The minute we don't finance the arts, the accountants, attorneys and politicians keep taking the cream of money off the top and… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
Fashion is more about taste than money - you have to understand your body and tailor clothes to your needs; it's all… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
I'm totally formed by my mother's interest in fashion. As a Hungarian immigrant, she couldn't afford clothes. She made all her clothes… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
Fashion matters to the degree that it is, for the sighted person, the first language we speak to each other. We are...… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
Facion goes in cycles but nothing has changed. When it's ridiculous it's more ridiculous than ever, and when it's wonderful it becomes… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, offers the range of subjects that help young designers to arrange the underpinnings… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
There's no way I would have got to see so much of the world, with my humble background, without modelling. We were penniless and hungry for most of my youth. I washed the sheets in the bathtub in my bedroom and hung them out of the window on the clothes line, which in winter was difficult as the sheets would… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share
My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and a hard… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
When you understand how to do that dance, when the photographer says, 'Hold it, do it,' and you know you're getting it right, oh,… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it with, you… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
I understood that synergistic dance between photographer and object - 'muse,' if you will, 'model,' whatever you call us. It's that silent language of… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
I was friends with Salvador Dalí until the day he died. Lucky me. I can't say why. I didn't live to be noticed, I lived to enjoy the excitement of doing right that day, and I knew I was doing it right when they would have me back. That was the thrill for me. I yearned to be validated because… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share
I have had more magazine covers in the last 25 years than I have had in my whole elongated career. [...] Today I am… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
I don't believe in funerals. I believe in celebrating life, and showing people, while they're alive, how much I care about them. And I… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
I was the Kate Moss of my day, atypical of what the public wanted, which was Brigitte Bardot. I was always tall, skinny and… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
A lot of people around me were really staggeringly rich, which I never have been. I walked in between the raindrops of real money,… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
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