Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
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I'm not a superhero - I'm a super worker!
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I have a couture body.
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You discover yourself through the research of your work.
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I love if someone invites me to a restaurant, so I don't know if that's a feminist.
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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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'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
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I actually love the 'rappers look,' with the saggy pants and oversized clothes. It's very deliberate.
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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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If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.
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If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'
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I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.
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You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
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When I don't know what to wear, I wear black lace.
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You can be covered and be very sexy. It's not what you show; it's what you have in mind, the way you cross your legs, the way you talk to people.
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Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.
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I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.
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Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a stylist. They are two very different jobs.
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Just because someone is holding a gun doesn't make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who is holding it.
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My name has become a brand - it could be make-up, clothing, perfume.
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The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.