Sempre polêmica, a supermodelo Naomi Campbell foi soltou o verbo para a revista Interview. Eis alguns trechos marcantes:
"Eu cometo muitos erros. Muitos erros. Então fico nervosa quando as pessoas falam algo sobre eu ser um exemplo, porque eu não sei se eu tenho sido um grande exemplo. Eu não acho que tenha sido um exemplo em alguns aspectos da minha vida."
"Já aconteceu de certos estilistas não terem usado modelos de cor nos seus desfiles. Christy (Turlington) e Linda (Evangelista) disse a eles: 'Se você não chamar a Naomi, pode nos esquecer.' Meus amigos e colegas me defendem. Isso não acontece na moda."
"Nenhuma de nós liga para essa denominação 'supermodelo'... Mas o que nós gostávamos mesmo era de estar juntas... Tinhamos nossos quartos uns perto dos outros - parecia um dormitório em pleno tour."
"Olha, eu sou controversa. Mas não como se as pessoas não me conhecessem... Se elas queriam trabalhar comigo, jóia. Mas se não quiserem, ótimo também."
"Senti que eu era quem estava sendo julgada. Vi a coisa toda se tornar um circo mediático. Aquilo não era meu julgamento. Era sim dele. Mas todos associaram aquilo com a minha imagem." (Ela foi testemunha no julgamento do ex-presidente da Libéria Charles Taylor. Ele é acusado de vender diamantes para comprar armamentos que municiaram um grupo rebelde de Serra Leoa, que lutou em uma sangrenta guerra civil. Naomi foi questionada sobre um incidente envolvendo Taylor, que teria lhe presenteado com diamantes depois de um jantar com Nelson Mandela em 1997. Ela disse que não sabia quem lhe mandou as pedras, quais ela chamou de 'pedrinhas feias e sujas')
"Eu não vou mergulhar em auto-piedade e deixar de viver a minha vida. Sempre haverão momentos dificeis para todos, não importa qual profissão você tenha. Você tem é que continuar trabalhando e não desistir."
Always controversial, the supermodel Naomi Campbell spoke to Interview Magazine. Check out the highlights:
"I make many mistakes. Many mistakes. So I always get nervous when people speak about something that sounds like a role model, because I don’t know if I’ve been a great role model myself. I don’t think I have in certain aspects of my life."
"There were certain designers who hadn’t used models of color in their shows, and Christy (Turlington) and Linda (Evangelista) said to them, ‘If you don’t take Naomi, then you don’t get us.’ My friends and comrades stuck up for me. That doesn’t happen in fashion."
"None of us actually cared about this word supermodel. . . But what we did like was being together. . . We would all have our rooms next to one another—it was like a dorm on tour."
"Look, I’m controversial. It’s not that people don't know who I am. . .if people want to work with me. If they don't, they don't."
"I felt like I was on trial myself (at The Hague). I just saw the whole thing become like a complete media circus. This was not my trial. This was his trial. But anyone looking at it would think it was about me." ([Taylor is accused of selling diamonds for arms in his backing of a Sierra Leone rebel group who were fighting in that country’s long-running and very bloody civil war—hence the term blood diamond. Campbell was questioned about an alleged incident involving Taylor sending her rough diamonds following their meeting at a dinner hosted by Nelson Mandela in 1997. Campbell has denied knowing who sent her the unidentified stones, which she referred to as “dirty looking pebbles.”)
"I felt like I was on trial myself (at The Hague). I just saw the whole thing become like a complete media circus. This was not my trial. This was his trial. But anyone looking at it would think it was about me." ([Taylor is accused of selling diamonds for arms in his backing of a Sierra Leone rebel group who were fighting in that country’s long-running and very bloody civil war—hence the term blood diamond. Campbell was questioned about an alleged incident involving Taylor sending her rough diamonds following their meeting at a dinner hosted by Nelson Mandela in 1997. Campbell has denied knowing who sent her the unidentified stones, which she referred to as “dirty looking pebbles.”)
"I’m not going to wallow in self-pity and not live my life. There are always going to be some falls in life for everybody, no matter what career you have. You have to roll with the punches and keep going."
Fotógrafos/Shot by: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott
Estilista/Stylist: Karl Templer
Estilista/Stylist: Karl Templer