You know how Bette Midler always says her obituary will read, ‘Bette Midler dies. Started her career at the Continental Baths?’ Mine will say ‘Chris March died. He was on Season 4 of ‘Project Runway.” It’s an amazing show, it did a lot for me, and I’m fine with it. Unless it becomes terribly disreputable.
Vintage is rad because the clothes have a history. It’s not straight off the runway and you’re not going to see a lot of people wearing the exact same items.
We’re the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it’s an awful lot.
I’m embracing what I have. I’m a curvier bombshell with big boobs. I’m not high-fashion. I don’t do runway. You won’t see me at Fashion Week.
My show mode is that the dressing room is like going into the cockpit. Going down the stairs is like going on the runway, and once we begin performing, it’s flight time. I’m just floatin’ on that stage.
I want to be the Joan of Arc of fashion. I want to be the link between the runway and the real woman.
I want my clothes to have a life and then end up in a secondhand store, where some cool girl discovers them 20 years later. If the runway or red carpet is the only life clothes have, it’s sad.
I would say runway is easier because your job is to look good or play a character that is just going somewhere. It’s rather physical, whereas acting is terrifying because you’re dealing with your subconscious, and those can be murky waters. But I definitely can say that I enjoy acting more as an artist.
I became interested in fashion when my mother did a runway show for Thierry Mugler.
The runway isn’t just about showing fashion, it’s about gaining confidence. And I really believe that once you’ve got your confidence, you can wear anything, you can do anything.
Modelling is a bit baffling when you’re 18. I just thought, ‘Brilliant – I get paid lots of money to walk down a runway.’ I didn’t think I was signing up to be a poster girl for anything.
Sometimes I feel like what’s hard for fashion designers to do is take looks from off the runway and actually put it into existence, into reality. That’s really the hard part.
You know those Instagram pages that post dope vintage runway looks? I always look at those.
You don’t want to have a boring runway presentation, but you don’t want to show stuff nobody is going to wear.
With confidence, I think anyone can get a dress and make it their own. I don’t think you should have it off the runway and wear it like they want you to wear it. You know, with their hair and makeup – their woman. I just think it’s boring. You have to make it your own. That’s what fashion is all about.
Bones don’t make for success on the runway, but a proportioned, balanced body does.
When I come to the arena, my mind is on basketball, not thinking I’m walking a runway.
I do enjoy fashion – a lot of runway clothes are pretty unwearable, but if moderated, the trends can be worn by just about anyone.
You have to keep in mind that fashion is constantly changing and every runway show, every designer and every photographer – they are going to have a different vision in mind.
When I was working at Trio, I was pitched ‘Queer Eye for the Straight Guy’ and I knew, whoever gets this, this is a game changer. When I started at Bravo in 2005, it was a hit, and Season 1 of ‘Project Runway’ was in postproduction.
I really don’t think we should label models as ‘plus’ or ‘runway.’
I like architectural shapes. You can’t put any shape on any body, except on the runway. In reality, it has to look and feel flattering.
I think Starbucks created a platform and, ultimately, a runway for many other companies to emulate. I suspect if we had not achieved what we have, there would have been many regional brands that would have succeeded. But I’m not sure there would have been a national brand of the scope of Starbucks.
Runway is like an adrenaline rush.
Why would I want to walk the runway for a brand to be their token plus-size girl when they’re not even making my size?
Walking runway has been something I didn’t even think would be a possibility in my lifetime with my circumstances and my origins.
I didn’t grow up drawing runway models and deciding what they should wear.
When you look at the runway now, the girls are 15 and 16 years old with no knowledge of clothes, no idea how to project themselves. I was trained how to show off the dress, how to move to make the clothes look better.
I wasn’t like those girls who give birth and are back on the runway. It took me probably six months to gain 45 pounds and I would say it took me double that time to lose it.
