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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Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't.
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Makeup can help you capture a moment.
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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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I'm still like a butterfly going from one job to another job. But it's quite lovely - I hope to keep this freedom, to have fun.
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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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There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different.
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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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The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.
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I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.
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I'm a very spontaneous person, for the bad and the good.
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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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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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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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I am Parisian. I don't love the French.
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It's interesting to know how much you are worth.
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It's always fun when people ask you for advice.
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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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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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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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I love the free spirit in London.
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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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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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I'm not bad-looking, but I'm not a beauty, either.