Why do people think that if you don’t dress up, others will appreciate your beauty more – that style will somehow emanate from you? It’s rubbish. If you dress up it helps your personality to emerge – if you choose well.
I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.
Fashion is life-enhancing and I think it’s a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.
Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people.
I disagree with everything I used to say.
There’s this idea that somehow you’ve got to keep changing things, and as often as possible. Maybe if people just decided not to buy anything for a while, they’d get a chance to think about what they wanted; what they really liked.
Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody’s buying far too many clothes.
I can’t think without my glasses.
I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.
The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.
We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.
It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.
Feminists wish women to seem like men. They’re not men.
I do have reasons for what I do. I am a very political person, and I really think if you put these clothes on, you will look like a force to be reckoned with.
My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.
I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.
There’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.
The best fashion accessory is a book.
If you dress up, it helps your personality to emerge – if you choose well.
It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.