Style Revolution Quotes

Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

Fashions are induced epidemics.

I like jeans, but I think in 100 years it's going to be crazy when we look back at the fact that everyone, every day for about 60 years straight, wore stiff blue pants as their default. Why?

I've always worn jewellery but for a time it went out of fashion. Like grungy and punk bands didn't wear jewellery because it was stupid.

Good fashion for me is like rock ‘n’ roll – there’s always a little rebellion in it.

The time where people adapt to clothing is over; this is a new era where clothes adapt to people.

More people saw me than saw Napoleon, Lincoln and Cleopatra. I was better known than Einstein and Picasso. ... I changed the fashion of two continents. The style of the Gay Nineties became the rage ... women were trying to walk and talk like me. Women became more sex-conscious - sex was out in the open and fun.

Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.

I see myself as a revolutionary, as a fashion rebel.

The only reason I'm in fashion is to destroy the word conformity.

I have always been drawn to designing fashions that are rebellious, like black leather jackets on suburban kinds, a corset dress, punk, blue jeans. I love that. Fashion changes all the time, and what is considered extreme or elegant or luxurious (or not luxurious) is changing all the time.

I'll never forget my transition from pleated pants to plain front pants. It was the late '80s. I couldn't get rid of those pleated pants fast enough.

The real trendsetters are the ones who rebel. Those are the ones who everyone in fashion eventually follows.

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

Coco Chanel really wanted to have freedom of a man, and at first the only way she could find that freedom was through the clothes. They freed her movement; she got rid of the corset. This imposed her not as a decoration but as a real personality. She invented a new way of seductions through these clothes.

Music and fashion combined make such a lethal weapon in my opinion.

The world needs some excitement from fashion.

I want to remind people of a different kind of glamour, a different look, and breaking the rules of fashion. I wanna break the rules.

When I started, department stores were either very fashion, or very tailored, so the two never mixed. I mixed it, and they said you're too tailored for fashion and too fashion for tailoring. So I had to move the market. So that's what I did.

Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.

I always try to design fashion that is interesting and innovative, and I like to break traditions and challenge people's expectations.

I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men's formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin!

Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.