Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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As you get older, you see life is very short, so you have to appreciate more and more and to enjoy it.
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My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.
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To be a good model, you have to be very smart.
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Makeup can help you capture a moment.
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For me, fashion is not about reality.
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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 like to surprise people. I try to take risks.
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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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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.
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The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.
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I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.
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If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a dark vision.
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I am Parisian. I don't love the French.
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I have good legs, so I prefer my skirt lengths and my high heels. It's like my uniform.
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If I'm doing something in fashion, I will try to respect the 'laws' of the business, but I will try to keep my integrity and my respect for the designers and for my readers.
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I love the free spirit in London.
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It's interesting to know how much you are worth.
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I think that Americans, they love comfort more than Europeans. Americans created the T-shirt, the sweat pants, and they create the best sporting shoes.
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It's always fun when people ask you for advice.
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Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.
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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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There are a lot of good men's magazines. In England, you have 'Arena Homme+' and 'Another Man;' and in France we have 'L'Officiel Hommes.' But all are looking similar.
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When you go to a show, Americans in New York are very proper, much more so than the French. Everything is perfect. Their hair, the nails, everything. The look. Everything is perfection.
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You know it's very important, the role of a mother... I don't know, but it's feminism to me to love your kids.