Quotes by Carine Roitfeld

Carine Roitfeld

French fashion editor

Alive from: 1954-

Category: Media

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

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

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

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  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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  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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  Becoming a grandmother brought me back to the things I forgot to love. Nature. Playing. Seeing animals. A new way of looking. A rejuvenation. A cycle of life - things come back to you. The details.

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  Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.

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  Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.

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  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.

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

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

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  If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a dark vision.

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

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