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"I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's worth I did it."
"I really want some meaning. It used to be easy to toss it off. Now it's harder and harder. You have to navigate just to find something that has nourishment. It's the absence of nourishment. What do you do in place of nourishment? It's usually junk. Either it's junk food or junk clothes or junk ideas."
"True elegance consists not in having a closet bursting with clothes, but rather in having a few well-chosen numbers in which one feels totally at ease."
"Fashions fade, style is eternal."
"Why is Dave Chappelle going to Africa? Why does Mariah Carey make a hundred-million dollar deal and take her clothes off on TRL? A weak person can not get here and talk to you. Ain't no weak people talking to you. So what is happening in Hollywood? Nobody knows! The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive. I don't understand this person, so they're crazy. That's bullshit. These people are not crazy, they're strong people. Maybe the environment is a little sick."
"My thing is related to who I am as a person. The clothes are an extension of me. The music is an extension of me. All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I'm feeling at the time, whatever direction I'm heading in. And hopefully, everyone follows."
"I keep my eyes open. I pay attention to how different types of people express their personal style, how they put their clothes together."
"Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers."
"I idolized Superman when I was younger. I thought he and I had a lot in common. He was always going into phonebooths and taking off all his clothes."
"When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken if one wishes to be able to take delicate measurements. The various objects used in a chemical laboratory and those used in a chemical laboratory, and those which serve for experiments in physics, become radioactive in a short time and act upon photographic plates through black paper. Dust, the air of the room, and one's clothes all become radioactive."
"Ever since I was little I really loved boyish clothes - I had a real obsession with strict clothes, like uniforms. They really got me going."
"I like my clothes tight enough to show I'm a woman, but loose enough to show I'm a lady."
"As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes."
"She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners."
"I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear."
"One should always dress like a marble column."
"Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies."
"...Shorty's laugh was cold-blooded as he spoke so foul, Only twelve tryin to tell me that he liked my style. Then I rose, wiping the blunt's ash from my clothes, Then froze, only to blow the herb smoke through my nose."
"Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts."
"The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor."
