Fashion Quotes

"Whether it's an $11 flip-flop or a $2 key ring or a $2,000 dress, they're all done with integrity. They're all done with a design sense. As long as the creativity exists, then I don't think it's a sellout. A sellout is putting your name on any piece of crap and then expecting people to buy it because it's got your name on it."

"No one ever said 'no' to me about anything. No one ever told me anything was wrong. Never. No one ever said, 'You can't be a fashion designer.' No one ever said, 'You're a boy and you can't take tap-dancing lessons.' No one ever said, 'You're a boy and you can't have long hair.'"

"You can go to Graff and buy a diamond that's flawless. You aren't going to be able to buy the same diamond at Fortunoff, but it's still a diamond you can enjoy. If fashion can allow you to have the Chanel mystique through a lipstick, then why shouldn't art allow you to have that through a sweatshirt that says 'Cremaster' on it?"

"I don't want to sound too silly or pretentious about this, but, you know, I love being in Paris. I love working at Louis Vuitton. I love fashion. That's why I do it. No one's forcing me to do this. And nobody forces anyone to buy it. It's a real love affair."

"Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them."

"It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow."

"You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room."

"I'm a schizophrenic mix of wannabe glamourpuss and absolute slob, and my style is very much magistrate-meets-barmaid."

"But I'll never be one of those women who feel that they always have to wear earrings and aren't properly dressed without them."

"I wish I was one of those cute pregnant girls who wear skinny jeans throughout their pregnancies. But I just gain weight."

"I've always been a tomboy. I've always liked to wear red, black, and white, and mostly pants."

"The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it."

"I like to dress up in a tailored suit from time to time, and there's a tailor I go to in Naples who's fantastic. But if I told anyone his name, I'd have to kill them."

"Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity."

"I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."

"Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles."

"I have always loved fashion because it's a great way to express your mood. And I'm definitely a shoe lover. The right pair of shoes can change the feel of an outfit, and even change how a woman feels about herself. A woman can wear confidence on her feet with a high stiletto, or slip into weekend comfort with a soft ballet flat."

"If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much."

"No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!"

"I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses."