I got everything I wanted from my parents: Brooks Brothers sweaters and Spalding saddle shoes.

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• Eileen Ford:

  None of the people I grew up with had identity problems. We all had perfectly marvelous lives.

• Eileen Ford:

  I feel that my ideas of beauty have been given very strong backing by Botticelli and a few others:

• Eileen Ford:

  I live in a wonderful world of make-believe. A world of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. A world of

• Eileen Ford:

  My family believed I could do no wrong. That's probably why I have utter confidence in myself even

• Eileen Ford:

  The horrible thing about being me is that I have a very good eye about what people look like. Even

• Eileen Ford:

  I create a look, and I create a style.

• Eileen Ford:

  I can't add above 10, I can't draw a stick figure, and I'm tone deaf. So I had to be able to do som

• Eileen Ford:

  Grace Kelly was a very commercial model; she had no interest in being a fashion model. None at all.

• Eileen Ford:

  I never worry about fat people worrying about thin people, because slender people bury the dead.

• Eileen Ford:

  I interview about three thousand models yearly, and I must see almost 20 tons of excess avoirdupois