Fashion Quotes

I brought color to bridal. There was one whole season of blush. If you think about the bareness, the illusion (fabric), the corsets that I did in bridal, they were trends in ready-to-wear, too.

The truth of the matter is we have become more interested in designer jeans and break dancing than we are in obligations and responsibilities.

I look at modeling as something I’m doing for black people in general.

There’s really nobody who taught me how to dress.

The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.

Sometimes I feel like what’s hard for fashion designers to do is take looks from off the runway and actually put it into existence, into reality. That’s really the hard part.

Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.

Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.

Dressing effectively is a kind of excellent manners.

I was struggling to find a way to make evening clothes more deconstructed. I like to think that I translated the Latin concept in a more modern way. I don’t think that I was that literal.