Carine Roitfeld Quotes

What I hope I would do is something new, but I still love print. I love to touch paper. I'm not sure if I will ever do a magazine again, but I have plenty of ideas on the subject.

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

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

When you have confidence, when you feel loved by people, you can tell them the truth. It's important that I can say the photo isn't beautiful or the photo shoot sucks.

Sins are timeless. Sins are an everyday reality for every one. Sin has been in existence since the beginning of man, since Adam and Eve. It will always be pertinent.

I do go very fast. I think if I don't go fast it's going to be boring. That's what photographers need to do.

Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I love the free spirit in London.

I hate people who over intellectualize. It bores me deeply.

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.

Each time I’m coming out of my apartment I remember the quote of Coco Chanel; she said, ‘Each time I’m leaving my apartment or my hotel, I’m looking at myself in the mirror and I take off one piece of my look. It’s always one thing too much.’ And it’s a bit the same, always I take off my scarf or I take off my bag or jewellery because I like it simple. Coco Chanel is a great consultant I think.

Clothing is always a tool that helps me take a picture. But it's never about the clothing.

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.

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.

Imitation always stinks. When I take photos, I don't go back. I don't look at the past. I'm always original.

I'm always anxious when it comes to my kids. This always makes me feel very vulnerable. Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama, you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.

It's very difficult to know when you're crossing the boundary. I hate the word boundary because I never think about it when taking a picture. Very often it doesn't mean anything because it depends on who's looking at the picture more than the content of the picture itself.

Fashion is a completely international business.

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.

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.

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.

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

Even though jeans suit me, I never wear jeans.

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.

Each morning you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.

Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.

Each woman needs to know herself and think that the clothes are here to make her more beautiful, because the person is more important than the clothes.

Maybe it's good a thing that people see me this way [in the documentary film]. They expect to see me with the high heels, the glamour looks, but now they will see me running through an airport with flat shoes! Also, they'll discover that stylists with "names" are in general nicer, sweeter, have a heart, have great relationships with family and friends, and that's important. It shows that people in fashion aren't just freaks.

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.

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

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.

Working on women and working on different ages and different shapes of bodies… I love women. I love to spend more time with them.

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

I think that each women, whatever age, needs to recognise something good in her body. Someone has beautiful legs, someone has beautiful hair, someone else has beautiful décolletage or a beautiful waist or beautiful hands. Everyone has something great.

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

You discover yourself through the research of your work.

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

Makeup can help you capture a moment.

There are certain models who might not be considered beautiful. I think personality is more important than looks.

Once you start being a muse, you cannot stop being a muse.

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

In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.