The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.
The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it.
To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.
To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that it has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.
Musicians of any era - whether it be The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Rage Against the Machine, or, of course, Madonna - will inspire fashion. And we, in turn, will inspire them.
If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream.
Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors.
Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
The thing about fashion - it's like ducks going quack, quack quack. It's being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it.
This is why fashion is such a magical part of our lives, for it inspires our decisions without dictating them; it sets the theme but not the limits of our aesthetic.
I was a feminist in the Sixties, and can you imagine? The worst thing I could have done was to be in fashion. It was the most uncomfortable position.
It's fashionable in some circles to be pessimistic about America, about conservative solutions, about the Republican Party. I utterly reject that pessimism.
Fans don't lie. They just tell you what they really think, and they see details that even people in fashion don't.
I think New York is the center of fashion, even though L.A. has a lot of heritage and the glamour of Hollywood.
I sing about UFOs and extraterrestrials, and so I designed a UFO fashion. It includes science-fiction bikinis and Bermuda Triangle shorts.
I think that fashion is industrial, whereas style is ideological. So they're not necessarily connected.
Who needs to graduate from Central Saint Martins in London or New York's Fashion Institute of Technology when a homemade outfit can go viral on YouTube with millions of hits?
The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.
People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.
We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and can treat the defenseless in a destructive fashion.
