"If you make a mistake in what you put together, the fashion police are not going to haul you into jail. Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself."
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It's called "power clashing" for a reason. "You have to try it. When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else."
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"Jewelry is the most transformative thing you can have in your wardrobe. If you have simple clothes, you can change the whole look of your outfit with just one piece."
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"I don't expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug, and you get inspired. You have to be interested. If you're not interested, you can't be interesting."
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"You have to look in the mirror and see who you are. It might be trendy, but you can't buy it just because Iris told you to. You don't want to buy something just because Angelina Jolie looked good in it. People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive."
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"That's the problem today. People are always looking for an easy way to find their look, but you have to cultivate it. You should have the courage to try certain things. Just try it and see if you like it! Color can raise the dead. "
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"I think it's important to be experimental and open, but don't go after trends. If the trend is to buy dainty jewelry, someone like me would never buy it because I'd look like a fool. Buy clothes that work for you, not because they are trendy, and you will have them a lifetime and always look great."
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"Coco Chanel said take one thing off. I always said put another one on. I don't dress to be stared at. I dress for myself. There's no how-to roadmap to style. It's about self-expression and, above all, attitude."
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"Whenever I saw unusual things, I bought them—in all kinds of crazy places. I buy small things that appeal to me, and I collect jewelry with a vengeance. I never buy what someone says is "in" or a "must-have." I buy what makes me happy."
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"I found [my signature glasses] at a flea market, and I started to wear them when I needed to wear glasses! As a matter of fact, I liked them so much—the great big ones—sometimes I’d wear them without any lenses, just as an accessory, as I thought they were so fantastic."
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"If your hair is done properly and you're wearing good shoes, you can get away with anything. It's better to be happy than to be well-dressed. If you aren't comfortable in your clothes, no matter how glamorous they are, you're going to look stiff, which is no fun. You have to look in the mirror and see who you are and buy what suits your way of life."
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"The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well."
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"The fashion industry doesn't just forget old people. It forgets middle-aged people. Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-olds' dollars. Fashion you can buy, but style you possess."
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"Aging gracefully is about no heavy makeup, and not too much powder because it gets into the wrinkles, and you know, to not get turtle eyelids, and to not try to look young. You don’t have to look like an old fuddy-duddy, but I believe it was Chanel who said, ‘Nothing makes a woman look so old as trying desperately hard to look young.’"
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"Those big platforms and insanely high heels. They look like an orthopedist’s delight. I don’t see anything beautiful about them."
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