Photograph and Quote: No. 10

"You can tell the state of civilization by the way people dress. If the people who fought two World Wars came back to 2010 and saw all of us running around in tracksuits, what would they think? It is just being sloppy. And it is not about the money, it is a mindset" - Daphne Guinness

Photograph and Quote: No. 9

This quote really applies to me right at the moment!

“Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.” - Grace Jones

Photograph and Quote: No. 8

"When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good." — Karl Lagerfeld

Photograph and Quote: No. 7

"I think about a shape. If you as a designer, your aesthetic, were to walk through a wooden door, what shape would it make?" - Lady Gaga

Photograph and Quote: No. 6

"I don't think it's possible for any man to be sexy unless he's got a touch of femininity in what he's wearing" - Vivienne Westwood

Photograph and Quote: No. 5

"I do like to push. Although I can look quite androgynous and transvestite, I’m anti-camp and I’m anti-ball gowns. I never got attacked when I lived in New York, because people were terrified." - Isabella Blow 

Photograph and Quote: No. 4

Grace Jones

"Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy."

Photograph and Quote: No. 3

Leigh Bowery

"I don't want to be remembered as a person with Aids, I want to be remembered as a person with ideas."

Photograph and Quote: No. 2

Daphne Guinness

"... I just am what I am, then when people label me eccentric or different I'm kind of astonished because I sort of think this is completely normal. This is just how I am, it's how I've always been."

Photograph and Quote: No. 1

Isabella Blow

"If you’re beautiful you don’t need clothes. If you’re ugly like me, you’re like a house with no foundations; you need something to build you up."