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.

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

In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

Playing basketball all my life, I’ve collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It’s pretty much all I wear.

I’m big on what’s in good taste.

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

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

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

Fashion is one thing, but style is another.

The French have got taste.

I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.

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.

Obviously black matches with everything.

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

A lot of people have said I’d have probably done better in my career if I hadn’t looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn’t be blamed because you want to look pretty.

I like being comfortable at airports, in flip-flops with no jewelry on.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

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

Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a sense of style, to people who just love putting all that complicated stuff together, brick by brick, on their computers, to people like me who like playing conceptual games and being surprised.

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

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

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.

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

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.

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

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

I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

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.

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

When the NBA adopted their uniform that they had to wear, I thought that was very interesting. And you see the way NBA players dress: It’s very cool.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

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!‘

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

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

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

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.

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

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.

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.

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

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.

Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.

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

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

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.