Faith & Spirit Quote by Patricia Velasquez

It lands like a tossed-off aside, but the gratitude is doing heavy lifting. Patricia Velasquez isn’t praising fashion so much as revealing the scaffolding that keeps celebrity afloat: clothes are not just fabric, they’re access. “Thank God” frames designer lending as salvation, a small benediction for a system where public appearance is professional currency and “looking expensive” is often a prerequisite for being taken seriously.

The bluntness of “I can get them” is the tell. It implies a before-and-after: there was a moment when she couldn’t, when the doors stayed shut, when the red carpet required personal capital she didn’t have. In that light, the line reads less like diva entitlement and more like relief at having crossed an invisible threshold into the economy of prestige. Designers don’t simply dress you; they certify you.

There’s also a sly exposure of celebrity labor. We talk about acting as the job, but this quote admits the other job: maintaining an image machine that runs on borrowed luxury, publicist choreography, and the quiet expectation that women show up flawlessly styled, every time. Velasquez’s thanks nods to how precarious that expectation can feel, especially for someone navigating global beauty standards and industry gatekeeping.

The sentence works because it’s honest in the way people are rarely allowed to be about glamour: it’s logistical, it’s transactional, and it still carries emotional weight. In eight words, it punctures the fantasy while admitting she needs it.