Carine Roitfeld Quotes

#1. I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It's good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young.

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#2. Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.

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#3. My father was very chic. My mum was always encouraging me. Some parents would say, 'Why don't you be a lawyer, a doctor, or something more important?' They never said that.

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#4. I have good legs, so I prefer my skirt lengths and my high heels. It's like my uniform.

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#5. I'm not a Facebook girl. Even though there is a fake Facebook with my name, it's not me. I'm not on Twitter; it's not me.

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#6. You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.

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#7. You discover yourself through the research of your work.

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#8. Fashion is a hard business.

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#9. When I was a little girl, my mother tried to make me dance, but I did not like it then.

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#10. I started wearing high heels when I first worked with Mario Testino. He is tall; I had to be at his height. And I have never stopped since then.

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#11. When in doubt, wear a suit.

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#12. You can be beautiful with big breasts; you can be beautiful in your 40s. If you don't have perfect ankles, still you can move your legs in a certain way and look very sexy.

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#13. I miss my parents. But still, my granddaughter, my daughter, my grandma, you know, so it's very important for me. You lost your parents, but a new baby comes. It's like the cycle of fashion.

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#14. Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.

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#15. 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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#16. I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.

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#17. I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'

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#18. I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.

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#19. In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.

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#20. I get on well with models, and I like to treat them well.

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#21. 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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#22. 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?

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#23. I think that when you're taking pictures with my principles, you can try anything. Dare to do a lot of things - dare with sexuality, dare to break taboos as long as it remains photogenic. As long as I find an elegance and beauty in it, I am not afraid to tackle anything.

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#24. To be a good model, you have to be very smart.

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#25. I am not a good professional of fashion. I am not an expert about how clothes are constructed or the history of fashion. I never start with fashion. I always think of the girl and her personality - because all that matters to me when you look at a page is, "Do you want to be that girl?"

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#26. I am afraid of blood, but for some reason often I put blood in my photos ... I don't know why.

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#27. I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.

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#28. I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.

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#29. If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.

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#30. I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.

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#31. 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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#32. When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.

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#33. 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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#34. Thinking differently is my strength.

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#35. I don't have problems with my weight, I don't change weight but I think when you're gaining in age your position has to be beautiful.

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#36. It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.

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#37. Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.

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#38. I never think I have to prove something.

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#39. 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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#40. 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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#41. I think you are born chic. You cannot be chic. It is something you cannot learn.

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#42. It's interesting to know how much you are worth.

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#43. Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.

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#44. I love black lingerie and white shoes, and I love knives.

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#45. At the start, I had no idea to go into fashion, because I thought people would think I was stupid. I don't worry about those things anymore.

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#46. A magazine is not just one person. And a fashion shoot is the same!

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#47. Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.

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#48. My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'

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#49. 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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#50. I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art ... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.

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#51. Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.

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#52. I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.

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#53. 'Vogue' is a bigger name than my name.

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#54. In fashion, it's always better to be an interesting person than a beautiful one. Character is much more fascinating than pure good looks.

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#55. 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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#56. I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.

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#57. I'm not a nostalgic person: I never look back; I always forget.

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#58. I love if someone invites me to a restaurant, so I don't know if that's a feminist.

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#59. A lot of rumours on the Internet are wrong and horrible.

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#60. I am Parisian. I don't love the French.

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#61. People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.

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#62. People think I only wear new clothes, that I'm very trendy, but I like classic things on me, to mix with a trendy pair of shoes.

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#63. I am like a lemon. I'm pressed for more juice. When I have fun, there's still juice. I am not dried up.

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#64. French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.

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#65. 'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.

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#66. Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.

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#67. When Tom Ford asked me to consult for Gucci, I had never consulted in my life. I didn't know what consulting was, and look, we made something amazing.

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#68. I'm a very spontaneous person, for the bad and the good.

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#69. I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.

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#70. Like most Russians, I am very superstitious, and if I don't get married, I don't get divorced.

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#71. What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?

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#72. Even though jeans suit me, I never wear jeans.

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#73. Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless, but there is a lot of work. It's exactly like doing ballet. It's hours and hours, but when you go onstage, it's just the pleasure of dancing.

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#74. If you are a reader of 'Harper's Bazaar,' to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you love fashion, you love travel, you love art, you love music.

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#75. People always say, 'You look like Iggy Pop.'

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#76. 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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#77. What a women reads makes her more attractive and more elegant than what she wears.

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#78. I have a lot to say about fashion - not just about fashion, but beauty, art.

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#79. When you're writing, you're on your own, and I like to work as a team.

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#80. The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.

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#81. 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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#82. I think it's good to have surprises in fashion because we always see the same things.

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#83. I think it is good when something can stay interesting for a long time. It's not just a trend for one month.

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#84. Yves Saint Laurent liked women to put their hands in their pockets, or to hold cigarettes, and act a bit like boys. It was to give an impression of composure, some self-assurance, and to counter the feminine appearance.

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#85. I have a couture body.

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#86. I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.

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#87. Karl Lagerfeld looks very tough because of the glasses, and he has all these rings and the leather gloves, and he's so smart. But he's a very nice person ... when he comes into a room or studio, he is going to say hello to each person, and the same when he leaves.

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#88. The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.

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#89. Always wear high heels. Yes, they give you power. you move differently, sit differently and even speak differently.

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#90. I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.

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#91. Enthusiasm is something so positive.

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#92. I think the 'Harpers Bazaar' woman is not a fashion victim; she understands fashion but is not a victim, you know.

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#93. People ask me 'Why you want to do another magazine - 10 years at 'Vogue,' a great magazine? Why do you want to make a new one? It's so difficult and there's already so many.' I wanted to do something new, bring a new vision.

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#94. I need a lot of black on my eyes and a little shot of vodka to be brave, because you're beautiful when you relax.

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#95. I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.

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#96. I don't say "oh, I'm a grandmother; I can't wear this anymore." Everything I can't wear I've already given to my daughter.

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#97. I know that people in fashion and people in general hate to be filmed.

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#98. There are too many 50-year-olds dressing as 20-year-olds.

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#99. There are people who give you the confidence that you're lacking and once you have confidence, you're free and finally you can let out what's inside of you.

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#100. I think that something needs to be weird in order to have a real beauty.

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