The Dress That Changed My Life
Harper's BAZAAR Singapore|January 2018

I was in a car coming home from the airport in 2010 when Diane von Furstenberg called me and said, “Darling, the CFDA has nominated you.”

- Iman
The Dress That Changed My Life

I’m like, “For what? I’m not a designer.” She said, “The Fashion Icon Award. It was unanimous.” And I said, “Well, I’m honoured.” Then automatically I was like, “What the hell am I going to wear?”

I knew I wanted something that would transcend time, that nobody could ever put a date on. I didn’t want a colour, so if you look at a black-and-white picture it could have been 1950. It had to be couture and have a presence, but feel timeless and iconic.

Giambattista [Valli] had sent me a couple of dresses for other events, and beautiful as they were, they took up the entire room. I’ve always told him jokingly, “I’m not Sarah Jessica Parker.” I’m much taller than she is, but somehow she pulls off these huge gowns effortlessly. I don’t like big gowns. I have a Somali body; we’re very small-boned, so things can overwhelm me. And I don’t want to wear something that I’m worried about how to walk in all night.

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この蚘事は Harper's BAZAAR Singapore の January 2018 版に掲茉されおいたす。

7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トラむアルを開始しお、䜕千もの厳遞されたプレミアム ストヌリヌ、9,000 以䞊の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしおください。

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