Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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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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If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
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Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.
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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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People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.
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My mom read French 'Elle' when I was a little girl, and so, when I was 15 or 16, I said, 'I want to work in fashion.'
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What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?
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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 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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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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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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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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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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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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I think I have character, and that is what people like in me.
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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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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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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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When I don't know what to wear, I wear black lace.
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There are too many 50-year-olds dressing as 20-year-olds.
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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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If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'
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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.