Alexander Chee Quotes

In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.

Strangely enough, I really think that shoes are a communication tool between people.

Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.

The language of clothing is high symbolism and we all, in moments where we need to know this, realize it.

I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.

I think that clothes and accessories define and describe who we are. I can't see many differences between them; they are indeed a way to introduce ourselves to other people, and they help us transmitting a message to others.

Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.

Who said that clothes make a statement? What an understatement that was. Clothes never shut up.

You're saying something with your appearance whether you mean to or not, so you may as well mean to.

Style is the image of character.

I love clothes so much. I feel like whatever I wear is an insight for other people to get to see who I am, or for me to portray how I'm feeling.

There may be people who try to imitate art when they get dressed and people who just get dressed to cover themselves up, but I guess that both send out messages and communicate their ideas and feelings through their looks.

Even when we say nothing our clothes are talking noisily to everyone who sees us, telling them who we are, where we come from, what we like to do in bed and a dozen other intimate things.

Clothes is just something you put on to cover yourself... fashion is a way to communicate.

I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'

One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.

Accents are very easy for me. With me, it's clothing and makeup and hair and all that stuff that inform how the character moves and feels.

Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it is for women.

I think everybody's got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they want to convey a certain image. You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.

I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.

I used fashion to express myself as much as I could. But at some point, it was not enough.

Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.

Also the clothing, people often ask why I talk about what characters are wearing. And that's really important to me, because you have to have a picture of how people moved in their clothes.

You will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.

I've thought about it, but I don't think I'd ever get a 'Teen Wolf' tattoo, and I don't know why.