Top 140 Runway Quotes

I used to love doing the runway shows when I was a model and I miss that sometimes now. But it’s great to go back to it every now and then as ‘showstopper.’

Everyone needs Skin Fetish 003 in their kit. It’s the ultimate everyday essential for runway skin that looks as legendary in the office or on the street or as it does on social media.

People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven’t changed since time began. We’re still the same. We’ve obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch ‘Top Chef’, ‘Project Runway’, and ‘Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.’

Back in the day I was doing runway, editorial, advertising, spokesmodeling, and public appearances. Those are five different categories.

Walking the runway with Alexander McQueen, I really had to dig deep. You’re with Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. I was the first person out on the runway, but I thought, ‘I have done the Olympics, I can do this.’

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.

Kendall is really satisfied on her role in ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians.’ With her modeling career, she’s so busy. If she’s not walking a runway, she’s shooting a campaign or traveling around the world with her fashion obligations. She’s a pretty busy little girl.

If you feel comfortable in what you’re wearing, you’ll look your best, and I think that’s a really important idea. Sometimes, whether it’s fashion or beauty, things are on-trend, and they look beautiful on the runway, but when I apply them to myself, it doesn’t look the way it should.

I’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.

I had come out of retirement into a very difficult situation with the PeopleSoft takeover, got through it, and was having a good time, frankly. We just ran out of runway at PeopleSoft. Had we had another year, maybe two years, I think we would have made it.

I love seeing lingerie on the runway, but I personally think it’s best to save it for the bedroom!

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

If you’re 5′ 6″, just stay home. Don’t pretend you’re 5′ 8″ or 5′ 9″. If you want to be a beauty model, I guess that’s fine, you can do glamour, but you’re not going to do runway. If you’re over 29 – 26, even – I would suggest you work regionally and not try to work nationally.

I still feel like I’m alone at times – even if I’m in the midst of a million people. Because no one – including me – understands my mind creatively. I haven’t really been formally introduced to my gift yet. I feel like I’m still on the runway.

I basically modeled my way through college, doing local runway shows in L.A. that don’t pay a lot and a couple of shows in N.Y. and S.F., and I probably made the same as the average 19-year-old waiter; I just worked less and was around beautiful girls, so it was nice.

In September of 2015, I did the unthinkable: I used my second-ever runway show to bring awareness to the Black Lives Matter movement. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do professionally. It was lonely.

Lifetime never had any unscripted shows, really. It just had ‘Project Runway,’ which was a bit of an island.

‘Project Runway’ was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.

I wish I could wear clothes straight off the runway.

The first core value we have is that everyone deserves a Cinderella experience. And I have experienced a Cinderella experience. And I really believe that most people who’ve come to Rent the Runway have had a Cinderella experience.

You don’t learn style from watching people on a runway. Fashion happens every morning when you wake up.

In 1985, as a community activist and GLC councillor, I organised the first ever public meeting to explain the threat of a third runway at Heathrow airport for my local community.

The Oslo airport used to be a kilometer away from where I grew up. They moved it outside Oslo the year I was born, but they kept the runway there as a historic site.

I will be the first to say, when I started, I was the worst on the runway ever. I feel like I try to keep learning every time I step off a runway; I try to get better with each one. I hope that I’m getting better as I go – it takes a few seasons to get your Karlie Kloss walk on.

The minute a male model looks like he’s doing a runway walk, it falls apart. It should look like they’re just walking.

Years ago I was a runway model, and I used to get laughs. I thought it was a joke anyway.

All that Rent the Runway has really done is we’ve opened up the technology and logistics to make it possible to have the customer decide how long she needs an article of clothing for.

I became a cover girl and an editorial model, and then I became a runway model.

I really like ‘Project Runway.’ I know it’s reality, so that might be kind of faux pas for me to say.

I had left the runway because I had come to believe that it was questionably relevant and appropriate, because we were creating clothes that, to a large degree, never ended up making it to the stores. And the runway was being seen in markets where those clothes weren’t available.

We have parties at my house. My girlfriends and I play our iPods, with all of our favorite songs. We pick our songs and jump up on the counter and dance, and do runway stuff, and we take video with my camera. When I’m with my girlfriends, I act like I’m 19.

Every woman is not a runway model, nor should she be.

So to get back to being intimidated, yes, you get intimidated when you’re on the runway with Naomi Campbell, who is the best runway model in the world.

My personal dressing is inspired by my mood and mindset. I can jump from a girl-next-door to runway queen. I’m a T-shirt-and-jeans kind of a woman. But I also enjoy the red carpet look.

I have been a big fan of Coco Rocha’s for many, many years. I have seen her walk in runway shows, pose like no other in photo shoots, and naturally follow her every move on Twitter and Instagram.

These are clothes my friends and I could wear. This ain’t Prada. I don’t want to be one of those celebrities that slaps their name on a label and collects royalty checks. Everything on that runway reflects me.

The runway symbolizes something in society that’s very intimidating to women.

I have no desire to sell Rent the Runway. I have a 50-year vision for Rent the Runway, at least, to change consumer behavior and actually put the closet in the cloud.

Indian women have always been full-bodied and men like voluptuous women. Size zero is a concept of the West and it is only meant for the runway models, not for us.

The majority of the time, I’m just in my team training clothes or work-out gear, but whenever I’m killing time, I always like to watch ‘Project Runway’ or ‘America’s Next Top Model.’

I was able to participate in New York Fashion Week and walk down the runway. I participated in a pizza contest in Canada.

I was in Paris, Milan and London from ’89 until ’91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there’s so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!

At Rent the Runway, we rent designer clothes. We have a belief set that half of the closet over time is going to move into the cloud, and a portion of what we wear every single day will be comprised of things that we don’t own forever.

FKA Twigs is stunning. She has beautiful contemporary and unique sound with an almost psychedelic vibe. Her music is great for the runway.

My contribution to Rent the Runway as the CEO is higher than the contribution of someone on my warehouse team, but my pregnancy is not any more important than the pregnancy of any single person who works at my company.

Stuck in the plane on the runway. You can always count on US Air.

Partnering with Rent the Runway’s innovative model, combined with their affinity amongst millennials, provides an exciting opportunity for us. Together, we’re helping the next generation of luxury consumers discover and fall in love with designer fashion.

I sample a little bit of everything – a bit of ‘House,’ a little bit of ‘Prison Break.’ I love ‘Project Runway;’ it’s my favorite show!

With modelling, a lot happens behind the scenes; all the fittings and hair and makeup. Then the runway takes two minutes – you just walk out and come back in!

I’ve realized now that I just want to be myself. I don’t necessarily want to wear an exact copy of something on the runway, because that’s not really what style is to me.

I love to hear a cool ambient sound at runway shows. It creates a good energy.

In modeling, my height was a big challenge to overcome, because I was pretty much the shortest girl on the runway whenever I was doing the catwalk. The clothes didn’t fit and the shoes didn’t fit. It was an issue, but luckily, it didn’t prevent me from working.

When I was on ‘Project Runway,’ my website got a million hits a month, and there’s nothing bad you can say about that.