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 more wonderful than ever because now more people think: "I dress the body I have, not I have… — 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… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
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
![“I have had more magazine covers in the last 25 years than I have had in my whole elongated career. [...] Today I am in a territory that business considers unmarketable: age and white hair. Slowly, however, I started to own that territory little by little because I stood up for age.” quote by Carmen Dell'Orefice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/481/carmen-dell-orefice-14701_age_i-have-had-more-magazine-covers-in-the-l_338549.jpg)
