Nicolas Ghesquiere Quotes

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

Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.

Fashion is a funny thing to talk about. I think what you wear is definitely an extension of you, but I also think it's totally arbitrary.

Epic were adamant that I should carry on being me. They liked the way I look, my clothes, hats... nothing's changed really.

I look pretty nondescript. I don't go out of my way to... I don't express my personality with my clothes, with my car or my, you know, house. I express with my personality; so as far as what I wear - I don't really care about that.

I can't help who I am. I'm just doing what I feel like I should do in my heart. If I was walking around with Timbs and a hoodie on, people would see that that's not me.

Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.

I don't have advice for people on how to dress. People should dress based on what they find beautiful. My best advice: Keep your clothes clean.

I love being able to express myself through what I wear - and for it to be a way of expressing uniqueness and individuality.

It is important for me to feel like myself on a red carpet - not the way somebody else thinks I should look.

I don't wear a lot of jeans, which I know is a controversial statement. I just don't feel the most like myself in jeans.

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.

I keep my hair curly and natural because I really just wanna show who I am.

Hima is Hima only. I haven't changed.

Everyone has to put clothes on in the morning, and it's interesting to see how much people's personal histories come into that decision.

I'm not going to change my entire wardrobe just because of what people have said.

My style would be whatever I look my best in.

When I get dressed, I don't think about what other people think. I only think, 'Is this me? Is this my truth? Am I able to move through this world with confidence? Am I able to move through this world feeling that I am I?'

If there is one rule for dressing, for fashion, it’s pretty much the same rule as for everything else in life: Don’t go against yourself, don’t go against your own nature. It’s only going to show.

As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet we, O foolish race! must try our very best to ape some one or two of our neighbors, whose ideas fit us no more than their breeches!

An air of fashion, which is but a badge of slavery ... proves that the soul has not a strong individual character.

I dont want to show clothes, I want to show my attitude, my past, present and future. I use memories and future visions and try to place them in todays world.

I wake up in the morning and sometimes I just want to wear a T-shirt and blue jeans and now I have to force myself to do that, because I can't care what people think, you know?

The way that I sing, what I sing about, what I wear, who I am, this is me. I was born this way.

I hate to do what everybody else is doing. Why, only last week, on Fifth Avenue and some cross streets, I noticed that every feminine citizen of these United States wore an artificial posy on her coat or gown. I came home and ripped off every one of the really lovely refrigerator blossoms that were sewn on my own bodices.