Top 43 Carine Roitfeld Fashion Quotes
#1. Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.
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#2. Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a stylist. They are two very different jobs.
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#5. 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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#6. Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.
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#7. 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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#8. I am not a celebrity. I work with celebrities, and it is very difficult. When a celebrity wears a dress, it's good for business, so brands fight for the red carpet. Me? I don't like it, because fashion becomes a job about dressing celebrities. And it's a bit boring.
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#11. 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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#12. When you love fashion, there is no weekend. Everything just blends together.
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#13. 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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#14. Each morning, you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.
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#15. My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.
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#16. If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.
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#17. Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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#18. I think that life has brought a lot to fashion, and fashion brings plenty to life. I took my children on photo shoots, at the same time, I borrowed my father's sweater for a photo shoot and, then, I am inspired by a Russian princess because of my Russian roots. Everything is all mixed in together.
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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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#22. A magazine is not just one person. And a fashion shoot is the same!
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#23. London Fashion Week isn't the most organised, but I don't mind that. It's such an exciting place - it's small and cool.
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#24. I do think fashion is fun! Much more than people think.
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#25. 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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#26. Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.
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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. I want to be the Joan of Arc of fashion. I want to be the link between the runway and the real woman.
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#31. The hair and makeup is very important in a fashion picture. When I create a look for a girl, it starts with the makeup. Sometimes it takes an entire day to find the look.
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#32. 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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#33. Amidst globalisation, trends are becoming worldwide, so it's important to take a unique approach to what fashion has to offer. Be yourself in the middle of it all; fashion shouldn't be 'try hard.'
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#34. 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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#35. I have a lot to say about fashion - not just about fashion, but beauty, art.
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#36. 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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#37. Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't.
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#38. I think it's good to have surprises in fashion because we always see the same things.
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#39. 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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#40. 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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#41. I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people.
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#42. I know that people in fashion and people in general hate to be filmed.
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