Beauty’s Paths

“Working off your looks makes you pretty much the opposite of self-confident. Still, I don’t think any 15-year-old girl will turn down the chance to be called beautiful. You don’t realize at that point that you are also going to be called ugly.”
 — The Times talks to the wonderful Paulina Porizkova, among others, in its piece on Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ ‘About Face: Supermodels Then and Now,’ a documentary about beauty, aging, and the fashion world. It airs on HBO this coming Monday, July 30, at 9 p.m.