Vivienne Westwood Quotes

I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.

If you're a model, you're paid to be a muse.

Modeling isn't all that tough.

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

I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.

One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!

I'd never planned on being a model.

It's every girl's dream to be a cover girl!

I'd gone to Manhattan to become a model.

If you're a model, you're supposed to know how to walk, aren't you?

During a fashion show, I want the clothes to speak. The effort I put into my work must be respected.

Makeup contracts are the Oscars of the modeling world.

You become a model once you go through hair, makeup, and Photoshop.

I had a fantastic time as a model.

I didn't always want to be a model, but once I started, I realized how much I loved it.

People associate pageants with glamour, where there are celebrities walking on the ramp wearing beautiful gowns, heels and make-up - but that's just one aspect.

[There is] a breed of fashion models

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.

Modelling is very two-dimensional. You really don't have to bare anything.

Fashion gave me the platform that has made this transition from fashion to Hollywood, from East Coast to West Coast. Fashion gave me the platform that has made this easier than it is for a lot of other people. And I will always count fashion as the industry that was first to welcome me and embrace what I could do.

I have dreams and aspirations of taking a stroll down the ramp at a pay-per-view setting. Everybody has those dreams as a kid, and that'd be really cool.

I first realized I wanted to model when my mum and I were at a local carnival, and she took me to a fashion show. I had never been to one before, and when I saw the girls on the catwalk, I fell in love with them.

I love being on the catwalk.

My mom never used to put makeup on. But one day, when I was a kid, she had a red lip, and I was like, 'Oh my God, you look so amazing!' She said, 'But if I wore it all the time, you would not have noticed.'

I've always thought of modeling as a performance, so I don't mind kind of pretending. I kind of pretend in a lot of my poses that I am a ballerina or a hip-hop dancer or a grunge performer.