Music and fashion go hand in hand. I think music inspires all types of arts; it inspires life, emotion, mood, and all of those things are reflected in my fashion and my style. One doesn't go without the other.
My music definitely determines the direction we're gonna move in. It's like music, fashion, hair, makeup.
The way I dress depends on how I feel. I never have to psych myself up. Usually it just feels like it works.
Fashion has always been my defense mechanism.
Even as a child I remember thinking, She can beat me, but she cannot beat my outfit.
I have two main hair people I work with. They're always with me. I'm like, 'I'm bored! I wanna change my hair!' That's the good thing about a weave. You can do whatever with it.
All my favorite artists and fashion icons and models are from the Nineties. Everybody was just so fearless.
More than anything, I like a jacket. You can do anything with a great jacket, the bigger the better. You can have any silhouette underneath. It gives you an attitude. It makes a gown look cool.
My jewelry's all fake - from Claire's. Or I get it from my mom's boutique in Barbados.
My fashion is part of who I am, and though I was not born with these clothes on, I was born this way.
I wear black diamonds instead of regular ones because I'm not flashy, just flossssy.
In public, I like real conservative clothes, something that's not too flashy. But onstage, I like 'em as flashy as you can get 'em.
Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.
I don't consider my own clothing to be outrageous. The truth is that people just don't have the same references that I do. To me it's very beautiful and it's art, and to them it's outrageous and crazy.
Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice.
There's this idea that it's all natural, but everything's been staged to look natural. It is also an invention. It's just that my inventions are different. I often get asked about my artifice, but isn't fashion based on the idea that we can create a fantasy?
I think that fashion and music go hand-in-hand, and they always should. It's the artist's job to create imagery that matches the music. I think they're very intertwined.
My fashion is my most prized possession for two reasons: 1) because it is a visualization of all the hard work I've put in to get where I am today; 2) because it is a legend to the encyclopedia of my life. It is exactly what I've aimed to seep into the artistic consciousness of people all over the world - that life is an art form.
They're not prosthetics. They're my bones. They come out when I'm inspired. They've always been inside of me, but I have been waiting for the right time to reveal to the universe who I truly am.
I'm inspired by fashion. I'm inspired by the moonlight. I'm inspired by sex and pornography and slasher films.
