Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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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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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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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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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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You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
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If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.
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I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.
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There are too many 50-year-olds dressing as 20-year-olds.
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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You discover yourself through the research of your work.
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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 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 actually love the 'rappers look,' with the saggy pants and oversized clothes. It's very deliberate.
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I'm not a superhero - I'm a super worker!
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My name has become a brand - it could be make-up, clothing, perfume.
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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 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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What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?
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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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When I don't know what to wear, I wear black lace.
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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 don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.
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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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To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.