Hailey Gates Quotes

Some of us are lucky enough to choose what we wear, and some of us don't have that luxury, but we all are communicating something to the world around us by what we wear, no matter if it's sweatpants or a tuxedo.

- Hailey Gates

High fashion has become representative of stability in unstable places; that allows you to have a voice in the world stage.

- Hailey Gates

I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.

- Hailey Gates

I actually find it a lot easier to interview people I don't agree with because I'm far more curious about how they've arrived at that place.

- Hailey Gates

If you take the fashion out of it, clothing has a lot of information - about how we feel about ourselves, how we'd like to feel about ourselves, and what we'd like to be: If you show up to an interview in sweatpants and a T-shirt, I'm going to deal with you in a really different way.

- Hailey Gates

In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one moment where a woman I was interviewing just sort of burst into tears, and I can usually sort of tell when things are coming on, and in that moment, it was very unexpected.

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My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.

- Hailey Gates

The Congo is so fun. The ideal body type coveted by women in the Congo is this extremely curvaceous body. They're going through a number of extreme measures to get that kind of body form, and one of them is by using bouillon cubes.

- Hailey Gates

Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.

- Hailey Gates

I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.

- Hailey Gates

This idea of 'laicite' has been weaponized, in a way, to discriminate against people, and this idea of who gets to be French is really complicated and interesting.

- Hailey Gates

It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't do myself.

- Hailey Gates

I wrote a play that I directed and I was in, and I paid for the sets and the costumes and to put it up in a theater all through modeling. It really afforded me a lot of creative control in my life.

- Hailey Gates

I was, like, a really embarrassing, precocious child.

- Hailey Gates

I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.

- Hailey Gates

It's wild, how many places of conflict that have fashion weeks. It's becoming some sort of marker for these countries that says, 'We are in conversation with the rest of the world.'

- Hailey Gates

Having long hair has allowed me to enter orthodox or religiously conservative situations with slightly more ease.

- Hailey Gates

I would wear entirely one color: tutus, furry pants. It was totally outrageous. My family was deeply embarrassed to be seen with me.

- Hailey Gates

Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.

- Hailey Gates

I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.

- Hailey Gates

We did a play of 'Frog and Toad' at my elementary school. And I'm not sure if this is part of the book or it was something that we made up on our own, but I auditioned to play the black hole, which somehow makes sense to me.

- Hailey Gates

I have always been very into pagan hairstyles. If I were alive a long time ago, I would probably have been burned at the stake.

- Hailey Gates

In China, I had my body lit on fire. And in Russia, I took a bath in reindeer blood, which apparently had some kind of youth-enhancing elements.

- Hailey Gates

Fashion weeks tend to be places of refuge for outsiders.

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At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis's old Bel Air bachelor pad. It was where he first met the Beatles.

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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.

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I always struggle auditioning, actually, because I'm so obsessed with era-appropriate clothing.

- Hailey Gates

I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.

- Hailey Gates

A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair.

- Hailey Gates

I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this.

- Hailey Gates

The Internet seems to have killed American fashion in the sense that everybody has good style, but they also look vaguely the same.

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Women's bodies have become a real battleground for politics.

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There are a lot of people who don't want things like fashion weeks to happen.

- Hailey Gates

Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.

- Hailey Gates