Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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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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I love if someone invites me to a restaurant, so I don't know if that's a feminist.
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You discover yourself through the research of your work.
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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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I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.
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The first Chanel jacket that I saw - that I knew was Chanel - was on TV. It was on Mrs. Kennedy - the pink one.
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Just because someone is holding a gun doesn't make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who is holding it.
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In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.
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You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
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When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.
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Sometimes, when you go to airport and look at the people, you see the worst looks - but the worst looks can give you more ideas than the best looks.
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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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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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I'm not a superhero - I'm a super worker!
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If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'
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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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You lose attitude when you feel too comfortable, so I prefer to wear clothes that have a certain edge to them.
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What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?
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To me, makeup is fashion and vice versa. What I dress and what I wear always needs to work with my makeup, which is usually the same anyway.
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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 am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.
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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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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 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?