A biography for Cameron Russellhasn’t been written yet.
“I haven't done the profoundly impactful work many TED speakers have.”
“It's going to sound ridiculous, but knowing how to pose, how to maintain a level of engagement and variation for a day of shooting, is actually a skill.”
“I am insecure... because I have to think about what I look like every day.”
“I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that.”
“In 2007, a very inspired New York University Ph.D. student counted all the models on the runway, every single one that was hired, and of the 677 models that were hired, only 27, or less than four per cent, were non-white.”
“I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.”
“Fashion is capitalism, and it will be fixed by what the market demands.”
“Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.”
“The rise of the Internet and the camera phone have started to change what stories are accessible.”
“Image is powerful, but image is also superficial.”
“Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.”
“You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.”
“I was bullied at school.”
“In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.”
“For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.”
“Modelling is an incredible platform.”
“When I first lived in a model apartment... It was two bunk beds to a room, and the bathroom was constantly in use. I was bringing in Lucky Charms cereal, and one day an agent put a stop to that. She said, 'You're making all the girls fat.' They took it off our grocery order. That was the most dramatic thing that happened.”
“Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.”
“Even if I did give a good talk, is what I have to say more important and interesting than what Colin Powell said?”
“Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.”