Quotes About Fashion

I am not gay, I just like pearls.

My dad was in a Beatles cover band. My mom wore Candies and belly buttons. The people in our family were very glamorous. They wore pearls like Jackie O.

There's something about a Gucci loafer kicking on a fuzz pedal.

I love clothing, and I love fashion, but I think that there is too much pedantry in fashion, and saying, 'You have to wear all of these things together; you can't button this button.' You know, all of that kind of stuff.

A lot of my peers don't think about collaborating the way I do. My approach is to imagine my world. The Jason Wu woman isn't just floating around in a beautiful dress. I like to know where she's going, what she likes. I'm not just in the fashion business. I'm in the lifestyle business.

I love eyebrows, so brow pencils and brow shadow are really important to me.

For events, I do use make-up, but normally I don't. I might use a bit of eyebrow pencil and a lipstick but nothing else.

The fatter the eyeliner, the easier it is to use. With a pencil, just draw the shape you like and clean up the mistakes with a bit of cleanser.

My style was nostalgic and involved pearls and penny loafers, always with the pennies in them.

I like penny loafers.

I wear Johnston & Murphy, not penny loafers.

Fashion is about dreaming and making other people dream.

I like clothes and fashion. It's a hobby for me and I really enjoy being part of it, so it's nice when people say: 'He can dress quite well.'

People say I am the king of painful shoes.

I sometimes laugh at the fact that people say I have good style.

There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they're in shock.

I've stopped caring how others are going to perceive me if I wear something that they don't like.

I read these articles where people are calling me a fashion icon, which kind of makes me laugh, but if that's the way they perceive it that's all good.

We have this perceived illusion of what the fashion designer does. As an industry, we make it out that this one individual changes the entire face of the earth. I have never said 'me'; it's always 'we.' I am just the big salesman.

It was just really exciting to see dark people in white people's clothing, or what is perceived as white people garb.

Ninety percent of my clothes are women's.

I think glamour is a perception, and I am not against it.

What shaped my perception about my body and myself was finding better clothes - that's what changed my world.

My aim is to change people's perceptions of what a hat can look like in the 21st century.