Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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My name has become a brand - it could be make-up, clothing, perfume.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.
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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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To be a good model, you have to be very smart.
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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 think I have character, and that is what people like in me.
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I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.
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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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I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.
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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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For me, fashion is not about reality.
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I get on well with models, and I like to treat them well.
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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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Makeup can help you capture a moment.
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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 very lucky in that I can eat what I want and don't have to follow any special diet.
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The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.