Fashion Industry Standards Quotes

I feel that women have been neglected, unnecessarily neglected and mistreated personally by the fashion industry and shapewear in that entire category was a definite place that we were neglected.

A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.

I'm a size 4. In modeling, that's often too big.

I'm considered a huge model because I'm a size six. But... I had a standard body size for catalogues.

She was so fat that her clothes are made by Omar the tent maker.

When I think about the idea of Rebel Wilson having to go to the Oscars and not having something amazing to wear that's made for her, it drives me mad.

People say: 'Models are so young, they're so skinny.' But Mr. Balenciaga used models at 16, and that will never change. People say they are skinny, but there is a difference between skinny and sick. If someone is sick, they're sick. It's not because of fashion. If I have flu, I have flu; it's not because I work in fashion.

Fashion has to be about what is.

When I'm working in the real world with real women and we're shopping, we find that fashion seems to end when you get any larger than a size 12. How ridiculous is that?

There have been top supermodels in the past that weren't as tall as the industry demands, like fashion icon Kate Moss.

I'm doing all that I can to prod the industry and get them to pay more attention [to larger women and petite women]. Because I find it to be reprehensible and repugnant that two populations that are so pervasive in this nation should be so badly neglected.

It's not an area where designers want to focus or pay attention - women who are larger than a size 12.

Many students don't really like it (fashion). If they don't like it, they won't be able to tell you who the stylists are or the photographers. If they say they can't remember the names but they recognize the work, I'll say that's bullshit because if you were selling mobile phones, you'd know all about the phones' features and tariffs.

There's 67 percent of women that are in this plus-size world that we live in. And that's over half of the women in the world. So why are we not dressing for [them]?

I did not label myself 'plus size.' The fashion industry did.

I thought at 46 years old, I've been removed from the fashion industry for 10 years. I couldn't possibly write a model's book. That's for a 20-year-old. But I could say what I want to say without chastising the industry.

I find it infuriating that in this industry, size 10 and above is defined as 'plus size,' especially when the average dress size in the U.K. is a 16.

I find fashion magazines so incredibly boring . . . There still is no new photography and no new concerns.

I'd love there to be more larger models, but it's just not going to happen. Designers love to design for slim girls.

If a plus-size woman is not represented in fashion or on TV, what the hell are we doing?

It's as if the fasion designers decided that once a woman hit a certain weight, she'd have no need for business suits, for skirts and blazers, for anything except glorified sweatsuits, and they tried to apologize for dressing us like overaged Teletubbies by silk-screening daisies on the tops.

I was the first size 14 model to be featured in an ad in the magazine,I was the first size 14 model on the cover!

There are some brilliant designers but their clothes only really suit 6 foot 20-year-olds.

The fashion industry at large has been the worst public relations vehicle for larger women and petite women, they are both maligned and neglected. And I honestly do believe it's getting better.

Why would I want to walk the runway for a brand to be their token plus-size girl when they're not even making my size?