Erin Wasson Quotes

I never thought I would model for more than a few years.

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

I never thought modeling would become my career. I thought it was something I'd do to pay my way through college.

I'd gone to Manhattan to become a model.

My mother was a fashion designer, and my father was a model.

I never thought I'd be some fashion mogul!

Yves Saint Laurent was my first fashion show. I wore his tuxedo. And Helmut Newton was my first photographer, in 1973. I was really very lucky. I had an amazing career.

My parents were like, 'Oh my God,' when I said I was going into fashion - they pictured me with a rolling rack on Seventh Avenue.

When I fell into modeling, because I wanted to work in fashion. I wanted to do styling or make-up. I ended getting picked up to be a model instead during my work experience.

I graduated from Academy of Fashion and Costume Design in Rome. At first, I thought I was going to be a costume designer for films, and then I ended up working in fashion - not as a designer, but mostly as a model.

I am still in love with couture because it is just two months from drawing pad to runway so everything on the catwalk is hot from the oven.

I don't really consider myself a model, to be honest. I respect designers; I think it's another art, you know.

I really like 'Project Runway.' I know it's reality, so that might be kind of faux pas for me to say.

I went to a local modeling school when I was about 10 and learned to walk the runway.

I came from modelling industry so I am part of fashion industry. It is not that I hated being part of glamorous film.

I suppose I have stopped modeling officially. I've not done any for a good long while now. I think it was four years ago when my feelings were changing towards the industry. I didn't hate it, but I was yearning to do something different. I was on a gradient. It was a gradual thing.

Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer.

I've always seen modeling as a stepping stone.

No, I don't think I have the same body type as the other models in shows. No, I don't think I am the best at any given show. Yes, I want a unique walk, but I also know I have to improve.

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

As a young girl, I dreamed of having a voice in fashion.

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 came out of school I didn't even think that modeling was a job.

I've always only wanted to model. It really is the only life I want.

I became obsessed watching fashion TV shows when I was a teenager and recognized that I had the height and body frame. I especially became hooked when I saw on 'E! True Hollywood Story' how much a model can make and how I can achieve a better living for my family and me.