Carine Roitfeld Quotes

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

Fashion is a completely international business.

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

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

I love the free spirit in London.

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.

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

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.

I don't have problems with my weight, I don't change weight but I think when you're gaining in age your position has to be beautiful.

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

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

Even though I love fashion, I prefer people to fashion. Fashion is to make the person comfortable in her body, it’s not something very serious, you get to play.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I'm still like a butterfly going from one job to another job. But it's quite lovely - I hope to keep this freedom, to have fun.

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.

Thinking differently is my strength.

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

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

It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.

I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.

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

When Tom Ford asked me to consult for Gucci, I had never consulted in my life. I didn't know what consulting was, and look, we made something amazing.

I am very lucky in that I can eat what I want and don't have to follow any special diet.

I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it's my way of thinking. So I love Azzedine Alaia, because I've known him for 30 years, and he's making my dresses most of the time.

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.'

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.

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

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.