Fashion is not about buying a second skin. Fashion is about having a fantasy.
Modeling is about illusion. It's a fantasy world where models play various roles. By featuring extreme looks, magazines show women how to have fun with makeup and clothes, and to inspire them to experiment - just like we did when we were little girls.
I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.
Not only is my wardrobe totally average, my body's totally average. I love all the candy-fantasy fulfillment of Sex and the City.
That's the whole thing about fashion: it's fantasy. To dip into that at 18 and 19 was amazing.
People love fashion exhibits because they can fantasize. They can respond to a dress even if they can never wear a dress like that.
Any girl from any walk of life dreams of that special dress, and I try to make that dream a reality for her.
I wish I could wear clothes straight off the runway.
Like this. The wristbands you get at nightclubs next to all the bracelets? It's always the details that give me the ideas. It's fun to play with fashion because it is a fantasy. Each morning you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.
I totally wouldn't mind being able to wave my hand head to toe and have, like, a whole new outfit.
There is nothing "useful" about fashion, which is why it is fashion and not clothes. My personal opinion about the runway is that it should be used to whisk the audience off to a fantasy world that is possible, but not probably. It should delight and inspire.
I'm into clothes, but in a way that's related to wanting to walk into a film noir movie. You know, I love to go to vintage stores, but mostly it's stuff that I don't have anywhere to wear... I don't have the life that goes with the clothes.
