Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it's my way of thinking. So I love Azzedine Alaia, because I've known him for 30 years, and he's making my dresses most of the time.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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It's interesting to know how much you are worth.
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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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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 am not a celebrity. I work with celebrities, and it is very difficult. When a celebrity wears a dress, it's good for business, so brands fight for the red carpet. Me? I don't like it, because fashion becomes a job about dressing celebrities. And it's a bit boring.
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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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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 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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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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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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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 have a couture body.
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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 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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I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.
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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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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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You discover yourself through the research of your work.
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.