“I feel like I have a responsibility to my community and other young girls to help redefine what it looks like to be a woman. I don’t believe in men’s wear or women’s wear, I just like what I like. And I think we should just be respected for being an individual… I’ve been in Vogue, now, and different publications, which is cool, because I think that it just shows a different perspective of how women can dress.”
Janelle Monae
“I’m tired of the trends going from boho chic to rock and roll, boho chic to rock and roll, then hippie chic to punk chic … I love music, but I’m just tired of this superficial rock-and-roll thing in fashion. I think being transgressive today is being classical. To pretend to dress as a punk and take cocaine and have sex orgies has just become common now — there’s nothing transgressive about that. The fashion pages, like Purple magazine, are just a joke.”
Christophe Lemaire, The Cut
“Yes, we’ll offer XS, but how about XXXL? Some of the most powerful, influential, fantastic, sexy men I know come in XXXL sizes. They are larger than life!”
Natalie Massenet on Mrporter.com
“Steven Meisel shot me for British Vogue in 1994. Then he asked me to go and shoot the Versace campaign. I thought it was going to be me and a few other grungy girls – instead I found myself with Linda Evangelista. Then I went to Milan for the Versace show. Gianni Versace stopped the music mid-rehearsal and said, ‘Who is that?’ They cancelled me immediately.”
Stella Tennant, Vogue
