Grace on Vogue, Anna, dieting & Kimye….#bestquotes.
American Vogue’s outspoken creative director chats to Vanessa Friedman at the Financial Times and reveals it was her idea to shoot Kim and Kanye …
(Picture above from WSJ).
• “People come up to me and say, ‘Oh, I love you!’ It’s kind of wonderful; it really cheers you up if you are having a bad day. Or even a good day.” On being recognised in the street after The September Issue documentary.
• “I got fat.” how she ended up with her signature look of dark trousers and white shirt …“my idea of skinny and the general public’s idea of skinny is probably slightly different”.
• “ That’s a very big can of worms: We [Vogue] simply don’t shoot very skinny girls. But, to a certain extent, youth and skinny go hand in hand – I was pretty skinny when I was 16. And the constant demand for more, with more shows and more models, means that the supply of girls necessarily goes past maybe what one would want.” On the current discussion over whether the fashion world promotes unrealistic body images.
• “One of the things I have learnt since the movie is that I have to be very careful about what I say, because it all rebounds on Vogue: Maybe I should not have said that.” See above (Still, she did say it).
• “Clothes that are badly made. I refuse. What I really admire is when something is beautifully made.” on what she won’t shoot.
• “There was a wedding story to be done. And Anna probably had them in mind, because she had been seeing a lot of Kanye, so she said, ‘Maybe we should shoot it on lookalikes.’ And I thought, ‘Why not just do it on the real thing? This is Vogue.’” On the Kimye cover.
• “And I do think KK represents this moment in our culture. I’m fascinated by her, in the same way I’m fascinated by the people I see on the street or the subway.”
• “It was fun. [Kim] is very professional. And the baby [the couple’s daughter, North] is very well-behaved. We did millions of pictures and she did not cry once. I got quite upset we did not have the baby on the cover”.( Drugged baby? or did North just take a shallow dive in the gene pool?)
• “I knew going in it would be controversial – I got an envelope from Texas, with the cover ripped up into little pieces inside – but the designers all sent me flowers, so I guess they were happy.” ( FiFi : oh, I wanted to rip up that cover: what a great idea!)
• “That’s one of those questions I’ll get in trouble about no matter what I say. I’ll probably be fired. I should just shut up now.” On what she thinks about the print-digital divide (she has a mobile phone but doesn’t use email or computers).
Read more of the fascinating interview here.
