Runway Models Quotes

When it comes to Fashion Week, I'm over the too-cool-for-school runway experience with loud music in a raw space that's inconvenient for everyone.

I think Jennifer Lawrence is a brilliant role model for young girls, not some of the models that I see on the runway.

In the '80s, it got to the point where we'd have shows with a hundred looks. You'd want to order a pizza before it was over!

Walking the shows at New York Fashion Week was such a great high.

I've never seen most of the fashion reality shows. The only one I've seen is 'Project Runway,' which is great, but I don't watch television.

Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids. They're dying to know about Naomi and Christy, or whoever we've declared the new one this afternoon.

The mantle of glamour has been taken from the women and given to the men. The women toil in their shadows, plain and ordinary-looking. So that transition has left a void. It is a void for drop-dead, impossible, over-the-top glamour. Supermodels fill that void. The only thing they have to do is work the runway, sweetie, and refuse to get out of bed for less than ten thousand dollars.

I'm embracing what I have. I'm a curvier bombshell with big boobs. I'm not high-fashion. I don't do runway. You won't see me at Fashion Week.

Because I'm on the runway with some of the best models in the industry.

I hate high fashion. I hate that we reward people for being genetic freaks. You hear the guys announcing the runway shows saying, 'A pretty face is your best asset this season.' And what? Ugly girls had a free ride last year?

I love it when people who don't normally see fashion shows see them, because they find it so exciting.

I have been a muse to Mr. Saint-Laurent, Valentino, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Versace.

I really don't think we should label models as 'plus' or 'runway.'

You can watch Chanel fashion shows and watch the news. Fortunately you don't have to choose. I always vote, I go to rallies, but I also go to fashion shows.

I didn't grow up drawing runway models and deciding what they should wear.

I'm tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.

Fashion shows are glamorous for 20 minutes.

Never in a million years would I imagine Calvin Klein flying me out to my first men's fashion show.

There was no concept of fashion and catwalk shows where I came from.

I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to designers, but I love going to fashion shows just to see the other personalities that show up. It's such an eclectic group, and everybody is sort of like an artist.

I'm not one who goes to a lot of fashion shows or tries to infiltrate that world, really.

Some people say there's a reason that Victoria's Secret wouldn't put me or any woman who doesn't fit within a certain spectrum on the runway.

I hate going to fashion shows. I find them boring.

It's useless to send models out on the runway to cry.

When I started coming to do shows in New York, New York had a pretty electric energy then. It was the early-nineties, and there was a lot of really fun theatrical types that were designing, and so the runway kind of became this stage for all of these mega model personalities to flaunt their stuff.