I’ve been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I’m not going to work against my people. They’ve suffered enough. Naomi Campbell Read Quote
I started this charity, Fashion for Relief, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina happened. New Orleans was actually the first place I visited in the United States. It was one of my first big jobs, a shoot for British ‘Elle.’ It was April 14, 1986. Naomi Campbell Read Quote
I’ve always been very shy of doing television. I’ve always said ‘no.’ Not to be disrespectful to anyone – I didn’t want to say ‘yes’ and then let people down. Naomi Campbell Read Quote
I’m not angry. And I don’t like the thing of the ‘angry black woman,’ either. Naomi Campbell Read Quote
I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school. Naomi Campbell Read Quote
When I started out modeling, there weren’t casting directors and there weren’t stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then. Naomi Campbell Read Quote
When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn’t know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma – the real divas of the runway – ‘Can you show me?’ I’ve never been afraid to ask for help. Naomi Campbell Read Quote