Words matter. These are the best Hailey Gates Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
Fashion weeks tend to be places of refuge for outsiders.
I never thought I would go to Gaza. It’s incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it’s a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there’s this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
I’m not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it’s not something I feel comfortable participating in.
I have a ‘Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State’ poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul’s in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
When I was young, I made all of my own clothes.
Some of us are lucky enough to choose what we wear, and some of us don’t have that luxury, but we all are communicating something to the world around us by what we wear, no matter if it’s sweatpants or a tuxedo.
Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
In China, I had my body lit on fire. And in Russia, I took a bath in reindeer blood, which apparently had some kind of youth-enhancing elements.
We did a play of ‘Frog and Toad’ at my elementary school. And I’m not sure if this is part of the book or it was something that we made up on our own, but I auditioned to play the black hole, which somehow makes sense to me.
The Congo is so fun. The ideal body type coveted by women in the Congo is this extremely curvaceous body. They’re going through a number of extreme measures to get that kind of body form, and one of them is by using bouillon cubes.
There are a lot of people who don’t want things like fashion weeks to happen.
I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don’t exactly know what we’re doing, where we’re going, or even if it’s a good idea.
I wrote a play that I directed and I was in, and I paid for the sets and the costumes and to put it up in a theater all through modeling. It really afforded me a lot of creative control in my life.
I always struggle auditioning, actually, because I’m so obsessed with era-appropriate clothing.
This idea of ‘laicite’ has been weaponized, in a way, to discriminate against people, and this idea of who gets to be French is really complicated and interesting.
I was, like, a really embarrassing, precocious child.
Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.
I would wear entirely one color: tutus, furry pants. It was totally outrageous. My family was deeply embarrassed to be seen with me.
It’s wild, how many places of conflict that have fashion weeks. It’s becoming some sort of marker for these countries that says, ‘We are in conversation with the rest of the world.’
High fashion has become representative of stability in unstable places; that allows you to have a voice in the world stage.
A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair.
