Quotes About Fashion

I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, thyroid problem?

I decided to work on things that obsess women because women can't resist things like lace, sequins, animal prints and python.

My aunt was Frances Hodges, who in the Fifties was the editor of 'Seventeen' and later one of the creators of 'Mademoiselle.' She was my Auntie Mame; she loved culture. She was a Quaker, but she became a milliner against all Quaker logic - they feel that fashion and art are vanities - because she loved fashion.

Modeling wasn't necessarily what I was into. It's something that you're genetically qualified to do.

I love seeing women looking great in my clothes. I don't care who they are. I don't quantify people by celebrity.

I wish you didn't have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is very, very important.

I'm the makeover queen. I love to do makeovers on people.

I once said the Queen of England could use some fashion advice.

Boy George is all England needs - another queen who can't dress.

A drag queen is one that usually goes to a ball and that's the only time she gets dressed up. Transvestites live in drag. A transsexual spends most of her life in drag.

One of the things that's really important in 'Queen of the Night' is how people communicate with their clothes.

As a drag queen, you can pick your hair and I've made some horrible choices.

If I could do shoes for anyone, it would be a special project for the Queen of England.

When people think of hats, they think of her majesty the queen.

I wanted a maternity dress, but I couldn't find anything I liked. Everything was abominable. So I made one. Then I made a pullover. 'Elle' put it on the cover. Then WWD elected me the Queen of Knitwear.

My career got off to a very shaky start when I dropped out of school at the age of 18. Despite my lack of academic credentials, I got a job as a fashion assistant at 'Harper's & Queen.'

A queen does not wear clothes off the runways.

To the fashion world, a man in a dress will always be camp. But in the drag world, you have specific genres. So for me, for instance, I'm most categorized as a 'look queen.'

I love the process of dressing up, and people that dress up, and serving looks and drag queens and club freaks and all of that.

Drag, at its core, is about honoring yourself and your own unique way of being a gendered, queer person. Your own unique way of using fashion to express yourself.

The '80s weren't perfect and people made some questionable fashion choices but in terms of music and movies, it was revolutionary and wonderful.

A bright lipstick is a quick way to glam up my look.

Even if you throw your hair up in a quick topknot or ponytail, you can add instant polish by wearing a headband or bejeweled barrette.

I do think that people outside the fashion industry imagine that being a model is what you might call quick, easy money, but it can be very lonely - you have to be quite tough. It's also very physically demanding.