Camille Guaty Quotes

Girls who wear certain kind of dresses, who show certain areas of the body, are not going to like my clothes. You can't please everyone.

I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly rebelled against her idea of looking well turned-out. I spent several years with a shaved head in jeans and baggy shirts.

Sometimes you want to dress a certain way... that doesn't always reflect your pedigree.

Don't ask me to cut my ponytail.

People tell you what you have to wear and do, and I've never been a fan of it.

Strive not for singularity in dress; Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth while, But be in mind a little out of style.

We're born naked, and the rest is drag.

I can show up at a Goldman Sachs conference wearing a Judas Priest T-shirt - and I have - while everyone else is wearing the same dress.

I have to wear clothes but I don't like to give an idea of what I am with clothes.

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.'

I never dress to shock.

As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.

I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, 'Is it? Why? Why is it like that?' Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.

My manager wants me to dress like a nun and I want to dress like a teenager.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

People define themselves aesthetically at a very young age.

I didn't figure out the makeup or cute hair or clothes until oh, maybe my junior year of high school.

I was growing up in the New Wave period, but that wasn't allowed in school. I remember moments when they wouldn't let four people dressed in black stand together on the playground.

Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.

I remember in seventh grade we used to wear lipstick to school, and the teachers would get so angry, and they'd steal our lipstick if we had them.

And whenever I'm in a situation where I'm wearing the same as 600 other people and doing the same thing as 600 other people, looking back, I always found ways to make myself different, whether it be having a red lining inside of my jacket, having red shoes, it hasn't changed.

Growing up in Seattle, I was always that kid who didn't subscribe to what everyone else was wearing.

When I was 17, I used to really think about what I wore every day.

I got in trouble in Catholic school for rolling the waist of my skirt down.

And all the zig-zags and lines in my hair? I used to do that myself. I just thought it was cool that you could actually do that with your hair.