Carine Roitfeld
Even though jeans suit me, I never wear jeans.
There are a lot of good men's magazines. In England, you have 'Arena Homme+' and 'Another Man;' and in France we have 'L'Officiel Hommes.' But all are looking similar.
I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.
Like most Russians, I am very superstitious, and if I don't get married, I don't get divorced.
I love curvy women. Maybe because I'm not. I would love to be a Marilyn Monroe, but I'm very far away from that... So I love very curvy girls.
I never think I have to prove something.
To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.
When I left French 'Vogue,' New York welcomed me with a big, big hug.
I want to be the Joan of Arc of fashion. I want to be the link between the runway and the real woman.
It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.
I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.
When you're editor-in-chief of a big magazine, you cannot be a cover girl for MAC; you cannot be the face of Givenchy - of course you can't; it's doesn't go with the job.
I think it's good to have surprises in fashion because we always see the same things.
When you go to a show, Americans in New York are very proper, much more so than the French. Everything is perfect. Their hair, the nails, everything. The look. Everything is perfection.
I discovered the slip dress, which I think is one of the more French things because when you take off your clothes, even when to go into a shop to buy something, or you're going to Riccardo Tisci to try on a suit, it's like having protection.
There are too many 50-year-olds dressing as 20-year-olds.
I think that each woman, whatever age, needs to recognize something good in her body. Someone has beautiful legs, someone has beautiful hair, someone else has beautiful decolletage or a beautiful waist or beautiful hands. Everyone has something great.
Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.
When I don't know what to wear, I wear black lace.
We are very luck to be women, so even if we're wearing trousers, I always wear them with some lace underwear or a very feminine bra - I like that.
Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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.
I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.
Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't.
I was the muse of Tom Ford and Gucci for years, but that was a long time ago.
It's always fun when people ask you for advice.
If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
Fashion is a hard business.
Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'
Amidst globalisation, trends are becoming worldwide, so it's important to take a unique approach to what fashion has to offer. Be yourself in the middle of it all; fashion shouldn't be 'try hard.'
Enthusiasm is something so positive.
When I was a little girl, my mother tried to make me dance, but I did not like it then.
Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.
A lot of rumours on the Internet are wrong and horrible.
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.
When everything is good, maybe I think it's the time to do something else.
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.
Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.
There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different.
I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
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'm not a Facebook girl. Even though there is a fake Facebook with my name, it's not me. I'm not on Twitter; it's not me.
Sometimes pressure can be good, and it gives you a lot of energy to do something.
'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
If you are a reader of 'Harper's Bazaar,' to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you love fashion, you love travel, you love art, you love music.