I like Stella [McCartney] a lot - she's a very open and warm person. I don't particularly want to know about her background. Nan Goldin More Quotes by Nan Goldin More Quotes From Nan Goldin The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints. Nan Goldin saint church art In '83 I started travelling round Europe with my slide show. It wasn't until I moved to Europe and got accepted in a big way in Berlin in the '90s that I got acceptance by the big art world in New York. I didn't really get to be known, or in the market, til '93 in New York. Nan Goldin acceptance new-york art In Paris now, when I walk into stores and the shopgirls literally say to me every time, "We don't have anything in your size". Nan Goldin stores size paris One of my assistants, a British man, says I should find a platform for [cosmetic industry]. Meanwhile I wear make-up. Nan Goldin cosmetics assistants men I have no ambivalence about myself wearing make-up or designer clothes but I have an enormous ambivalence about what the fashion world has done to women. Nan Goldin clothes fashion done I used to live with Teri Toye in the '80s - a really gorgeous transsexual. She won Girl of the Year in 1986 [I think] as a Chanel model and she introduced this whole way of slinky, slow-motion modeling. It was amazing that the girl of the year was actually born male. Nan Goldin girl years thinking One of the fashion things I ever did was for Helmut Lang for Visionaire magazine and I used people from all genders. People from the age of 18 - like James King - to people like my friend Sharon [Stone] who's about 50 or older. People of all different shapes and literally all different genders and my boyfriend at the time and his daughter who was 11. Nan Goldin fashion daughter kings I also photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either. Nan Goldin maggie She has that kind of baby face, a very young face. So I was interested in working with Kate [Moss]. Nan Goldin moss faces baby I also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped. Nan Goldin mets The only time this happened to me before was in Jil Sander in Berlin where they said, "We have nothing that will fit you." I said, "Yes, you do." And I found something great. This happens to me in Paris again and again and again. They don't carry anything over size 40 which is nothing, because I wear a size 42 or 44 but that's hard to find in Paris among the designer clothes. All stores are like that. Nan Goldin designer-clothes berlin paris I shot for French and British Vogue. The British Vogue one featured clothes by Chloe and was shot at Highgate and the John Soane Museum. It came out much better in my opinion. I only did one day and was working with my own make-up and hair people and a model who I've known for years. Nan Goldin clothes hair museums I'm very flattered when people I respect like my work. It's like a dream of a little kid when somebody I idolised likes my work. Nan Goldin dream kids people I don't think of Maria Schneider like idol anymore, because I worshipped her when I was young. Nan Goldin idols young thinking I don't know if Yves St Laurent likes my work but Pierre Bergé does. Nan Goldin likes knows doe Stella McCartney is [my] big fan. Nan Goldin stella bigs fans I never courted that but it's nice when it's people you respect and they respect your work. It's thrilling. Nan Goldin working-it nice people At the same time as the UK Vogue one, I did a shoot that took about 40 days of friends and people I admired in Paris, for French Vogue. This is how I met Maria Schneider in June and which began our friendship. Nan Goldin paris june people In America, more than half the population are overweight. It's not healthy and I'm not proud of that but I don't hate having a woman's body. Nan Goldin healthy hate america I'm not ashamed of my body and you know everything in the fashion world, if I was vulnerable to it, could drive me crazy. I think it produces so much self-hatred. Nan Goldin fashion crazy thinking
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