Carine Roitfeld
I'm not bad-looking, but I'm not a beauty, either.
I think I have character, and that is what people like in me.
I don't have a big appetite. I don't eat a lot, to be honest - never. I'm a bit like a little bird, picking all day long, but I'm not getting pasta or getting all those things, you know?
I never like to wear too much makeup, and sometimes the best makeup is when it's not too perfect. I like to sometimes apply my makeup with my fingers.
To me, makeup is fashion and vice versa. What I dress and what I wear always needs to work with my makeup, which is usually the same anyway.
When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.
I get on well with models, and I like to treat them well.
Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.
It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.
I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
One time, a burglar came to my apartment, so we called the police. My son was here, so I think they left before they tried to steal something. So the police come to my apartment, and they say, 'Oh my God, did they steal everything?' I was like, 'No, it was like that!'
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.
People think I only wear new clothes, that I'm very trendy, but I like classic things on me, to mix with a trendy pair of shoes.
I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.
Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.
When you get older, you have to stay a bit rock n' roll so that young people will still be interested in you. The way you move, the way you talk, maybe the way you have your hair in your face a little bit - this keeps you interesting.
When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.
I see girls who are so skinny on the catwalks, and I know so many of them destroy their lives and their family's lives.
My name has become a brand - it could be make-up, clothing, perfume.
I have a lot to say about fashion - not just about fashion, but beauty, art.
When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
It's funny, everything is so much easier when you do it yourself.
I am not mean at all; I am not tough at all.
It's interesting to know how much you are worth.
Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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.
When you love fashion, there is no weekend. Everything just blends together.
Fashion is one big family.
My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.
Just because someone is holding a gun doesn't make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who is holding it.
Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.
People always say, 'You look like Iggy Pop.'
The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
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.
I like to provoke. I'm very French.
If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a dark vision.
'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.
You can't put yourself into competition with a magazine like 'Vogue.' You have to create something new, something different.
I'm not the girl next door.
For me, fashion is not about reality.
I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
Karl Lagerfeld looks very tough because of the glasses, and he has all these rings and the leather gloves, and he's so smart. But he's a very nice person... when he comes into a room or studio, he is going to say hello to each person, and the same when he leaves.
To be a good model, you have to be very smart.
We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come across is perhaps the length of a skirt.
Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.