Stephen A. Smith Quotes

I think fashion is repulsive. The whole idea that someone else can make clothing that is supposed to be in style and make other people look good is ridiculous. It sickens me to think that there is an industry that plays to the low self-esteem of the general public. I would like the fashion industry to collapse.

Of course, I always loved fashion - and I was always the tallest one and the skinniest one, so that helped.

I don't want to look like a bum.

I have a problem with fashion magazines sometimes - they seem to have these dogmas or uniforms. 'This is the way you must look; this is this season's must-have.' I really resent the phrase 'must-have.' I prefer to decide for myself what I think is beautiful or fashionable.

As a woman, and as somebody in the public eye, we always have to be ready for the red carpet and have the nicest outfit, work with the best makeup artist. While all that's nice, we're also human beings.

I, Lesley, I like looking nice. I like doing my hair and wearing makeup and wearing nice clothes. But I don't care what my characters look like.

Not one person I know isn't concerned with their appearance. To trivialize fashion is to rob ourselves of a great tool.

I think we live in a time where people are just insane on the subject of how they look.

There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way.

I just don't understand how you can not be concerned about your appearance. From time to time I'm vilified as the person who cares about the look of a teapot - and it's not that I believe my taste is superior, I just can not believe that other people don't care.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

I'm really tired, incredibly tired of hearing people say that fashion is behind anorexia.

The pressure to look good is intense. It is hard to be immune to that and the self-consciousness that comes with it.

I want people to stop being so obsessed with the way they look.

I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now.

I was never interested in how I look.

A lot of my day is consumed with how I look.

I hate the pressure of having to look good all the time.

Because I would be around so many people in the fashion industry, there's this kind of dialogue. People would always say, 'Oh your daughter is so beautiful. Is she a model?' And it was so strange for me to hear because I felt so not beautiful inside.

A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes.

I cancel going out if my hair doesn't look good.

They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

I used to be obsessed about how I presented myself. I didn't want other people dressing me because I didn't want to be treated like a clothes horse.

I don't look at fashion the way other people do.