clothes, so that when I’m deciding what to wear, I don’t run out of options. I love shopping!

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

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

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.

I think tattoos are horrible. It’s like living in a Pucci dress full-time.

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.

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

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

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

The importance of logo into today’s fashion is un! be! Lievable!

My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like ‚Destiny’s Child’s‘, so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line. I was adamant about not putting my name on something that I didn’t love.

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

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

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

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.

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

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 walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.

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.

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

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I’m not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

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