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" This idea of 'laicite' has been weaponized, in a way, to discriminate against people, and this idea of who gets to be French is really complicated and interesting. "

Hailey Gates

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" I wrote a play that I directed and I was in, and I paid for the sets and the costumes and to put it up in a theater all through modeling. It really afforded me a lot of creative control in my life. "

Hailey Gates

Control

" Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something. "

" I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California. "

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" I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us. "

" Fashion weeks tend to be places of refuge for outsiders. "

" I would wear entirely one color: tutus, furry pants. It was totally outrageous. My family was deeply embarrassed to be seen with me. "

" It's wild, how many places of conflict that have fashion weeks. It's becoming some sort of marker for these countries that says, 'We are in conversation with the rest of the world.' "

" Women's bodies have become a real battleground for politics. "

" There are a lot of people who don't want things like fashion weeks to happen. "

Hailey Gates

Want

Happen

" I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants. "

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" We did a play of 'Frog and Toad' at my elementary school. And I'm not sure if this is part of the book or it was something that we made up on our own, but I auditioned to play the black hole, which somehow makes sense to me. "

Hailey Gates

School

Book

" A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair. "

" Having long hair has allowed me to enter orthodox or religiously conservative situations with slightly more ease. "

" I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in. "