The FiFi Report 264

  • “A lot of people say it’s nice to see someone who won’t break in half when you touch them” Curvy but skinny Model of the moment Lara Stone to W.
  • “I am still a woman and if you’re compared and confronted with your colleagues, and they’re all half your size, you think, F—, I’m really fat!” Skinny Model Lara Stone.
  • “The modeling ideal has been one of girlish frailty ever since the disappearance of the supermodels… Lara’s curves are a perfect expression of that new power.” The Guardian
  • “Of course it is fashionable to look fey and feeble, because this suggests you do not eat much, which suggests you are thin, which suggests you can fit into Chanel sample-size clothes, which is the most important thing in the universe. And even if you can’t achieve this state of nirvana, if you pose in a manner that suggests feebleness — such as, say, folding your body in a pose that insinuates your bones have crumbled due to osteoporosis — you can fool onlookers into believing you are on the cusp of collapse. Malnutrition? Oh my God, like, such a good look.” New York Magazine
  • “I think the problem is that fashion has become too fashionable. For years, fashion wasn’t fashionable. Today fashion is so fashionable that it’s almost embarrassing to say you’re part of fashion. All the parodies of it. All the dreadful magazines. That has destroyed it as well, because everybody thinks fashion is attainable.” And models think they are fat. New York Times
  • “Our customers are still shopping. Their spending is more restrained. It’s now a two-pairs-of-Blahniks-instead-of-five kind of a thing. But it’s creeping back; by fall, it will be three-and-a-half pairs.” Simon Doonan from Barneys. It’s embarrassing to be too fashionable.
  • “in paris, coffee and cigarettes looking through jean-paul gautier’s [sic] show and salivating like a starved fashion gangster. C’est genial. xxox.” Tweets Lady Gaga Twitter/LadyGaga
  • “I’m really not interested in doing it for my own ego. I’m not a designer. [It's] gotten so ridiculous. The idea of making my own perfume makes me want to vomit.” Emma Watson on celebrity fashion lines. Not a fashion Gangster.
  • Read more about Lara Stone here…