Kelly Cutrone Quotes

If you’re 5′ 6″, just stay home. Don’t pretend you’re 5′ 8″ or 5′ 9″. If you want to be a beauty model, I guess that’s fine, you can do glamour, but you’re not going to do runway. If you’re over 29 – 26, even – I would suggest you work regionally and not try to work nationally.

Gather up your courage like an armful of free clothes at a McQueen sample sale and follow your inner voice wherever it takes you.

Society has a hyper emphasis on thin, and that trend comes from the consumers – it does not come from the fashion industry. The fashion industry needs to make money; that’s what we do. If people said, ‘We want a 300 pound purple person,’ the first industry to do it would be fashion.

You have to be prepared for people to hate you. Average people love to be average, because nobody bothers them.

When you’re following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.

Before turning 32 is an amazing time to do radical things. You figure out who you are while you figure out who you are not.

After all, you can’t truly be happy if you’ve never known pain. You can’t truly feel joy if you’ve never felt heartbreak. You can’t know what it’s like to be filled unless you’ve been empty.

I don’t take it lightly that I brought a life into this world. They’re waiting for you every day, these sweet little angels. You have to have time for them to interact on a daily basis.

I hope that you, too, will choose to have a journey instead of just a life. Actually, I hope it’s a full on expedition.

B*tch: a reflection of people’s lack of creativity & inability to acknowledge & embrace a powerful woman; a woman who won’t comply.

Most fashion models do not look good in bikinis because they’re too thin.

When you believe in something and truly go after it with all you have, amazing things will happen.

I overcame my fears and troubles simply by praying and learning to calm down when scary things were happening – I formed certain mantras which helped me become pro-active vs. reactive, such as :
What’s the problem? What’s the solution?
Time Energy Money
What do I get? What do I give?
Shrink It. Fix it. Grow it.

I don’t have time to write a mom blog, but I’m not against it. I think it’s great when women talk about things. I’m all about female empowerment. There’s a lot of lonely, lost moms out there. Moms need to be encouraged to tell the truth. There’s a lot of glamour mommy stuff. It’s OK to get real.

We see women who go out and want to look like Jennifer Aniston, and they’re wearing an ill-fitting red dress and ugly gold shoes, and they’ve got flat hair and they can’t walk.

People should just express themselves and not worry about trends – try to use fashion like a compass, an indicator, examples of things that you can be. It’s not to be taken so seriously. It’s just clothes.

If we get a girl who is bigger than a 4, she is not going to fit the clothes. Clothes look better on thin people. The fabric hangs better.

I had the most expensive haircut you can get, and I was walking around with my hair in rollers backstage, and my hair still came out looking like I was shot out of a cannon and I had just gotten out of bed.

Do your best and become as successful as you can because the more powerful you become, the smaller the other person gets, right? So it’s like the bigger you are, the better you become, the less power other people have over you. The best thing to do is to always compete with yourself and not to compete with others.

This is an important lesson to remember when you’re having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year. Things will change: you won’t feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.

The hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.

Baby-carrying means your hearts are close together. It’s a very intense and beautiful way to bond with your baby, very intimate. It’s also easier than a stroller.