Blake Mycoskie Quotes

It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.

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

I've never seen anybody win the game in the media. But at the same time, I understand what it could do for you, if you wanted to be someone who talks a lot.

I'm not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I'm interested in the perception of the celebrity.

I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.

I love the responsibility of being a Victoria's Secret spokesmodel. It's a great life skill.

Anna Wintour doesn't deal with pictures; she is just doing PR and business, and she scares everybody.

When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.

Just look at all the awards shows now. It has turned into a catwalk. You have to be wearing a certain designer, a certain dress, and everyone's critiquing.

Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.

In the fact that 'Vogue' is someone that can help guide enormous audiences through this fascinating world, I would like to think we are as influential and actually are now reaching so many more people than we ever dreamt of back in the Fifties or the Sixties.

Colombians don't switch on their TVs to see me, but what I'm wearing.

I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.

On some level, you could say you wouldn't have 'In Style Magazine' at all had Anna Wintour not decided to put celebrities on the cover of 'Vogue' from her earliest years as Editor in Chief.

The way the media tends to cover fashion is as this superfluous, vacuous industry. They focus on models and shows, but behind all that is a massive global industry.

I think anyone who is ever on TV is a role model for somebody.

I'm a good manager, but a bad celebrity.

There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.

Why isn't Tilda Swinton on the covers of tons of magazines? Well, she's not that. It isn't her thing. But I don't know. I think that suddenly a time came when models, after the Linda Evangelista crowd, and Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington, when the models for me became a bit bland. But I think more than that, the culture changed. The movies, television, music, and all of those things - those people were more visual and therefore more interesting.

I don't think anyone has ever been in a better place at a better time than I was when I was editor of Vogue. Vogue always did stand for people's lives. I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress, and the sort of life you had lived before, and what you will do in it later. Like all great times, the sixties were about personalities.

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

The last time a straight man worked in the fashion industry, we got a fanny pack.

I'm not attempting to be a role model but I accept that roles I've played put me in that position. I don't feel a huge responsibility as an actress to put my young fan base first.

I mean there's still also an element of the audience looking for role models. In my day, when I started, if you were an action hero, you were a little bit of a role model like the person.

The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media.