Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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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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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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I actually love the 'rappers look,' with the saggy pants and oversized clothes. It's very deliberate.
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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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'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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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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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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You discover yourself through the research of your work.
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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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When I don't know what to wear, I wear black lace.
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If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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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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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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I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.
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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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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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Fashion is a completely international business.
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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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You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
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The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.