Paul Marciano Quotes

There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.

I think modeling is interesting because every season, what the modeling world finds beautiful changes. Like Kate Moss, she was 5'6" and was so thin and had no curves, and that was in for a while.

If people decide thin is out, the fashion industry won't have thin models anymore. Have you spent time with fashion people? They are ruthless. They want money. And the one thing they know is people want clothes to cover their bodies. Unfortunately, most people aren't comfortable with their bodies.

Most fashion models do not look good in bikinis because they're too thin.

For modern fashion designers, bones are beautiful. I don't know why, but so many people are obsessed with the skeletal look.

So many girls trying to be models, like, 'Oh my god, I want to be a model!' Nobody really knows the reality of it. It's a lot of hard work, but at the same time, it's a lot of fun.

There's definitely been times when I've been on sets and I was the bigger model in the room, where they're casting girls.

I wish the word supermodel would just fall off the face of the earth. Anyone can be a supermodel now.

I rarely got retouched when I started modeling, and it was crucial to me to show an accurate, realistic picture of me because that's beautiful, too.

For a while, I became a model scout and agent, thinking naively I could change the industry from the inside, and even kicked off the famous 'size zero debate' with an article I wrote to the 'Evening Standard' about my concerns from behind the curtain of the business, back in 2005.

The societal obsession with appearance is definitely something that weighs on your mind as a model.

I interview about three thousand models yearly, and I must see almost 20 tons of excess avoirdupois annually.

I was called the girl that was 'pretty for a big girl,' 'the fat model.'

I've had agents tell me, 'You're not gonna be on the cover of anything; you're a catalog girl.' I've had clients tell me, 'You're too fat, and we can't book you any more because you don't fit into the jeans.'

We're shooting bathing suits down here in St. Barts of course, I do get extra self-conscious. But I'm still here. If there were really something wrong with me, then they wouldn't fly me over here to do this kind of thing - and they can use Photoshop and make me look nice.

Weight doesn’t matter. It really doesn’t. I mean, it does if you’re a model or whatever.

Girls see enough of this body that we can't imitate, that we'll never be able to obtain, these unrealistic expectations...it's better to look strong and healthy...

I'm not a full model like those other girls. Mostly I was surprised that I could hang.

I’ve never dreamed of becoming a model. As a child I was bullied and insulted as ugly

The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.

This is a profession in which how you look dictates whether or not you get work, so a model has to be healthy.

Women in New York have to work much harder to compete with the supermodels for attention.

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.

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.