I moved to Paris around 1995 or 1996; my first collection on the runway was in 1997.
I love ‘Project Runway’ because I can really be of help to an industry and I can be supportive to designers.
I still get butterflies when I’m doing a runway show. The music starts, you’re wearing these gorgeous clothes and your nervous about your high heels, if your shoes are going to break, if your going to slip or do something wrong.
My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.
I started doing runway work when I was 15, and I remember meeting a model who was 30 – ancient, for the industry – and everyone was so happy to see her. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve experience the same thing. People are just thrilled to see me modeling!
In the old days, you know, they didn’t have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout.
I just feel the traditional runway format is old-fashioned.
And I think every woman can be a diva, and every woman can be just a woman. I think life is a runway, and you can do everything you want. If you want.
I love ‘Project Runway.’ It’s my favorite show!
Almost every one of us interacts with the experience or sharing economy every day, and I’m proud that Rent the Runway has helped to popularize and normalize this behavior.
One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
I love working with really early stage startups where the outcome is still in doubt. Maybe they’ll go on to greatness, or maybe they’ll never get off the runway at all.
I am short, so even if there are things that I like, or like on other people, I have to be aware that sometimes that won’t work on me because I’m not 5’10. It has to have a shape for my body; otherwise, I look like I am two inches tall. I have to wear things that skim my body more closely than a runway model would.
I always feel like if you have a smaller crew, you can not only get to know the individual strengths of people more specifically, but then, you also give them a longer runway to be able to apply the knowledge that they have learned to subsequent work.
When I would walk down the runway back in the late 90s, I could feel the tension from others who knew I was transgender. I could see the joy on the faces of people from my community, elated to see someone represent them.
I’m not like a runway skinny model, I’m more curvy.
I’ve never seen most of the fashion reality shows. The only one I’ve seen is ‘Project Runway,’ which is great, but I don’t watch television.
Makeup is very important for a show. It’s really an accessory on the runway. You have to be sure that it fits the clothes.
From all indications, the Offutt runway replacement is not a matter of ‘if.’ It is a matter of ‘when.’
Seeing that ‘Project Runway’ sign at the end of the runway just made me, like, realize, like, ‘Wow, I’m on this show. I’m living every designer’s dream right now.’
Things have to sell, of course, but if I don’t want to put bags on the runway, we don’t put bags on the runway. I have complete creative control.
I don’t know what Galliano was thinking. Apparently he dressed people as homeless and sent them down the runway. That’s not very tasteful and somewhat exploitive.
Sometimes, late at night on the set of ‘Project Runway,’ I’ve been known to pop an interpretive dance.
Fashion has a huge responsibility – in what we show on the runway, what we do in editorial, who we dress – to make sure it represents differences. If we don’t, we’re giving in to the discrimination.
My very first runway show, I was in ‘Vogue.’
I imagine how hard it might be to walk down the runway. Me in heels is, like, deforesting the forest, knocking trees, completely ‘timber!’
‘Project Runway’ made my name more high-profile. I’ve gotten to work with a lot of different celebrity clients that I never would have otherwise.
I sleep around 8 hours, but I tend to wake up several times a night with constant dreams, thoughts, and ideas related to Rent the Runway.
It really comes down to being able to inspire others by being comfortable with yourself. You have to show girls that everyone is different; everyone has things they don’t like, but they work it and walk the runway.
I started studying acting to become a better model. But, in the course of doing so, I found myself feeling the same thrill and enthusiasm that I felt the first time I came to walk on the runway.
I don’t think there’s a major change between runway and real life anymore.
In the early years of Rent the Runway, our challenge was twofold: getting investors to buy into our vision for how the world was changing and getting women to understand that renting was a viable – let alone a smarter – alternative to spending hundreds of dollars on dresses they would wear just once.
I have a big responsibility to my licenses. All my licenses draw from and take ideas from the runway.
Women in the U.S. are influenced by the same trends – popular culture, runway trends, etc. – and our hypothesis is that she’s quite anxious to be able to buy products in her town that perhaps she hasn’t been able to in the past.
I did learn a lot from ‘Project Runway,’ things I could incorporate into my own life.
Since most startups operate at a break-neck pace, with a concept to prove or a product to launch within a rapidly shortening runway of financing, company culture often gets shoved aside. This is a big, big mistake: Nobody serious about their business should put culture in the corner.
When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn’t know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma – the real divas of the runway – ‘Can you show me?’ I’ve never been afraid to ask for help.
I’ve been humbled by the amount of people who have gone out of their way to reach out, mentor me on an ongoing basis, and devote time to help solve the problems Rent the Runway faces as a company – simply out of their own interest and kindness.
I can eat healthy when I want to, and I can work out every single day, and I can have the body for a certain runway show if I need to, but that doesn’t mean that I’m doing it in an unhealthy way.
I still get butterflies when I’m doing a runway show. The music starts, you’re wearing these gorgeous clothes and your nervous about your high heels, if your shoes are going to break, if your going to slip or do something wrong.
Not that I’m bragging or anything, because I was shocked, but I literally got hundreds of emails from people during my time on ‘Project Runway’ asking me out on dates. I had no idea that people would even care.
I’m happier on the runway than I am on the red carpet. Because then I am not being myself. I think, on the red carpet, it’s a weird, like, ‘Who am I? Am I me? Am I them?’
When I walk down the runway, my main goal is to not think about the people watching. The idea of all eyes on me would make me too uncomfortable. As I step on the runway, I take a deep breath, focus on a point in the distance, and go!
I remember in 2004, I had three gorgeous transgender models on the runway. That was my strength, in a way. That I did what I thought was gonna work, and I never paid attention to the industry’s rules.
When I modeled, I lived in Europe and worked all the time. I did runway, and that’s all I did.
I’m going to be 80, walking with a stick down the runway.
Fashion is constantly changing from decade to decade, but I don’t see a change in how many black faces I see on the runway, and it’s something we should talk about because it’s a problem.
I am still in love with couture because it is just two months from drawing pad to runway so everything on the catwalk is hot from the oven.
I love rewatching ‘Real Housewives of Atlanta’ episodes, ‘Project Runway,’ ‘Making the Cut’ and other fun shows. If there’s fashion and/or drama involved, I’ll give it a watch. And of course I’ve got to watch my show ‘Dragnificent’ on TLC!
I used to have this joke: ‘Every hallway is a runway.’
I’m just a really big fan of street style. When I went to New York for Fashion Week, it was great to watch everyone on the runway and see all the beautiful clothes and to get ideas, but again, I think it’s just about being open and looking around.
You know, ‘Project Runway’ was a really special show, and we had a great five seasons with it. We loved that show, and we loved the stories that it brought to Bravo and the creativity. And it was a magic five seasons.
If I am looking to impress people, I’ll be in a Rent the Runway dress and great accessories.
For me, the runway is fun. I try to just chill out and look at faces in the crowd if I can.
Listen, there’s an expiration date for everything, but I mean, we’re not burning out on ‘Top Models,’ are we? We’re not burning out on making things in a ‘Runway’ room, are we? We’re not getting enough ‘Got Talent,’ right? We’ll never run out of talent. So, how could there be a ‘Drag’ burnout?
What you see on the runway is designed and created in America. That’s something we’re very proud of.
Is there a better example of natural selection in action than ‘Project Runway?’
I was sexually harassed while building Rent the Runway – propositioned, sent sexual text messages, harassed and threatened in person.
