Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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When you have the baby, there is no BlackBerry, no computer; you just have the baby on your stomach, and your heart is beating the same time as the baby's. It's very nice.
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I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.
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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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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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'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
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Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.
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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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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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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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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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I love the noise of my wooden clogs on my wooden floor. Dancers wear clogs. They're good for you.
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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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To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.
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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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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'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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My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.
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When I don't know what to wear, I wear black lace.
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I think I have character, and that is what people like in me.
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'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.
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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.
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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.