Edie Campbell

“I wear clothes and sell products and ideas.”

“What I like about Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium is that it's an understated scent that's somehow familiar.”

“I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.”

“You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.”

“It's amazing to be able to work with people right at the top of whatever they do... inspiring photographers and stylists with very interesting visual language. The more I do it, the more I enjoy it.”

“There's a thing in the U.K., particularly in London, where it's kind of the idea of subculture and counterculture and the outside and the idea that it's great to be a freak, and the freak always wins. So I think English girls are a lot less scared of being the freak or looking like an idiot.”

“To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.”

“When I was 17, I used to really think about what I wore every day.”

“My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for.”

“I like wearing things that are a bit off but not in a ridiculous 'I'm wearing a huge hat' kind of way. More a socks with sandals way.”

“If I wasn't modelling, I'd probably be an intern somewhere, working for someone who interned the year before me.”

“I think there is something to be said for not feeling like just because you're a model you have to be dressed up, look amazing, go to every party, and be smiling all the time.”

“I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick.”

“The more I mistreat my hair, the stronger it grows back. I think it must be determined to survive.”

“Sometimes I wake up and think, 'I want to look like Sherlock Holmes today,' and other times I want to look like a witch from 'Macbeth.'”

“I have a really great show jacket from Lavalliere that's really well made, and I have a great pair of Gucci jodhpurs, which is hilarious.”

“People need to take a breath and remember that it's only fashion. Relax. No one's going to die.”

“I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.”

“I just think that the Victoria's Secret girl values herself by the way she looks. And that might be linked with being healthy, but that's all it is, and it sets a negative example to other people.”

“You can't really plan for how that training session or competition is going to go. You have to see what your horse is giving you to work with, and then you tailor all your training around that.”