When I play discos in Belfast or freshers’ week in Oxford, there are 1,800 kids dressed as me. It’s odd, it’s funny, and it pays really well.
There’s nothing wrong in sporting a bikini. If the director wants to shoot you in a pool, you cannot be wearing denims or a saree – you need to be dressed accordingly to the situation.
If you perceive someone to be stylish then even if they are shabbily dressed you would consider that as a new style statement.
I’ve dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am asked which star is my personal favorite, I answer, ‘Grace Kelly.’ She is a charming lady, a most gifted actress and, to me, a valued friend.
I never dressed like a teddy boy, and I don’t like shaving but you’ve got to do it.
When I got started, I was a sideshow. At my first Consumer Electronics Show, in 1977 in Chicago, people came from all over the floor to see the ‘lady programmer.’ They had me dressed in a turquoise lab coat with my name embroidered on the pocket.
I get told all the time that I’m a fashion icon now, but I don’t really know what that means. I just get dressed.
I grew up wearing a uniform to school, and now I have my stylist come to my apartment and create outfits for me to wear. Otherwise, I’d never get dressed.
You will not see me dressed in plain, modest outfits.
When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you’re an open book, there’s no allure.
I’m an American designer. It’s important to riff on that. I remember, when my mom and I first came to the States, she was so shocked that everyone was so dressed down in sandals and shorts. It’s not quite like that in Asia. To give that a superluxurious makeover? For me to make street wear? It’s sort of chic to do it.
To me, the Seventies were very inspirational and very influential… With my whole persona as Snoop Dogg, as a person, as a rapper. I just love the Seventies style, the way all the players dressed nice, you know, kept their hair looking good, drove sharp cars and they talked real slick.
History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right – how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.
If I wasn’t even famous or had any success, I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on, and put on a cool outfit. That’s always been who I’ve been my whole life, so that’s never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween, too.
I’d rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It’s the process I like – the same with getting dressed. If I’ve got someplace to be, I’ll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.
Part of what you hear when somebody says something awful to you is like, ‘They’re right, I look ridiculous, why am I dressed this way, I should go home and change.’ For me that voice is always in my head, right around the corner.
You don’t find women with great confidence dressed as if they don’t care.
As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bit crazily in school and dyed my hair every colour under the sun.
As a child, we would all go to a tiny village near Burgos, and we’d have typical Spanish parties in the summer. There would be a band and grandparents dancing all night dressed up as American Indians and things like that.
I don’t get dressed up every day. I’m very busy. I get really annoyed when people talk about me as a ‘fashionista.’ I get dressed up when I have to go out. Most of the time, I’m running around in jeans.
Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it’s a man dressed as one.
I get very, very jealous if I see people who are dressed better than me.
I’ve always dressed very loudly.
Explaining to my children, especially my daughter, that I will be dressed as a woman, and will be playing a eunuch was a tough task.
For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally.
I just try to laugh at the little things. Like, I’m always amazed by how long it takes two kids to get dressed and out the door. Every morning I say, ‘Come on! Let’s go! Five minutes!’ And they’re still in their underwear. Or they say they’re ready, but they’re not wearing shoes.
I’m not dressed up all the time.
Pride was a date night – the cool thing to do at the time – so people were dressed to the nines, and they got quite an experience, visually and otherwise. It was Cirque du Soleil meets the Super Bowl meets WrestleMania meets your favorite rock n’ roll concert.
People say, ‘Dress for the job you want,’ and since I wanted a job that guys had, I dressed like a guy.
I’m a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple – I have way too many in my closet! It’s warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!
If you’re out after 6 o’clock, have a jacket on, because you might go somewhere. People say, ‘Oh, I ain’t dressed for it.’ But if you have a jacket on, you can go anywhere.
I never said, ‘no, I’m not going to do that.’ Two things stand out that I really didn’t care for, there was the one where they dressed me as a cow. Obviously, I didn’t care for it, but I knew it was for ‘hahas’ for fun stuff. And then, when they put me in a diaper as the New Year’s baby, I was like, ‘ugh, here we go.’
I did one show in Chennai. There was this little kid, dressed up as I dressed in ‘Blue Eyes.’ That’s fame for me.
Summer boarders often left clothes behind, and of what use were they to the landladies, for no rag-and-bone man ever called at their houses. The truth of the matter was that in less than a week I was well dressed from head to foot, all of these things being voluntary offerings, when in quest of eatables.
For a long time, I dressed like an idiot. In college, I had a fully shaved head with just two horns. Like, a coxcomb of hair that I would sculpt into two horns. I looked like a crazy person.
Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono. I mean it’s ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.
I’ve been inspired by Coco Chanel. She broke all the rules of her time when she was designing. She pretty much revolutionized the way that women dressed at the time, and in doing that, she modernized the way they looked because they could move more freely in their clothes.
It’s barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.
With Moloko, we tried to be the opposite of what was out there at the time. I like to be different. In the mid-Nineties, music was quite dour and serious, and everything was dressed down. So we went the other way. Our first record was about not wanting to do four-to-the-floor dance music.
I went through a phase where I dressed a bit provocatively when I was a teenager and I don’t think my mum was too thrilled. But my dad held the line of, ‘Well she will grow out of it’ and I did.
People with a lot of money don’t dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive. Those are the people who are always more interestingly dressed, I think. Everything I do, I do with gut instinct. If I think too much, it won’t come out right.
I’m not a big lingerie girl. I see it, and I love it, and I appreciate it, and sometimes I even buy it, and then it never gets worn. It just seems like kind of a wasted middle step. Either you’re dressed or you’re not. What is this in-between stuff?
I don’t normally like getting dressed up, but when I go to events, I like to look put together. I’ve got to say, getting in a nice suit feels good.
The pickpocket is usually very well dressed and of prepossessing appearance.
When I was growing up, everyone dressed the same. You had to have bootcut pants and chunky heels.
Once in awhile, for a special occasion, I get really dressed up, but that kind of an occasion doesn’t happen very often. So I don’t really need much besides jeans.
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me – I don’t remember when I wasn’t playing piano. My second grade talent show was the first time I performed my own thing. I dressed up as Dracula and played a song called ‘Monster Rock’ that I wrote. And I won.
In high school, I always dressed to impress the girls.
I don’t know what Galliano was thinking. Apparently he dressed people as homeless and sent them down the runway. That’s not very tasteful and somewhat exploitive.
President Kennedy visited once, but that was in Switzerland and I remember the Secret Service men dressed in black swarming about the house.
I was actually born and raised in Puerto Rico. I moved to the States when I was 19. I was very impressed early on by being around people who spoke my language and ate the same food and listened to the same music, dressed the same. But then you look around and, you know, you’re not in Puerto Rico.
I think Comic Con pushes you to have a little more fun and be playful. Everyone else is dressed in cosplay… it would feel weird to wear something boring when you’re standing next to a Khaleesi!
