"I've always gotten along best with artists"
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There is a quietly strategic humility in Jerry Hall saying she’s “always gotten along best with artists.” As a model, Hall spent her early career positioned as the object in other people’s frames: photographed, styled, edited, consumed. Aligning herself with “artists” flips that script. It implies she’s not merely a surface, but someone fluent in the temperaments that make the surface meaningful: obsession, taste, risk, the long hours no one sees. It’s a gentle claim to cultural literacy.
The line also works as a class-coded preference masquerading as personality. “Artists” signals a certain bohemian exemption from the normal rules: unconventional schedules, complicated romances, volatile egos that get reframed as genius. If you’ve lived inside the fashion machine, that world can feel more honest than the corporate one because it admits its hunger upfront. Models are trained to be adaptable, to read rooms, to collaborate without taking up too much space. Artists, at least in the myth, reward that: they want muses, co-conspirators, audiences.
Context matters: Hall’s public life has orbited famous creative men, especially Mick Jagger, and later the Murdoch media empire. The quote quietly emphasizes the part of her story that feels elective rather than inherited or transactional. It’s a preference that also doubles as a defense: if artists are who you “get along” with, then the chaos, the spectacle, even the tabloid drama becomes less scandal and more aesthetic lifestyle choice.
The line also works as a class-coded preference masquerading as personality. “Artists” signals a certain bohemian exemption from the normal rules: unconventional schedules, complicated romances, volatile egos that get reframed as genius. If you’ve lived inside the fashion machine, that world can feel more honest than the corporate one because it admits its hunger upfront. Models are trained to be adaptable, to read rooms, to collaborate without taking up too much space. Artists, at least in the myth, reward that: they want muses, co-conspirators, audiences.
Context matters: Hall’s public life has orbited famous creative men, especially Mick Jagger, and later the Murdoch media empire. The quote quietly emphasizes the part of her story that feels elective rather than inherited or transactional. It’s a preference that also doubles as a defense: if artists are who you “get along” with, then the chaos, the spectacle, even the tabloid drama becomes less scandal and more aesthetic lifestyle choice.
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