Top 55 Jeremy Scott Quotes

I feel like we have to fight for art.

I really don’t see little girls growing up and thinking, ‘Oh, I’m going to morph myself so I look like Barbie.’

I’m not anti-intellectual, but primarily, I try to feel things. Emotions aren’t always rational; it’s not possible to put them into words.

I don’t do many social events in the fashion industry. Instead, I go to things like the MTV awards because that’s where I fit in – wearing a yellow tuxedo and no shirt on a red carpet.

I feel very blessed to have the support I have and to have the fans that I have. I’m still striving to make it every day.

Posterity is something I’m a big fan of because that’s how you leave your legacy. Not to sound pompous, but just to be truthful.

When Jackie Kennedy wanted to wear her favourite European designers, she was told no. She had to start working with brands like Adolfo, who had to create Chanel knock-offs because that’s what she wanted to wear.

I have a nostalgia for the years I was growing up and experiencing new things for the first time – so the late ’80s and early ’90s are always fascinating to me. Those were the times that I was being informed about a lot of my tastes, and so the memories are fused with a lot of emotion.

One thing I have that the majority of other designers don’t is humor. That’s distinctly my approach, and it was distinctly Franco Moschino’s, too.

I’m very organic in nature with my creativity. It just kind of wraps around me, or it’s a moment I have, a click of inspiration. It’s never calculated.

It was here in L.A., before ‘I Kissed a Girl’ and all that. She stopped me and told me she was a huge fan and that she was a singer and that one day she hoped that I would dress her. I ended up dressing her for her record release.

If Michelle Obama had stepped out in an outrageously priced jacket by an Italian designer, heads would have rolled. People would have said it was deplorable.

Being pure in my voice has always served me the best. Anytime I’ve tried to hide my light under a bushel, it’s never done me any good.

I know that my image and my clothing and my output are very colorful and can be arresting and startling in some respects. That is the nature of my work, but I am a simple farm boy, and I am very calm by nature.

When I had no place to live and I had no place to sleep – and I did sleep in the Metro – I held steadfast to the fact that I had a dream, a reason why I’m doing this… that it was bigger than this moment.

When I was born, my family was so poor that there was no money to buy food. So the church bought groceries for us – there wasn’t any kind of privilege.

I’m a very normal person with a very even keel.

I’ve met people with my prints tattooed on them, my face tattooed on them – I have that commitment and love.

I love MTV, and I love the VMAs. There’s no award show like it. It really is the coolest award show, hands down.

I always grew up watching things transform, and a lot of that was what we would call trash.

By the nature of fashion, you’re only as good as your last collection, so I’m constantly striving to be better, so I don’t look at it as if I’ve made it.

I like to think of my work and the way people approach it in the same way people approach a Lichtenstein painting. You can write a one-hundred-page dissertation about why he used comics. Or it could be like, ‘This is cute!’

I get love from fans in a big enough dosage that it acts as a shield, and I would not sacrifice that love in order to please the industry.

I was Hillary in ’08. I love Obama, but I was Hillary first, so I was happy to be back there with her again.

I’ve always felt like an outsider, and I’ll probably continue to always feel like an outsider. Hopefully that’s a good thing. I feel like I approach things differently than other designers.

I don’t really dissect too much when ideas come – they just kind of pop into my head; I just take them and run.

I think because of the eccentricity of my work and how I dress, people expect me to be bouncing off the walls. But that’s just not how I am.

There are so many serious things in the world; I just choose not to be one of them.

I’ve taken a look back at my body of work and tried to deduce an essence, capturing aspects that reoccur. Reflecting on your own product can be difficult yet enthralling.

I follow my inspiration to wherever it goes. I do want the fans to feel the fun and excitement about it, and I like for people to be able to make their own interpretations about my work.

You don’t have to be born wealthy and have an aristocratic last name or have connections or all these things. If you have a dream, you can believe in something and work hard and struggle and fight for it and still have a chance to succeed.

I want my clothes to have a life and then end up in a secondhand store, where some cool girl discovers them 20 years later. If the runway or red carpet is the only life clothes have, it’s sad.

There’s a lot of fashion that I don’t respond to and I just walk on. I always look for things that make me happy, and in my work, all I’m doing is trying to convey that joy. Fashion should always be fun.

I was born dirt-poor with barely a stitch on my back, and no name or prestige attached to me, and no real clout or connections.

I think Barbie and I are very similar in many respects. That’s why she made such a great muse for the summer Moschino collection.

I feel very blessed to have such wonderful cheerleaders and champions of my work.

Fashion should have a transgressive nature; it can make you feel like someone else, give you heightened emotion. It should bring you joy and uplift you.

I think about my friends all the time when I’m designing. That’s always an arbiter. Would Katy wear this? Would Rihanna wear this? Would Sia wear it? Would Miley wear it?

Melania rarely wears American labels, with the exception of Ralph Lauren, who created a duplication of a Jackie Kennedy look, which was basically a costume anyway.

Night in. I’m really kind of a homebody.

McDonald’s, Barbie – they’re all icons, recognizable from London to Timbuktu.

When I design, I always pull from things that are significant to me. In my work, I search for happiness and then try to convey that joy in the clothes.

For me, actresses are constantly chameleons, and so they are taking a backseat to their own personality. I don’t feel like we’re trying to show off their personality as much as let them be a blank slate. It’s precisely the reason why I dress more musicians than I do actresses.

I think fashion takes itself way too seriously. It’s just fashion, people. It’s just clothes. It should be frivolous and fun. You’re not meant to see it as church and pray to a blouse.

I’m an introverted extrovert. My job sets me apart, but I’m not hammy and don’t need attention.

The main thing I hope people see is how passionate I am about my work, and I know people talk about it, but I do work really hard on my stuff, and it means a lot to me.

Suddenly, Dallas has become a big part of my life, and now I feel like I’m part of the fabric of the community here.

I don’t care if the critics don’t like me. I want to be the people’s designer, like Diana was the people’s princess.

I feel my role is to push boundaries. I don’t like things to be safe and sedentary. So controversy is the cross I have to bear.

I moved to Paris around 1995 or 1996; my first collection on the runway was in 1997.

I think when people think of something as basic, they think that it’s boring.

Madonna is the ultimate pop star of all time, hands down. She wrote the playbook for it. There is no female pop star – and probably few men today, for that matter – who are not indebted to her in one way or another for her contributions to the industry.

Sometimes when I’m just really relaxed, that’s also a creative time for me, because that’s when my mind is more open because I’m not worried or thinking or being very analytical.

I’ve been thinking a lot about how we worship celebrity and how we have Elvis and Marilyn Monroe and Jesus all on the same playing field.

I’m a populist. I’m the people’s designer… It’s important that there are price points that allow people in who maybe don’t have the ability to have higher-ticket items – but they can still have something very emblematic of the collection.