Junot Diaz Quotes

I love being able to express myself through what I wear - and for it to be a way of expressing uniqueness and individuality.

Fashion is temporary; fashion is a race. What it's doing is giving you something that you say, "This is the outer wrapping of me." Style is something else. It's not quantifiable. Fashion is about selling. Fashion is about what's in. Style is independent of that; style is individual.

Fashion is ultimately a form of self-expression. That's why I love trying out new things.

Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost.

I am interested in costume. Clothes in your daily life are important: your choices say something about you, even if what they're saying is about non-choice. And what you wear in a film is crucial.

I think everybody has their own unique style.

Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.

I think men look best when they're dressed in something that makes them feel comfortable.

Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.

Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them.

Fashion is something that comes and goes. What remains is your style and that's nothing but an extension of your personality that you are showcasing via your clothes.

My favorite thing about beauty and fashion in all seasons is that it's a way to reinvent ourselves.

Everybody knows how important clothes are, for yourself as a person, and of course for a character it is the same. It's everything.

Fashion can often be dictated. It's what people think we should do or wear. Style is totally personal.

Fashion is a huge part of my life.

Fashion, to me, is trends - it's what other people are wearing; it's what's hot this season. I'm not as interested in that. Style, to me, is personal. Style is what each individual has.

In fashion, you express yourself however you want. You express your personality.

You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style.

I personally like being unique. I like being my own person with my own style and my own opinions and my own toothbrush.

Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.

An air of fashion, which is but a badge of slavery ... proves that the soul has not a strong individual character.

Style is a way of talking about yourself.

Fashion is just something money can buy. People who are stylish are free and have no fear in staying true to themselves. Plus, style is infinitely more interesting.

Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.

I love color and I love to dress like a woman.