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" People look the best when they feel the most comfortable, so I buy 10 of the same thing if I really like it. "
Petra Collins
Feel
Best
Comfortable
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" My mind is changing all the time. I can't live in a space that has a fixed aesthetic. I just need a blank slate when I come home. "
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Time
Space
" I keep this Hungarian wooden candlestick on the top of my refrigerator along with all my other candles. It's big and ugly, especially next to all my pretty candles, and it doesn't really make sense to have in my apartment. "
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Sense
Top
" I'm used to being told by society that I must regulate my body to fit the norm. I'm used to the fact that images of unaltered women are seen as unacceptable. "
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Body
Fact
" When I do an editorial or when I do a campaign, I bring that lens to every space. "
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Space
Editorial
" I always had this feeling, what I wanted to do. I was trying to work out myself, my frustrations, my body. I couldn't really pinpoint. I started taking photos of my sister and her friends. I was 15, exploring what it meant to be a 15-year-old girl. "
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Girl
Work
" As much as I preach self-love, it's so hard for me to love myself. It's really hard, and it's just about building a good network of people and, in this case, a good network of artists. Trying to live your ideals as best as you can. "
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Love
Good
Live
" The selfie is revolutionary to me. It is, I think, the only point in history where masses of young girls and women have been able to control, create, and publish images of themselves. "
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Women
Control
History
" I'm definitely a Sagittarius. I'm such a fire sign. "
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Sign
Fire
Definitely
" When I was growing up, my parents would apologize when we didn't have enough money for something. I'd always tell them that it was O.K. and that I had learned to work hard because of them. "
Petra Collins
Parents
Money
Enough
" Social media has been such a big important thing for young artists and minorities because it's a community to get noticed. It's having an audience that was never there before. "
Petra Collins
Community
Young
Social Media
" A good jean that fits someone's butt right is just amazing. It's just classic. "
Petra Collins
Someone
Right
Amazing
" I know having a social media profile removed is a 21st century privileged problem - but it is the way a lot of us live. These profiles mimic our physical selves and a lot of the time are even more important. They are ways to connect with an audience, to start discussion, and to create change. "
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Social Media
Media
Change
" Curating, in the modern sense, is something I gravitate to. Taking different ideas from a bunch of different places and putting them into one place or space, a story that makes sense or a new idea. Everything is remixed and taken from other things to make something new. "
Petra Collins
Place
New
Places
" I'm used to seeing women being degraded, slut shamed, harassed for what they look like. Even the most powerful women in the world are measured by their appearance and constantly ridiculed for it. "
Petra Collins
Powerful
Women
World
" Success doesn't happen overnight. "
Petra Collins
Happen
Success
Overnight
" I think the gender norms of emotion are horrendous. Being masculine means showing zero emotions, but having the choice to be angry or depressed. Being female means you are one dimensional - if you show more than that, you are a psycho, hysterical, or historically, a witch. "
Petra Collins
You
More
Angry
" With social media and all the new technology, there's just more interfaces around and reminders to constantly be working on our body. "
Petra Collins
Body
Technology
Social Media
" How girls perceive themselves is interesting, and how they act when they're looking in the mirror. "
Petra Collins
Looking
Act
How
" It's hard for every girl to accept their body. This is something that I try to work on every day to set a good example. "
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Work
Body
Day
" The selfie is a powerful tool, but it can also be dangerous, and I am fascinated with the process of it because there is a level of self-monitoring. "
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Tool
Dangerous
I Am
" When a woman is anything but pleasant, she is labeled as whiny, hysterical, etc. "
Petra Collins
Woman
Anything
She
" Art was - and is - my biggest outlet. I'd probably die if I didn't do it. "
Petra Collins
Art
Biggest
Die
" It's just so humanizing to see someone be real. "
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Real
Someone
Be Real
" Just like any other girl, I felt pressure to look a certain way. Act a certain way. "
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Like
Way
Just
" I really don't believe in the word 'selling out.' "
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Selling
Out
Believe
" My favorite place to go is Zabriskie Point in Death Valley. If you see it at sunrise and sunset, it's like you're on Mars. "
Petra Collins
Place
Sunrise
See
" I came to New York with no money and just one suitcase. I had my family's emotional support, but they weren't able to help me financially. "
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Money
Help
New York
" My mother struggled immensely with mental illness, and so did I. She grew up bipolar, but it was never diagnosed nor recognized. It was shrugged off like a 'symptom' of being female - of her being weak. I also experienced this growing up: I felt that the great pain I experienced was a dramatisation. "
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Mother
She
Pain
" When you see stories about women that aren't being told by women, it can make you feel like you don't exist. "
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Women
Like
Feel
" I wish I didn't think about what my body looks like. It can be done - it's just a long process. "
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Done
Wish
Think