Christian Siriano Quotes

I like what L'Oreal stands for, which is women of worth.

I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I'm trying to do creatively. At the same time, I do think it's wonderful when I hear people say that it's inspirational that I'm an Indian woman on camera. My life is very diverse, and my friends are a diverse group of people.

I'm out here to represent the gingers, the gypsies, and the outcasts. Because I am all of the above, and I'm all about having a great time.

I'm Italian and Spanish and Jewish. I'm 100 different things meshed into one. I think that shows girls that uniqueness is beautiful. They can look at me on a magazine cover and see me in a movie and say that they have someone they can relate to.

It's so important for young girls of color - young girls of any color - to see diverse women as the heroes of their own story.

What I have learned is that designers are willing to tell the world that they are here to empower women from all different backgrounds and different walks of life.

I always spread my message of body positivity and fashion for everybody.

I like Marvel because characters look like me and women don't have roles that make them look too sexual.

It's incredible to see fashion starting to become more inclusive and diverse.

There's room for everyone, and everyone is wanted and needed. Whoopi showed me that. When I first saw 'The Color Purple,' it was so huge. That was the first time I had seen myself, my mother, my aunts, women that I had known my whole life on-screen. It gives us hope, and it gives us confidence.

Working on women and working on different ages and different shapes of bodies… I love women. I love to spend more time with them.

I'm proud to be a woman. I'm proud to be a black woman, and I'm proud to be gay.

I'm going forward, so my clothing line is kind of the physicalization of that. The idea of diversity, of uniqueness, of individuality - that's what this is all about.

I really hope that the fashion community will not accept anything that does not represent everyone.

We have a lot of different girls on the runway today! All different sizes.

We're seeing more inclusivity in fashion when it comes to size, and we have to continue featuring more and more diversity.

As a writer, I must be free to say what is in all the diversity I can command. I regret the distorting prejudices that surround me, whether they affect homosexuals or men or the physically handicapped and I can't alone defeat them. They will not defeat me, either as a lesbian or a writer.

Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured.

I wanted to see people from different age groups, body shapes and personalities wearing Lanvin That is what Lanvin is all about and represents - we dont only do clothes for 20-year-old girls. I love to see mature women wearing Lanvin as well. I love wrinkles, I love grey hair.

Benedict XVI kept saying that homosexuals are deviant. They're not deviant. They're deviant only if you say that anyone who is different from me is abnormal.

I proudly love being a Negro woman -- it's so involved and interesting.

This moment is so much bigger than me. It's for every nameless, faceless woman of colour that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.

It's important to have the diversity of thought and approach that comes with being a woman.

I enjoy that the most powerful person in Hollywood is indeed a Black woman in Oprah Winfrey. I'm hoping to just transcend beyond that.

People experience all kinds of prejudice because of all different parts of themselves. And that doesn't make one part more important than the other. We live in a society that does not openly accept every kind of human being. And so the result is when you are yourself and someone who's marginalized, it becomes a revolutionary act - just being comfortable in your own body and being comfortable speaking, sharing your ideas. It's really amazing and also, like, kind of sad.