Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?
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Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.
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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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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 love the noise of my wooden clogs on my wooden floor. Dancers wear clogs. They're good for you.
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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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I think I have character, and that is what people like in me.
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I'm not a superhero - I'm a super worker!
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I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.
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I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people.
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Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.
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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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The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.
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My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.
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If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.
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If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
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I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.
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'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.
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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 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'm still like a butterfly going from one job to another job. But it's quite lovely - I hope to keep this freedom, to have fun.
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Makeup can help you capture a moment.
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There are too many 50-year-olds dressing as 20-year-olds.
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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.