Selena Gomez Quotes

I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.

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

I went to London Fashion Week for the first time, after I got the job [on The Collection ], and it completely changed the way I perceived it. I thought, "This is a far bigger operation than I ever expected, and it has far more worth than I ever gave it before." It definitely changed my view of the fashion world.

Fashion Week is surprisingly very short. At least the actual runway shows are.

I have always worked a bit with fashion people. I worked with Issey Miyake for a while, then Dolce & Gabbana; now we're working with Valentino. It's fine. The fashion world is a fairly weird world, but there are good people in it. It's weird because their timetables are unbearable.

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

Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.

I don't understand the fashion industry and the appeal of it. I understand that there are some people who think it's important to them, and they're designers, they're artists, but there seems to be a disproportionate amount of our culture that's caught up in that and the red carpet stuff. It seems like there's a disproportionate amount of attention placed on that.

high fashion has little to do with what women wear and a lot to do with what retailers mark down later.

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.

Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids.

It's true that fashion is looking at fashion all the time, and this is quite boring.

I didn't know about the fashion world, or at least I took it for slightly superficial. I didn't realize the extent of it.

I separated myself in Prada because I didn't want to have fun. They were all having a lot of fun - Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci - and they were a little coterie of laughs.

Fashion is something I've always been interested in... I used to watch the Oscars but paid no attention to the awards... It wasn't until I started attending red carpet events and was flown out to Paris for my first show, and saw how much is put into it all, that I had this new appreciation for everything.

When I started in 1992, I really thought the 'Vogue' fashion department was one of the most frightening places on the planet.

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

It's not really like you have a thing like a supermodel anymore. It's more of a word than a real existence. I think, also, looking at it from a designer's point of view, at one point maybe they felt the stars took too much attention away from the clothes.

For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.

I never was interested in being part of the fashion world - I just wanted to design shoes. I didn't even know 'Vogue' existed when I was growing up. 'Vogue,' what is that?'

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

My parents are famously not part of the gestalt of the fashion industry.

For a lot of people, it's a massive deal to be on the front row at Fashion Week and look perfect. I don't go to be seen; I go to look at the collections and support my friends, like Henry, Giles and Jonathan Saunders. As much as I love clothes and shopping, it doesn't drive me.

Fashion Week is horrible. I mean, it isn't horrible, really - it's amazing. But having to work that much every day is.

The fashion world is much more ephemeral than the film industry and moves at a faster pace, and it's got even more frenetic since the Nineties; more paparazzi hanging about and it seems to me there are even more fashion magazines.