Elle Fanning Quotes

I've been working seriously in giving fashion a place that it deserves.

I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.

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

There are highlights when you become irreplaceable as a model, like when you become a muse to designers. They look at you differently; you're not a coat hanger for hire.

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

When I'm a gender capitalist in the fashion world, I basically can go to any casting that I want to as long as somebody likes my face.

Oakland, by far, is really gorgeous; it still has these pockets that are really dangerous. Certain things are kind of normal. I think kids out there can be tested in a way where his right of passage ties into a bit of violence and how that has become these markers in masculinity and you being kind of validated after having to pass through things.

Fashion world is a unique one, and I love being part of it! I find it fascinating.

I'm very new to the fashion world, but it's such an exciting world to get into.

I was watching 'The September Issue' in the back of a theater in New York, and I thought, 'I know I really can do this with actors.'

Guys want to be cool without appearing to be bothered about trends.

The craziest thing about it, I used to hate fighting, but you had to show how tough you was; you had to show you wasn't no punk.

I was thrown into the fashion world, dating models - and you'd read about me dating a new starlet every month. That's just where my life was. But I've grown up a lot.

I was always fascinated by the absurdities and luxuries and the snobbism of the world that fashion magazines showed. Of course, it’s not for everyone...But I lived in that world, not only during my years in the magazines business but for years before, because I was always of that world-- at least in my imagination.

My career in fashion has been very much about sexuality and sex, and I think a lot of people think that's all I can do and what I am all about.

Alexander McQueen... The fashion world has not only lost an icon but we have also lost a very special friend.

The fashion world is very active and generous, despite the fact that it is not very well respected - or at least not as much as it should be.

Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep.

Every sweet, humble young model is only one campaign away from becoming a fashion monster.

Fashion as a whole is a farce, completely. The people behind it are perverted, the styles are created by freaked out people, just natural weirdos. I know this because I worked with all those people while I was modeling.

I got involved in fashion by accident. When I got to New York, my intention was to have enough money to eat and to stay and I don't have to leave. I just loved New York - the energy, the culture, the freedom.

Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

I'm not sure that being a man in the fashion industry has any advantage over being a woman. Why would it?

Everyone is just so serious right now, especially in fashion.

The pervasive idea is that if you're a man in the fashion industry, you're gay until proven otherwise. And of course there are lots of men who aren't. But people make certain assumptions.