Tadao Ando Quotes

I think fashion is the best value way, the most affordable way in the 21st century, that men and women can express their personality.

I love the characters you can build upon when you wear different things. You know, sometimes, I'll want to be girly and wear tulle on a Tuesday, and sometimes I wanna be like Kim Kardashian and wear black leather head-to-toe.

Designers have a reputation for setting the tone for what people - and especially women - are supposed to wear. How long their skirts should be, things like that. I have a different philosophy: put something out there with humour; let people see that and come around to it on their own.

I like dressing how I like to dress, and I look like a little art statement.

I think women are usually a little bit nervous about wearing white denim.

Being able to choose the skin I live in was the draw of fashion.

I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.

You need to have one element about your outfit that is imperfect, that says you live in it and you're not letting it control you. I think men and women both need a softness about them with formal wear.

We women are so judged by the way we dress, and men are not. So style is part of developing your own brand.

I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.

I think that, like any art, fashion is about expression. It allows you to express yourself and your identity through what you choose to wear.

There is nothing wrong with fashion - it should be a beautiful expression of who we are.

Fashion is a way you can express yourself, so it's good stuff, you know?

The way you dress is really the way you feel, the way you live, what you read, your choices. That's what I want to put into Gucci.

Fashion can often be dictated. It's what people think we should do or wear. Style is totally personal.

Moreover, there is nothing wrong in wearing a bikini or other skimpy attires, as many of my predecessors have set a trend in it.

I've never seen a world where only men were responsible for the violence, and the women were innocent. They go together. Men and women are a violent mixture.

Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.

The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women don't really dress; they are too conservative, as it's always a question of money. In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.

When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.

That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.

I think men and women are the same. Even as parents, I think we're the same. We're just conditioned to think that we're different. Having said that, it's true that motherhood is a particularly vulnerable area. It's an open wound, really. A woman is exposed to being turned into a different kind of person by the experience of motherhood.

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.