Too often, I judge my worth by how others see me. It’s a social thing, not unique to women. I think I could be happier if I was different. I wish I was either [choose one] taller, older, younger, thinner, prettier, more athletic; I want longer hair, shorter hair, shinier hair, highlights, boobs, better complexion, smaller feet, longer fingers. I wish I didn’t wear glasses. I eat well and exercise regularly. I don’t rest enough. Do you like yourself?

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
Quotation from Oscar Wilde

It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Another quotation from Oscar Wilde

Anniversaire heureux, Northie!

People who think they don’t photograph well have nobody to blame other than themselves. There is an art to looking good in front of the camera. That is why models are told to practice their poses in front of a mirror. Practice makes perfect.

The queen was the most beautiful woman in all the land, and very proud of her beauty. She had a mirror, which she stood in front of every morning, and asked:
Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who in this land is fairest of all?
And the mirror always said:
You, my queen, are fairest of all.
And then she knew for certain that no one in the world was more beautiful than she.
Quotation from Wilhelm Grimm, Little Snow White

When you see a taggy daggy (shirt tag sticking up), do you stop strangers on the street and tell them?

I base most of my fashion sense on what doesn’t itch.
Quotation from Gilda Radner

Americans have many clever sayings: Put your shoulder to the wheel; Carry an albatross around your neck; Eat your heart out. It must sound very strange to non-native speakers. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, over three million households are linguistically isolated in America.

My career never suffered from my not being skinny. I never did catwalk work because I was always too big. I couldn’t get the clothes over my hips.
Quotation from Heidi Klum

I’m no model lady. A model’s just an imitation of the real thing.
Quotation from Mae West

In Costa Rica, many store mannequins have impossibly big boobs, as compared to mannequins in the United States, which are impossibly thin. It’s intriguing what different cultures consider “ideal” and seductive.

Strange and Beautiful Tattoos (1dak.com) Do you find ink sexy?
Pierced Pink and a beautiful touch of plastic destruction (Flickr.com)

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” That is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Poem by John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn

Really good magazines know how to edit, right?
In fact, I prefer they embellish, polish and make
me sound brilliant. Like I really am. Sometimes.

Runway Magazine, August 2008 (I’ll be in the September issue)

Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its apotheosis. A ritualized gathering of connoiseurs and the spoilt at a spotlit parade of snazzy pulchritude, it is an industrialized version of the pagan festivals of renewal.
Quotation from Stephen Bayley, Fashion: Being and Dressing

Next Sunday, we will be having a Mother’s Day Fashion Show at the Shardakourian Confederation Meditation Gardens in Bun Yip. Designers Omen, Talisman, Ivalde, Nocturnal Threads, Nordic Nymph and others will be showing their latest and best creations. Please join us for this very special Mother’s Day event.

May 13, 2007 at 2PM SLT