A biography for Jeremy Scotthasn’t been written yet.
“I think when people think of something as basic, they think that it's boring.”
“I'm fully aware, fully on, and fully kind of designing everything that goes on with me. Anything that's happening is definitely on my table.”
“I'm a populist. I'm the people's designer... It's important that there are price points that allow people in who maybe don't have the ability to have higher-ticket items - but they can still have something very emblematic of the collection.”
“I think about my friends all the time when I'm designing. That's always an arbiter. Would Katy wear this? Would Rihanna wear this? Would Sia wear it? Would Miley wear it?”
“I feel very blessed to have such wonderful cheerleaders and champions of my work.”
“One thing I have that the majority of other designers don't is humor. That's distinctly my approach, and it was distinctly Franco Moschino's, too.”
“I don't care if the critics don't like me. I want to be the people's designer, like Diana was the people's princess.”
“You don't have to be born wealthy and have an aristocratic last name or have connections or all these things. If you have a dream, you can believe in something and work hard and struggle and fight for it and still have a chance to succeed.”
“'What if this funny-looking youngster from Missouri is talented after all?' I think it was a nice place to grow up, but I'm glad I don't live there anymore.”
“I have a nostalgia for the years I was growing up and experiencing new things for the first time - so the late '80s and early '90s are always fascinating to me. Those were the times that I was being informed about a lot of my tastes, and so the memories are fused with a lot of emotion.”
“I feel my role is to push boundaries. I don't like things to be safe and sedentary. So controversy is the cross I have to bear.”
“If Michelle Obama had stepped out in an outrageously priced jacket by an Italian designer, heads would have rolled. People would have said it was deplorable.”
“There probably wasn't a day that went by in high school that I wasn't bullied either physically or verbally. It made me stronger, and I knew I had to stay steadfast to what I believed in.”
“For me, actresses are constantly chameleons, and so they are taking a backseat to their own personality. I don't feel like we're trying to show off their personality as much as let them be a blank slate. It's precisely the reason why I dress more musicians than I do actresses.”
“I've been thinking a lot about how we worship celebrity and how we have Elvis and Marilyn Monroe and Jesus all on the same playing field.”
“When I was born, my family was so poor that there was no money to buy food. So the church bought groceries for us - there wasn't any kind of privilege.”
“Night in. I'm really kind of a homebody.”
“McDonald's, Barbie - they're all icons, recognizable from London to Timbuktu.”
“There are so many serious things in the world; I just choose not to be one of them.”
“Fashion is an ultimate luxury - I mean, you don't need it - so it should bring you pleasure and make you happy. I don't like the idea of people revering it.”