John Varvatos Quotes

I don't think I dress eccentrically. I'm just not conservative, I guess - I dress according to what like. And I'm not a mannequin, as you can tell.

I'm not too into the trends - I like to look at trends as suggestions, not as rules.

I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.

I wear things that aren't in fashion. I wear colors that aren't in fashion. And as a result of that, I kind of bring it back. I feel like nothing really ever goes out of style. It's just what the media and what people tell people to wear. I think having your own sense of fashion is important.

I think it's good to do your own thing and want to be different, and not look like everyone else.

I'm not a slave to fashion; I'm into exercising my individuality.

There's no need to dress like everyone else. It's much more fun to create your own look.

For me, clothes are about individuality. When I wear things that are different and it works, it makes me feel good.

I don't have a set style, but I try not to dress like everyone else.

When I'm at an event, I like to be an eccentric dresser. I will just keep wearing what I like.

I'm not a trend person. I don't want to look to my right and see somebody in the same thing.

My clothes are an extension of my personality. I'd look awful in ladylike dresses.

I don't have any problems with what these guys wear because they got their own style and their own originality. That's the way it's supposed to be, man.

My fashion philosophy is that if I like it, I wear it. I'm not a snob about which looks are 'this season' and which are 'last season.'

I don't really feel there's rules in my everyday wear. I kind of do whatever the hell I want to do.

I have a friend who only buttons the bottom button of his suit jacket, which you're not supposed to do. 'Supposed to do.' But it's his thing, and it's his personal style, and it's like you've got to honor that. People can do whatever they want.

I think the way you dress should be fun. Wearing stuff that people don't normally wear or wouldn't particularly think is their style, I love that. I think that's fun and I think everybody should do it.

I'll look at superheroes and comics and stuff and wonder, 'Why wouldn't you dress like that if you could?' With fashion, I look at it as a way to express that. I don't really pull any punches on it; otherwise, you get caught up in this nexus of dressing like everyone else.

Some people, like myself, rock colored contacts, crazy hair, and black all year round.

I like to have personality in my way of dressing. I think being normal is a bit boring.

When I got older, I wanted to have shoes that no one else had, so I started to choose different shoes; then it followed to my clothes.

I don't see myself as an icon, because I just wear whatever I want to wear.

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.

In my personal life, I have always been bold, from the clothes I wear to how I talk. For me, boldness does not necessarily mean stripping. I think people have wrong notion about boldness. For me, bold is being different.