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Daily Inspiration Quote by Adriana Lima

"I was in a fashion show and I had on a strapless top. When I got to the end the top was down"

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Runway glamour loves to sell itself as effortless, but Adriana Lima’s blunt little anecdote punctures that mythology in a single, deadpan slip. “I was in a fashion show… strapless top… the top was down” reads like a crash report delivered with model-perfect composure. The comedy is accidental and that’s why it lands: the industry trades in fantasy and control, yet the body and the garment keep voting for chaos.

The specific intent feels less like confession than demystification. Lima isn’t offering a grand critique; she’s relaying a moment every working model understands as occupational hazard. That plainness matters. By keeping the language simple and unembellished, she lets the absurdity of the situation do the work: a multimillion-dollar spectacle undone by a piece of fabric and gravity.

The subtext is about vulnerability packaged as professionalism. A strapless top failing at the runway’s “end” - the moment designed for peak visibility - exposes how much of fashion is risk management disguised as art. Models are expected to project poise no matter what’s happening to them, including wardrobe malfunctions that can turn them into clickbait in seconds. Her phrasing even blurs agency: “I had on” suggests styling decisions made for her; “the top was down” turns the mishap into something that simply occurred, as inevitable as physics.

Contextually, it’s a reminder that fashion’s power dynamic is built into the clothes themselves: the model carries the consequences of designs that prioritize silhouette over security, while the show rolls on.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Lima, Adriana. (2026, January 17). I was in a fashion show and I had on a strapless top. When I got to the end the top was down. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-in-a-fashion-show-and-i-had-on-a-strapless-46029/

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Lima, Adriana. "I was in a fashion show and I had on a strapless top. When I got to the end the top was down." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-in-a-fashion-show-and-i-had-on-a-strapless-46029/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I was in a fashion show and I had on a strapless top. When I got to the end the top was down." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-in-a-fashion-show-and-i-had-on-a-strapless-46029/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Adriana Lima

Adriana Lima (born June 12, 1981) is a Model from Brazil.

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