Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You’re in one minute, out the next.

Banks is describing the volatility of high-fashion gatekeeping—especially designers’ shifting tastes and the industry’s rapid turnover of “it” faces. The line frames her career strategy as a refusal to let external arbiters determine her value: rather than chasing designers’ approval, she sought durability through broader visibility and control (branding, media work, and entrepreneurship). The quote also functions as a caution about prestige economies: being “in” is often temporary, contingent, and not necessarily tied to merit. Its significance lies in articulating a model’s perspective on power imbalance in fashion and the need to build resilience beyond any single season’s favor.