Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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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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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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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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'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
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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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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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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 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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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'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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I think I have character, and that is what people like in me.
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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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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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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 am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.
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When I don't know what to wear, I wear black lace.
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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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My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.
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I'm not a superhero - I'm a super worker!
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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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'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.