The FiFi Report 278

  • “She’s vice captain of her class! My goodness! I’ve never been vice captain of anything! She wants to be a chef, and her imaginary husband is a chef too. I was mother of the bride at their imaginary wedding, standing on the side holding her imaginary baby.” Kate Moss talks about her daughter. (NB: the new Christmas collection is now online at TopShop)
  • “I hate celebrities. All those pointless girls — I won’t name names, but you know who I mean. They are ‘famous.’ Ridiculous. I like women with style to wear my shoes.” (and imaginary husbands) Manolo Blahnik
  • “The fact that thin is in — who cares? It’s why I stopped eating. I think food is for fat people and poor people. Rich people don’t eat. They get dressed up and go shopping.” (For Manolo Blahniks) stylist Robert Verdi.
  • “Never! Never, that’s my idea of hell. I was asked to do a line. I was like, ‘Are you crazy?’” Christian Louboutin on designing clothes (for fat or skinny people).
  • “I remember when I was young, they told me that if I didn’t lose weight I’d be out of the show, so I spent a week living off of coffee.” Grace Coddington of her younger days being a model (didn’t eat and went shopping).
  • “I love Monopoly, Parcheesi, Chinese checkers and anything that keeps me occupied from getting married again.” And eating again? Whoopi Goldberg
  • “I don’t want to stand next to a 20-year-old on the runway, even if people say you can still do it. It is like, ‘Why would I do that to myself?’ It would just make me depressed.” Cindy Crawford (yes, but I don’t want to stand next to Cindy Crawford.)
  • “I usually wear the same dress twenty times. I think it’s always fun to have something new, but it doesn’t mean that everything you already have in your closet has to be thrown out, you know? Recycle.” Rich and very dressed Anna Wintour.