Style Innovator Quotes

Marvin Gaye was one of the coolest. I look to him as a style icon and as an artist.

Bowie is probably my favorite all-around songwriter and performer and personality. His ability to change over the years is such an inspiration. I love 'Young Americans' and 'Fame.'

David Bowie is such a big influence to me. Everything about him as a person is intriguing to me.

I'm going to be a fashion icon in a minute. I'm not going to do it in a corny manner. I have a voice that speaks for a whole other market - not just black people, but high fashion urban people. I mix street wear with high fashion. It's never been seen before.

I grew up as a kid looking at artists like David Bowie and Prince; I really admired them.

Cecil Beaton was Andy Warhol before Andy Warhol, really.

I felt like I grew up with Bowie. I never dressed like him, even though I did love the music, but consistently throughout my career he has been a go-to reference point: The suit from 'Young Americans,' or the gold Missoni-type looks of Ziggy Stardust. 'The Berlin Years' still influences me.

Anna Wintour has guided me.

I pick up on styles, way before they get popular, pretty much before young kids do. I see 'em coming.

Prince is one of my biggest idols of all time, and he's the real King of Pop.

I consider myself a trendsetter.

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

Elvis Presley was the big bang. He was the most influential single figure in the history of American pop culture. He changed the way we looked, thought, dressed, held a guitar. He didn't invent rock & roll, but he defined it in a way that everyone who followed him owes him a debt.

I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time.

Oh, I think Janie Bryant is a genius. I mean, I think she changed menswear almost single-handedly with what she did on 'Mad Men.'

I would've loved to dress Diana Vreeland. I just loved her work as a creative woman and as a business woman - unpredictable, exciting, fun, and very, very clever.

My style icon has always been David Bowie. Just because of the variety of images and looks he created.

I am shocked and deeply saddened by McQueen's death. He was a genius, and his talent was second to none. Like many others, I always cited him as a hugely inspirational leader of world fashion. He will be greatly missed.

I hope people will say, 'Mr. Valentino, he did something for fashion, no?'

Who will remember Anna Wintour in the history of fashion? No one.

Elizabeth Taylor has reinvented herself and her image time and time again. The results have often helped redefine modern fashion.

A person who is anxious to be a leader of the fashion, or one of the first to follow it, will certainly appear in the eyes of judicious men to have nothing better than a frequent change of dress to recommend him to notice.