Carine Roitfeld quote: "People might think I'm very hard, what with my black make-up, my hair over my eyes, etc. My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me."

When you love fashion, there is no weekend. Everything just blends together.
CARINE ROITFELD

Makeup can help you capture a moment.
CARINE ROITFELD

I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It's good to be surrounded by ki...
CARINE ROITFELD

The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how th...
CARINE ROITFELD

I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young g...
CARINE ROITFELD

One time, a burglar came to my apartment, so we called the police. My son was here, so I think they ...
CARINE ROITFELD

Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: ...
CARINE ROITFELD

My name has become a brand - it could be make-up, clothing, perfume.
CARINE ROITFELD

I'm not a superhero - I'm a super worker!
CARINE ROITFELD

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

Most makeup campaigns are not in black and white.
CARINE ROITFELD

In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursu...
CARINE ROITFELD

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

It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I l...
CARINE ROITFELD

When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try ...
CARINE ROITFELD

The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the ...
CARINE ROITFELD

When I don't know what to wear, I wear black lace.
CARINE ROITFELD

It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
CARINE ROITFELD

'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking ...
CARINE ROITFELD

My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.
CARINE ROITFELD

I'm always independent. No boss.
CARINE ROITFELD

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

I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from...
CARINE ROITFELD

When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointe...
CARINE ROITFELD

We are very luck to be women, so even if we're wearing trousers, I always wear them with some la...
CARINE ROITFELD

If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'
CARINE ROITFELD

Amidst globalisation, trends are becoming worldwide, so it's important to take a unique approach...
CARINE ROITFELD

I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that...
CARINE ROITFELD

You can be beautiful with big breasts; you can be beautiful in your 40s. If you don't have perfe...
CARINE ROITFELD

You discover yourself through the research of your work.
CARINE ROITFELD

I'm still like a butterfly going from one job to another job. But it's quite lovely - I hope...
CARINE ROITFELD

I want to be the Joan of Arc of fashion. I want to be the link between the runway and the real woman...
CARINE ROITFELD

If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.
CARINE ROITFELD

We have the sort of beautiful older woman here in Paris. People like Loulou de la Falaise and Betty ...
CARINE ROITFELD

Paris is mostly retired people - I love it, and it's a beautiful city, but it's quite slow.
CARINE ROITFELD

Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image....
CARINE ROITFELD

Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but...
CARINE ROITFELD

Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.
CARINE ROITFELD

I miss my parents. But still, my granddaughter, my daughter, my grandma, you know, so it's very ...
CARINE ROITFELD

When in doubt, wear a suit. Look at male politicians: you see them in a suit, and they look fine. Bu...
CARINE ROITFELD

I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am unde...
CARINE ROITFELD

The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were ver...
CARINE ROITFELD

Karl Lagerfeld looks very tough because of the glasses, and he has all these rings and the leather g...
CARINE ROITFELD

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

Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a c...
CARINE ROITFELD

I love curvy women. Maybe because I'm not. I would love to be a Marilyn Monroe, but I'm very...
CARINE ROITFELD

I was the muse of Tom Ford and Gucci for years, but that was a long time ago.
CARINE ROITFELD

I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't n...
CARINE ROITFELD

People think I only wear new clothes, that I'm very trendy, but I like classic things on me, to ...
CARINE ROITFELD

I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's ...
CARINE ROITFELD

Fashion is a completely international business.
CARINE ROITFELD

It's a little bit boring, this casting. We need to have a wider variety of beauty, no?
CARINE ROITFELD

You know, I love Tom Ford, and I love what he has done.
CARINE ROITFELD

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

In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or con...
CARINE ROITFELD

I think that each woman, whatever age, needs to recognize something good in her body. Someone has be...
CARINE ROITFELD

Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
CARINE ROITFELD

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

You lose attitude when you feel too comfortable, so I prefer to wear clothes that have a certain edg...
CARINE ROITFELD

Fashion is a hard business.
CARINE ROITFELD

It's always fun when people ask you for advice.
CARINE ROITFELD

Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't...
CARINE ROITFELD

Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.
CARINE ROITFELD

There are too many 50-year-olds dressing as 20-year-olds.
CARINE ROITFELD

I discovered the slip dress, which I think is one of the more French things because when you take of...
CARINE ROITFELD

When you're editor-in-chief of a big magazine, you cannot be a cover girl for MAC; you cannot be...
CARINE ROITFELD

Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. ...
CARINE ROITFELD

I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist,...
CARINE ROITFELD

Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability t...
CARINE ROITFELD

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

If I'm doing something in fashion, I will try to respect the 'laws' of the business, but...
CARINE ROITFELD

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.
CARINE ROITFELD

If I like a make-up artist's look, even if nobody knows about her, I use her. New people give me...
CARINE ROITFELD

If you listen too much, you won't be able to create.
CARINE ROITFELD

The hair and makeup is very important in a fashion picture. When I create a look for a girl, it star...
CARINE ROITFELD

When a designer creates, he looks at the world around him.
CARINE ROITFELD

It's very difficult for designers today. How can someone produce so many shows? Now the minimum ...
CARINE ROITFELD

I'm not a nostalgic person: I never look back; I always forget.
CARINE ROITFELD

Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who rai...
CARINE ROITFELD

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

I like to provoke. I'm very French.
CARINE ROITFELD

Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. S...
CARINE ROITFELD

It's interesting to know how much you are worth.
CARINE ROITFELD

It's funny, everything is so much easier when you do it yourself.
CARINE ROITFELD

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

When you have the baby, there is no BlackBerry, no computer; you just have the baby on your stomach,...
CARINE ROITFELD

I don't have a big appetite. I don't eat a lot, to be honest - never. I'm a bit like a l...
CARINE ROITFELD

When I left French 'Vogue,' New York welcomed me with a big, big hug.
CARINE ROITFELD

Like most Russians, I am very superstitious, and if I don't get married, I don't get divorce...
CARINE ROITFELD

The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.
CARINE ROITFELD

The less you have, the more you enjoy.
CARINE ROITFELD

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

Becoming a grandmother brought me back to the things I forgot to love. Nature. Playing. Seeing anima...
CARINE ROITFELD

I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.
CARINE ROITFELD

Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
CARINE ROITFELD

In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an ar...
CARINE ROITFELD

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

Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.
CARINE ROITFELD

People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.
CARINE ROITFELD

What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?
CARINE ROITFELD

I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, ...
CARINE ROITFELD

Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
CARINE ROITFELD

When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I...
CARINE ROITFELD

Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.
CARINE ROITFELD

I'm not bad-looking, but I'm not a beauty, either.
CARINE ROITFELD

You can be covered and be very sexy. It's not what you show; it's what you have in mind, the...
CARINE ROITFELD

I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
CARINE ROITFELD

I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
CARINE ROITFELD

I'm a very spontaneous person, for the bad and the good.
CARINE ROITFELD

I actually love the 'rappers look,' with the saggy pants and oversized clothes. It's ver...
CARINE ROITFELD

The first Chanel jacket that I saw - that I knew was Chanel - was on TV. It was on Mrs. Kennedy - th...
CARINE ROITFELD

I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glass...
CARINE ROITFELD

Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless, but there ...
CARINE ROITFELD

I love the free spirit in London.
CARINE ROITFELD

You know it's very important, the role of a mother... I don't know, but it's feminism to...
CARINE ROITFELD

I love the noise of my wooden clogs on my wooden floor. Dancers wear clogs. They're good for you...
CARINE ROITFELD

'Vogue' is a bigger name than my name.
CARINE ROITFELD

Sometimes, when you go to airport and look at the people, you see the worst looks - but the worst lo...
CARINE ROITFELD

I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
CARINE ROITFELD

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.
CARINE ROITFELD

I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it's my way of thinking. So I ...
CARINE ROITFELD

The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand,...
CARINE ROITFELD

To me, makeup is fashion and vice versa. What I dress and what I wear always needs to work with my m...
CARINE ROITFELD

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

Enthusiasm is something so positive.
CARINE ROITFELD

'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
CARINE ROITFELD

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

There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different.
CARINE ROITFELD

I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.
CARINE ROITFELD

Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
CARINE ROITFELD

I am not a celebrity. I work with celebrities, and it is very difficult. When a celebrity wears a dr...
CARINE ROITFELD

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

My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'
CARINE ROITFELD

They virtually have no public administration. There has been a huge, huge brain drain. Nobody wants ...
CARINE ROENEN

People are interested in Haiti in a negative sense, like when we have to stop drugs from flowing thr...
CARINE ROENEN

I find it extremely shocking, I find it absolutely scandalous.
CARINE CAMBY

I don't see what the problem is, whether she was hit by a car or committed suicide.
CARINE CAMBY

Disbursed means the contracts have been signed. That doesn't mean the money has actually arrived.
CARINE ROENEN

Keep moving forward and be true to yourself. You are the only one who can ensure your own happiness.
CARINE MCCANDLESS

Tom Ford gave me high heels for the baby. They're a little kitten heel with a velvet rope that y...
JULIA RESTOIN ROITFELD

I sometimes apply eyeliner - Giorgio Armani Smooth Silk Eye Pencil in #1 Black - and smudge it with ...
JULIA RESTOIN ROITFELD

If I design another line, I will definitely design pieces that suit both pregnant and non-pregnant w...
JULIA RESTOIN ROITFELD

It's so strange how people can be judgmental when they see a pregnant woman dressed in high heel...
JULIA RESTOIN ROITFELD

Being pregnant was the best time of my life because nothing could affect me. It was like a detox - I...
JULIA RESTOIN ROITFELD

What I find is that you don't need to go for fancy mascara - I always get the L'Oreal ones f...
JULIA RESTOIN ROITFELD

Of course I like to be tan, but now I try to avoid it. I don't mind having a little glow, but no...
JULIA RESTOIN ROITFELD

For me, beauty is more about prevention than anything. Especially now that I've hit 30, it's...
JULIA RESTOIN ROITFELD

French people don't breastfeed. And I did it. My mum freaked out. She didn't get it at all. ...
JULIA RESTOIN ROITFELD

For my eyes, I think an eyelash curler makes me look much more awake, even when I haven't gotten...
JULIA RESTOIN ROITFELD

I guess you could say I want to become like Martha Stewart - just a sexier version!
JULIA RESTOIN ROITFELD

Blowouts, manicures, and massages are my little indulgences; I get them whenever I can. The chair ma...
JULIA RESTOIN ROITFELD

My parents were strict with school, strict with grades. I had piano classes, horseback riding, dance...
JULIA RESTOIN ROITFELD

So much of my body changed from being pregnant. My hair got so much longer from all of the multivita...
JULIA RESTOIN ROITFELD

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