Words matter. These are the best Cameron Russell Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Even if I did give a good talk, is what I have to say more important and interesting than what Colin Powell said?
I’ve never personally been anorexic.
I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.
Lately I’ve been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.
Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.
The barrier to entry, to being a model, is not hard work. You don’t need a degree. You don’t need to win an award. It’s just about how you look.
Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.
Image is powerful, but image is also superficial.
Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
The real way I became a model is I won a genetic lottery, and I became the recipient of a legacy.
If you are ever wondering, ‘If I have thinner thighs and shinier hair will I be happier?’ you just need to meet a group of models because they have the thinnest thighs and the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes and they’re the most physically insecure women on the planet.
I do have too many eight-inch heels which I never get to wear.
Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go.
The rise of the Internet and the camera phone have started to change what stories are accessible.
If someone has the opportunity to become a model, I would say, ‘Do it.’
At the Big Bad Lab, we build participatory art and media platforms for causes, communities and organizations we care about.
Like many young people, I believe I have potential to make a positive impact in the world.
One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.
Modelling is an incredible platform.
A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.
I don’t think fashion is evil.
My first day of high school, I wore brown boys’ corduroys that my mom had sewn Sesame Street elastic into – they were my coolest pants – and a lime green Patagonia fleece that my mom found at Goodwill. I loved fleece.
It’s going to sound ridiculous, but knowing how to pose, how to maintain a level of engagement and variation for a day of shooting, is actually a skill.
Fashion is capitalism, and it will be fixed by what the market demands.
If I ever had needed to put together a CV, it would be quite short. Like many young people, I’d highlight my desire to work hard.
I’m a dork!
For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics.
Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that’s because we’re more valuable objects and ornaments.
Saying you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It’s awesome, and it’s out of your control, and it’s not a career path.
Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.
I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I’ll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I’ll wear them everyday for a week!
I am insecure… because I have to think about what I look like every day.
Hard work is not why I have been successful as a model.
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.
I was bullied at school.
