Fashion Model Quotes

I would love to be a spokes model for Karl Lagerfeld or Balenciaga or something like that.

I've always dreamed of being a 'Burberry Girl', but know it'll never happen, because I'm not British. Still, you can't stop a girl from dreaming. And owning way too many Burberry coats!

Everybody would like to be on the cover of 'Vogue.'

Grace Kelly was a very commercial model; she had no interest in being a fashion model. None at all.

Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.

I want to be on the cover of 'GQ.' That's a personal goal.

I was a floor model at I. Magnin. I'm 5 feet 7, but my legs weren't long enough to be a big-time model. From the knees up, everything is long, but from ankle to knee, if I was in proportion, I'd be 5 feet 9.

If I do something, I want to be the best. And one of the best things you can be is a Victoria's Secret Angel; for me, that's always been a goal.

[There is] a breed of fashion models

The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.

Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal. No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl.

I have lots of muses, but one of my main girls is Cara Delevingne. She epitomises the way to wear my clothes. I love how she mixes up her style and the way she has so much fun. I simply adore her.

As a high-fashion model, I have long had a policy of no nudity or partial nudity in my photo shoots.

I have no interest whatsoever in being a high-fashion model, nor is it possible.

I wouldn't be a good model for any designer's idea of what fashion is.

I became a cover girl and an editorial model, and then I became a runway model.

Kate Moss. She looks good in anything. She would look good in one of your t-shirts, in her t-shirt, in a man's suit, in a huge gown. She looks amazing naked. She even makes nude look stylish. That, to me, is a style icon. She could put a barrel on and it would be some sort of statement.

I got to host a radio show. I got a clothing range. I was the face of fashion week. I got to do a whole television show with kids.

I don't even think when I'm walking down the runway. I don't really breathe either.

I remember hearing other models talk about going to castings for Givenchy, and I was like, 'What are they saying?' And then I realized and was like, 'Oh, the Give-in-chee one.' I had been calling it Give-in-chee the whole time. I was shocked.

My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976.

I think Cindy Crawford is awesome. I love her style.

Abbey Lee was a very famous model and had great success. She was very open about the negative aspects of that industry.

There's nothing like being in fashion. A man that has once got his character up for a wit is always sure of a laugh, say what he may. He may utter as much nonsense as he pleases, and all will pass current. No one stops to question the coin of a rich man; but a poor devil cannot pass off either a joke or a guinea without its being examined on both sides. Wit and coin are always doubted with a threadbare coat.

I've worn a lot of humdingers in my time, but as a model it's my duty - my responsibility - to bring life to any garment. That can be challenging when it comes to high fashion, where the creations can be very eccentric, but I've gained a reputation for being the go-to girl who can pull it off.