Clothes allow you to see yourself in a different light. They can transform you instantly and have a very real, visceral impact. Clothes become symbolic of who we are.
I learned never to say, 'That's too tight.' If a woman puts it on and feels good about herself, then it's for her.
Men make clothes for the women they'd like to be with or in most cases the women they'd like to be.
If you dress up, it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well.
When I wear Chanel, I feel like I'm not just wearing clothes: I'm wearing Chanel.
There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
I have always had a relationship with clothes.
I try to focus less on the actual items and more on the way they make me feel. I like color around my face because it does something to me emotionally. I don't like to wear black because it brings me down.
Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
Some guys are afraid of "fashion" even those this isn't really fashion. It's more "style". A lot of guys don't want to look like they care too much. The idea of standing in a fiting room and trying things on and saying, "How does this look?" I think maybe that experience is a little bit intimidating.
When you have new jeans, you don't like the ones you just wore. It's crazy, but that's fashion.
Fashion is not an investment. If you wear a dress and don't get many compliments, you won't wear it again. It's not like buying bonds.
The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time.
I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.
You can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it.
Becoming a fashion designer is agreeing with the fact that what you experience or what you see as free is also connected to a system. Does that mean giving up your freedom? I still don't know the answer. There's a very different kind of psychology going on in the fashion scene than in art.
I'm not thin! I just wear clothes that make me look thin.
I think style is very different from fashion. Fashion was what I went after when I was feeling incredibly insecure and monstrous on the inside.
How a hat makes you feel is what a hat is all about.
What someone wears is an expression of oneself. When you're just comfortable with what you're wearing, you don't have new thoughts. I want people to feel something and think about who they are.
Clothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost.
People want to look taller and thinner. No one says, 'Ooh! Let me buy that dress because it makes me feel matronly!'
I find that even the simplest of dresses, if it has the correct seaming and the correct fabric, whatever shape or size you are, it can change the way you hold yourself.
What Mona May taught me is that the most important thing about fashion is that you feel good in it.
I love dressing up - it makes me feel good. I think most people get that feeling when they put on a well-tailored suit. It like, boosts your IQ, your confidence, everything. And I think that that needs to come back into the norm more.
