Quotes & Sayings About Runway Models

It's useless to send models out on the runway to cry. — Sonia Rykiel

I'll be truly happy when we're not counting the number of ethnically diverse models on a fashion runway or campaign, when having a representation of the entire human race is the norm and not an exception. — Iman

I was one of the first print models to go on the runway because I wanted to do runway. When I started doing the shows, I was the only print girl there. — Linda Evangelista

I think Jennifer Lawrence is a brilliant role model for young girls, not some of the models that I see on the runway. — Karen Elson

Because I'm on the runway with some of the best models in the industry. — Heidi Klum

In 2007, a very inspired New York University Ph.D. student counted all the models on the runway, every single one that was hired, and of the 677 models that were hired, only 27, or less than four per cent, were non-white. — Cameron Russell

In July 1964 an alleged incident involving Paco Rabanne rocked the
model community to its foundations. The innovative Spanish-born designer
had used black beauties in his Paris show to model his futuristic
plastic dresses, a move that enraged the American fashion press. According
to Rabanne in Barbara Summers's book Skin Deep, things got
out of hand backstage after the show. 'I watched them coming,' he said,
'the girls from American Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. "Why did you do
that?" they said. "You don't have the right to do that, to take those kind
of girls. Fashion is for us, white people." They spat in my face. I had to
wipe it off.' Rabanne was subsequently blacklisted by the fashion cartels
until black runway models finally became chic in the 1970s. — Ben Arogundade

I didn't grow up drawing runway models and deciding what they should wear. — Theophilus London

From the season I did the butterfly faux tattoos on the models on the runway, every collection we do has to have a butterfly t-shirt or trim or print. People come to me for butterflies! — Anna Sui