Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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A magazine is not just one person. And a fashion shoot is the same!
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I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.
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Thinking differently is my strength.
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I have a couture body.
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Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
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I am not a celebrity. I work with celebrities, and it is very difficult. When a celebrity wears a dress, it's good for business, so brands fight for the red carpet. Me? I don't like it, because fashion becomes a job about dressing celebrities. And it's a bit boring.
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You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
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'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
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Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.
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What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?
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If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.
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I think that each woman, whatever age, needs to recognize something good in her body. Someone has beautiful legs, someone has beautiful hair, someone else has beautiful decolletage or a beautiful waist or beautiful hands. Everyone has something great.
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I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.
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You discover yourself through the research of your work.
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My mom read French 'Elle' when I was a little girl, and so, when I was 15 or 16, I said, 'I want to work in fashion.'