Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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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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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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I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.
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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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It's always fun when people ask you for advice.
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It's interesting to know how much you are worth.
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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 am Parisian. I don't love the French.
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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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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.
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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.