Carmen Kass Quotes

Estonia, Model
September 14, 1978

Carmen Kass (born 14 September 1978) is an Estonian model and former political candidate. Considered a supermodel within the fashion industry, she has worked as the face of Versace, Yves Saint Laurent, Gucci, Valentino, Chanel, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Dior, Céline, Givenchy, and, for ten consecutive years, Michael Kors. In the year 2002, she was estimated to have been the second-highest-paid model in the world.

Also known as Politician

We feel free. We're independent. People can be openly proud of being Estonian. I have a lot of belief in Estonia.

Carmen Kass
- People
- Free
- Proud
I get paid to work; I don't pay to work.

Carmen Kass
- Work

You know what I always dreamed of? That with the greenhouse effect, one day Estonia can be what L.A. is right now. I always thought when the end of the world comes, I want to be in Estonia. I think then I'd survive.

Carmen Kass
- World
I hope one day when I say I'm from Estonia, people don't say: 'What? Where's that?'

Carmen Kass
- People
- Hope
It's not really like you have a thing like a supermodel anymore. It's more of a word than a real existence. I think, also, looking at it from a designer's point of view, at one point maybe they felt the stars took too much attention away from the clothes.

Carmen Kass
- Real
- Attention
I don't think Estonians ever really hated Russians. It was more, 'Leave us alone.' We can't change what is past. We can't blame them for what their parents have done. We never hated them. They didn't destroy us that bad.

Carmen Kass
- Done
- Bad
- Parents
I don't think just being skinny means necessarily anorexic.

Carmen Kass
I have a figure, and there aren't many girls out there right now who have that.

Carmen Kass

Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.

Carmen Kass
- Money
- Ambition