Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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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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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 made a big family when I was working at 'Vogue' for ten years, and I'm still friends with a lot of them.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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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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'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
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When you're editor-in-chief of a big magazine, you cannot be a cover girl for MAC; you cannot be the face of Givenchy - of course you can't; it's doesn't go with the job.
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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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I love the noise of my wooden clogs on my wooden floor. Dancers wear clogs. They're good for you.
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There are too many 50-year-olds dressing as 20-year-olds.
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I'm a very spontaneous person, for the bad and the good.
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I am very surprised by someone like Alexander Wang. I am amazed how he is good with fashion, with business, with public relations himself, with an attitude in his clothes that is spoken immediately.
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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 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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'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
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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 don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.
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London Fashion Week isn't the most organised, but I don't mind that. It's such an exciting place - it's small and cool.
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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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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.
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We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come across is perhaps the length of a skirt.
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I am afraid of blood, but for some reason often I put blood in my photos... I don't know why.
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I actually love the 'rappers look,' with the saggy pants and oversized clothes. It's very deliberate.