Carine Roitfeld
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.Collection: Friendship
I am very lucky in that I can eat what I want and don't have to follow any special diet.Collection: Diet
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.Collection: Attitude
You discover yourself through the research of your work.Collection: Learning
You lose attitude when you feel too comfortable, so I prefer to wear clothes that have a certain edge to them.Collection: Attitude
When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
When in doubt, wear a suit. Look at male politicians: you see them in a suit, and they look fine. But if you see a picture of them on the weekend or on vacation, there's a good chance they look terrible and unstylish.
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.
I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
I love black lingerie and white shoes, and I love knives.
I love the noise of my wooden clogs on my wooden floor. Dancers wear clogs. They're good for you.
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.
I think that something needs to be weird in order to have a real beauty.
I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It's good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young.
I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
You can be beautiful with big breasts; you can be beautiful in your 40s. If you don't have perfect ankles, still you can move your legs in a certain way and look very sexy.
When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
Sometimes, when you go to airport and look at the people, you see the worst looks - but the worst looks can give you more ideas than the best looks.
The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.
I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.
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.
Each morning, you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.
I am not a celebrity. I work with celebrities, and it is very difficult. When a celebrity wears a dress, it's good for business, so brands fight for the red carpet. Me? I don't like it, because fashion becomes a job about dressing celebrities. And it's a bit boring.
You know it's very important, the role of a mother... I don't know, but it's feminism to me to love your kids.
I love if someone invites me to a restaurant, so I don't know if that's a feminist.
I love the free spirit in London.
Fashion is a completely international business.
Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
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.
I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people.
The first Chanel jacket that I saw - that I knew was Chanel - was on TV. It was on Mrs. Kennedy - the pink one.
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.
Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
I am afraid of blood, but for some reason often I put blood in my photos... I don't know why.
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.
I started wearing high heels when I first worked with Mario Testino. He is tall; I had to be at his height. And I have never stopped since then.
The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.
Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong.
I actually love the 'rappers look,' with the saggy pants and oversized clothes. It's very deliberate.
I'm always independent. No boss.
People ask me 'Why you want to do another magazine - 10 years at 'Vogue,' a great magazine? Why do you want to make a new one? It's so difficult and there's already so many.' I wanted to do something new, bring a new vision.
I made a big family when I was working at 'Vogue' for ten years, and I'm still friends with a lot of them.
I'm a very spontaneous person, for the bad and the good.
I am Parisian. I don't love the French.
I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
I don't think because you have money you have taste... Education and money - this is quite rare. No?
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.'
The less you have, the more you enjoy.