There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies.
I said to my mother, 'When you see my name in 'Vogue,' I will have arrived.'
To be in 'Vogue' has to mean something. It's an endorsement. It's a validation.
When I left French 'Vogue,' New York welcomed me with a big, big hug.
Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.
'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
You can't put yourself into competition with a magazine like 'Vogue.' You have to create something new, something different.
I think one of the best jobs in the universe must be being the editor of 'The New Yorker', but there are a number of magazines that I'd be excited to be the editor of. They would be 'Wired', 'The New Yorker' and probably, 'Vogue'.
'Vogue' has the power to make and break - whether it's fashion trends, designers, models, and yes, even industry practices.