Eileen Ford Quotes

Eileen Ford

Profession : Businesswoman

Birth : March 25, 1922

Most models are emotionally abandoned. They need me. I'm their mother.

Eileen Ford

Grace Kelly was a very commercial model; she had no interest in being a fashion model. None at all.

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The horrible thing about being me is that I have a very good eye about what people look like. Even me.

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American women mean a great deal to me. They're such lost souls, particularly the women of my generation. And women need so much help. They never have anyone to turn to. I help them understand how they can look better, how to do this, do that, get a job. And they're very trusting. Like little lost kids.

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I got everything I wanted from my parents: Brooks Brothers sweaters and Spalding saddle shoes.

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Most of our models have just walked in off the streets, although I also find them on countless trips to Europe - particularly Scandinavia. I operate by instinct. It's a process I cannot explain, but the prettiest girl on the block is not always the best model.

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I'm afraid to go to sleep; I don't like to lose control of myself. I don't like chauffeurs, either. I like to be in charge of my own destiny.

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I really prefer light-eyed models, They photograph more easily. Of course, I come from a light-eyed background, so maybe that influenced my taste.

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I had a nice, pert nose but a plain round face and a mop of curly brown hair. That was not the photograph of a successful model.

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None of the people I grew up with had identity problems. We all had perfectly marvelous lives.

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I feel that my ideas of beauty have been given very strong backing by Botticelli and a few others: Slender hands, long neck, long limbs - look at Nefertiti. She was very teensy-weensy with a long neck and wide-spaced eyes.

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I live in a wonderful world of make-believe. A world of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. A world of Winnie the Pooh and Edward Bear. Things like that. Wonderful things. Funny things.

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My family believed I could do no wrong. That's probably why I have utter confidence in myself even when I shouldn't have.

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I create a look, and I create a style.

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I never worry about fat people worrying about thin people, because slender people bury the dead.

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I interview about three thousand models yearly, and I must see almost 20 tons of excess avoirdupois annually.

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Our business was built on trust.

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Models are a business, and they have to treat themselves as a business, which means they have to take care of themselves and give up all the young joys.

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We couldn't afford to move, so we decided to start up a model agency.

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You never know when or where you will find the next new model, but you can bet someone from Ford Models will be looking.

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