Julie Burchill Quotes

Fashion really is women's liberation in a lot of ways. Look at how many women in this country are depressed about how they look and how they think they have to look! It's really sad. And it's not about money.

A lot of people judge me because I like to, you know, look good, but I grew up in fashion.

People think I like to expose my body. But I don't. It's just because the dance moves require it.

I don't want my daughter to think she has to dress like Beyonce!

You don't have a choice about fashion or aesthetics - you're in it, whether you like it or not.

If it was up to me, I would just wear jeans and t-shirts, even to red carpets, but then no one would photograph me, so that would make me very sad. So you know, I've gotta keep up with the rest of the female population and sometimes try a little harder.

When push comes to shove, no one really cares what you're wearing except you.

A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes.

Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys, they'd just walk around naked at all times.

They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.

I think a lot of young girls go through that period in their life of finding who they are, and at that point, looking good matters the most.

There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.

Anorexia and bulimia seem to be getting much more common in boys, men, and women of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds; they are also becoming more common in racial groups previously thought to be impervious to the problem.

We are being accused that some models are anorexic. But we as fashion designers cannot be blamed, because you know, when I talk to women around the world, rich and poor and young and old and intellectual and not, what they want to be is skinny. You ask them, 'What is your dream?' It's to be skinny. That's all they want.

I have no fears when it comes to my hair or clothes.

A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

With women, the way they look... it's the core of their self-esteem.

It makes me sad that corporations and media and Hollywood conspire to make people feel terrible about their bodies from the second they wake up, so I sort of try to subversively undercut that.

I have a friend who, if she has a bad hair day, it affects her whole mood because it is part of her sexuality, her confidence. I don't have that problem any more.

For a woman, body image is always a palpable thing. Weirdly, for me, the only time I don't care is when I'm in character.

The feathers have been retired to the London Hard Rock Cafe. I don't obsess about it as much. Also, it's strange - the better physical shape I get in, the less I care about what suit I'm covering myself up in. I'm not really out to flaunt it, but I'm just more comfortable in my own skin.

Girls in my school were always prettier.

Nobody in my family ever thought that I'd a be a model.

I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.

I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had a flair for fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn't understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.