Carine Roitfeld famous quotes

I think you are born chic. You cannot be chic. It is something you cannot learn.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Thinking #Chic #Born

Once you start being a muse, you cannot stop being a muse.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Muse

Always wear high heels. Yes, they give you power. you move differently, sit differently and even speak differently.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Moving #High Heels #Giving

What a women reads makes her more attractive and more elegant than what she wears.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Attractive

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.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Fashion #Jobs #Powerful

Today there is too much retouching, and I don't like it, except on me.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Today #Too Much #Retouching

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Ballet

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?"
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Girl #Fashion #Thinking

I believe in the Yves Saint Laurent woman who either has her hands in the pockets of her pantsuit or is holding her lover's hand. She doesn't need a bag.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Believe #Hands #Pockets

Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Fashion #Needs #Extravagance

I think that something needs to be weird in order to have real beauty.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Real #Thinking #Order

You discover yourself through the research of your work.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Over You #Research #Discovering Yourself

I think I have character, and that is what people like in me.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Character #Thinking #People

Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Crazy #Eyebrows #Bleaching

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.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Children #Crazy #Virgos

It’s funny, everything is so much easier when you do it yourself.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Easier #Do It Yourself

A magazine is not just one person. And a fashion shoot is the same!
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Fashion #Magazines #Persons

A lot of rumours on the Internet are wrong and horrible.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Internet #Horrible #Rumours

Makeup can help you capture a moment.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Makeup #Helping #Moments

Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Fashion #Ballet #Tradition

Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Years #Shoes #White

Each morning, you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Fashion #Morning #Dresses

Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Sports #Dancing #Lasts

Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Fashion #Light #Trying

Even though jeans suit me, I never wear jeans.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Jeans #Suits

Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Fashion #Artist #Tough

Fashion is a completely international business.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Fashion #International Business

Enthusiasm is something so positive.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Enthusiasm

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.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Fashion #Stupid #Thinking

People always say, ‘You look like Iggy Pop,’
-- Carine Roitfeld

#People #Looks #Pops

I am not mean at all, I am not tough at all.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Mean #Tough

Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Fashion #Crazy #Serious

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.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Fashion #Giving #Political

I think that most of the women when they dress in the morning, they try to be someone elseToday there is too much retouching, and I don't like it...except on me.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Morning #Thinking #Trying

Like this. The wristbands you get at nightclubs next to all the bracelets? It's always the details that give me the ideas. It's fun to play with fashion because it is a fantasy. Each morning you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Fashion #Morning #Fun

"Grandmother" doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Mean #Home #Grandmother

When everything is good, maybe I think it’s the time to do something else.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Thinking

I have good legs, so I prefer my skirt lengths and my high heels. It's like my uniform.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#High Heels #Legs #Uniforms

When you love fashion, there is no weekend. Everything just blends together.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Fashion #Weekend #Together

I get an award for being the best dressed, but at the end of the day I'm not Daphne Guinness. I don't like people to look at me for my dress. The letter is more important than the envelope. But if you feel good in your envelope, then you will feel better about yourself.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Feel Better #Awards #People

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.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Boys #Self #Hands

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.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Baby #Nice #Heart

In fashion, it’s always better to be an interesting person than a beautiful one. Character is much more fascinating than pure good looks.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Beautiful #Fashion #Character

Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Fashion #Clothes #Looks

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.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Ideas #People #Dancing

Let the others have beauty. I've got the charisma.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Charisma

Monsier Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Saint #Shy #Looks

You can't learn how to be elegant; you can only learn how to avoid mistakes. The rest is instinct. Elegance is about the way you cross your legs, not the label or the newest clothes from the latest collection.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Mistake #Clothes #Labels

If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Fashion #Ballerina

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.
-- Carine Roitfeld

#Artist #Play #Ideas