Thom Browne Quotes

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled.

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

You ready? I have gold teeth, I have braids, I'm wearing Rick Owens moon boots, I have rips in my denim, a biker vest, I love artsy girls, my favourite artists are Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon. I'm obsessed with being different.

I don't think I do look like an A-Lister. I'm more interested in being comfortable in my own skin than trying to be somebody I'm not. Gimme jeans, an old T-shirt, cowboy boots and a baseball cap any day.

To me, the most important thing is to wear something that I love and feel comfortable in, and Christmas is a great opportunity to get one of my old favourites out.

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

Personal style? I don't really believe in that. Whatever is comfortable.

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

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 live in a homogenized world, where it's hard to get excited when everything is slick and professional. The interesting things are the dull things.

I don't mind not being cool; I wear a cardigan.

I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.

I wanted to go on the red carpet with a baseball cap, t-shirt, and jeans. And I still do. Because that's really who I am.

Why wear pants when you can wear a muumuu?

I still appreciate individuality. Style is much more interesting than fashion, really.

Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum.

If I'm just in dungarees, I don't think I would intimidate anyone.

I think my differences were, and my differences still are, that I don't really approach fashion in a fashiony way.

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.

Not every man can wear jeans.

I ain't trying to keep up with the trends - the hats, the hair colours, the dress codes.

Fashion and style are a language - they helps us communicate with each other in a creative way. Style is one of the most important methods of self-expression.

For me, the most important thing that I am meticulous about when it comes to fashion is fit. I want something that fits perfectly for my body type and fits perfectly for who I am as a person from the inside out.

My nighttime look is exactly like my daytime look - like I'm going to a super fancy funeral. I guess it would be considered extreme to most people, but I like it that way. The idea of conventional beauty isn't attractive to me... that's why, when I was growing up, I felt kind of torn about makeup.

Fashion, for me, is comfort. It is the most important thing for me.