Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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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'm a very spontaneous person, for the bad and the good.
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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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It's very difficult for designers today. How can someone produce so many shows? Now the minimum is four a year.
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What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?
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I never like to wear too much makeup, and sometimes the best makeup is when it's not too perfect. I like to sometimes apply my makeup with my fingers.
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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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It's interesting to know how much you are worth.
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I don't have a big appetite. I don't eat a lot, to be honest - never. I'm a bit like a little bird, picking all day long, but I'm not getting pasta or getting all those things, you know?
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I don't think because you have money you have taste... Education and money - this is quite rare. No?
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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.
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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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My name has become a brand - it could be make-up, clothing, perfume.
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Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.
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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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Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.
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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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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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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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Either you are a good Virgo or a crazy Virgo! The good Virgo side of me is educating and raising the children - being there for them.
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We have the sort of beautiful older woman here in Paris. People like Loulou de la Falaise and Betty Catroux, all these beautiful looking women over 60... So there is culture here in France that even if you are older, you can stay beautiful.