Body Adornment Quotes

I've treated the waistcoat as if it were a corset, so that it becomes the first layer in the process of putting clothes on the body. There is constant motion between layering and revealing.

I suppose everything I do has sexual undertones, but I don't set out to make everything about sex. My clothes are more about sensuality. What I do is dress and beautify the body. My feeling is, if you have something beautiful, then show it.

The adornment of the body is a human need.

Clothes are unique sculptures, dependent on a supporting human form and created to move.

My fascination has been the space between cloth and the body, and using a two-dimensional element to clothe a three-dimensional form.

She was clean": no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, after watching three generations of flaccid tattoos droop like moth-eaten upholstery over poorly stuffed biceps and saggy asses?

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

Body adornments show that we're aware of our bodies and expect others to be aware as well.

I don't feel like a fashion person. I don't even have a little earring somewhere.

I guess the one thing that people don't know about me is, I had my belly button pierced but not anymore.

I pierced one nipple. Not both. Just one. She has it in the books and I wanted to get as many of the piercings as I could, and I spent so much time on this film naked, and I just had to be really comfortable with that right away . . . I'm gonna keep it for now. I don't want to have to repierce that should we do the other two films.

May I mention earrings and rings placed in other parts of the body. These are not manly. They are not attractive. You young men look better without them, and I believe you will feel better without them. As for the young women, you do not need to drape rings up and down your ears. One modest pair of earrings is sufficient.

A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod.

I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.

The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.

Indigenous people all over the world take quite a lot of trouble with their hair and their clothes.

I feel like alternative piercings in the ear is this untapped way to festoon yourself. Not many people understand this, but it hurts so good. It's like getting dental work done. It hurts in the right way.

Used to be that my whole body was my canvas-hot cuts licking my ribs, ladder rungs climbing my arms, thick milkweed stalks shooting up my thighs.

I feel naked without earrings. I'll pass out twice. It feels like I'm missing a body part.

The goal is to have a belt around my waist.

Every culture has beauty and decorations of body. This is not of itself superficial, this is very human. Decorating when it becomes out of balance, when it becomes about the materialism, about how many shoes, how many handbags, how expensive they are, and the status, then it's no longer just about an expression or looking beautiful, that's more about 'I HAVE MONEY, I AM RICH'. It felt out of balance.