Carine Roitfeld
You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
In my 10 years, I never put a girl that was too skinny in French 'Vogue.'
I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.
I think you are born chic. You cannot be chic. It is something you cannot learn.Collection: Learning
In fashion, it’s always better to be an interesting person than a beautiful one. Character is much more fascinating than pure good looks.Collection: Beautiful
Once you start being a muse, you cannot stop being a muse.Collection: Muse
Always wear high heels. Yes, they give you power. you move differently, sit differently and even speak differently.Collection: Moving
I think that something needs to be weird in order to have real beauty.Collection: Real
What a women reads makes her more attractive and more elegant than what she wears.Collection: Attractive
You can't learn how to be elegant; you can only learn how to avoid mistakes. The rest is instinct. Elegance is about the way you cross your legs, not the label or the newest clothes from the latest collection.Collection: Mistake
I need a lot of black on my eyes and a little shot of vodka to be brave, because you're beautiful when you relax.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Beautiful
Each morning you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.Collection: Fashion
I am not a good professional of fashion. I am not an expert about how clothes are constructed or the history of fashion. I never start with fashion. I always think of the girl and her personality - because all that matters to me when you look at a page is, "Do you want to be that girl?"Collection: Girl
Let the others have beauty. I've got the charisma.Collection: Charisma
When everything is good, maybe I think it’s the time to do something else.Collection: Thinking
There are people who give you the confidence that you're lacking and once you have confidence, you're free and finally you can let out what's inside of you.Collection: People
I think that when you're taking pictures with my principles, you can try anything. Dare to do a lot of things - dare with sexuality, dare to break taboos as long as it remains photogenic. As long as I find an elegance and beauty in it, I am not afraid to tackle anything.Collection: Thinking
I think that each women, whatever age, needs to recognise something good in her body. Someone has beautiful legs, someone has beautiful hair, someone else has beautiful décolletage or a beautiful waist or beautiful hands. Everyone has something great.Collection: Beautiful
I believe in the Yves Saint Laurent woman who either has her hands in the pockets of her pantsuit or is holding her lover's hand. She doesn't need a bag.Collection: Believe
Monsier 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.Collection: Saint
It’s funny, everything is so much easier when you do it yourself.Collection: Easier
I get an award for being the best dressed, but at the end of the day I'm not Daphne Guinness. I don't like people to look at me for my dress. The letter is more important than the envelope. But if you feel good in your envelope, then you will feel better about yourself.Collection: Feel Better
There are certain models who might not be considered beautiful. I think personality is more important than looks.Collection: Beautiful
Today there is too much retouching, and I don't like it, except on me.Collection: Today
I am very obsessed with ballet now because it is a very difficult sport and a beautiful one because it is not about money. It's not like playing football or tennis - dance has no sponsors, it's just for the beauty. Maybe it is the only last pure sport.Collection: Beautiful
Beauty can be quite boring, especially if you're talking about beauty that doesn't last. And what lasts is exactly the thing that maybe wasn't pretty at first. It comes over time to be beautiful or interesting or exciting.Collection: Beautiful
What I hope I would do is something new, but I still love print. I love to touch paper. I'm not sure if I will ever do a magazine again, but I have plenty of ideas on the subject.Collection: Ideas
There is always a bit of seduction to it when one person is clothed and the other is naked, which can be a little weird. Everybody should be naked. In that case, it would be easier. Let's do a huge naked photo shoot!Collection: Naked
I am like a lemon. I'm pressed for more juice. When I have fun, there's still juice. I am not dried up.Collection: Fun
My biggest icon is Liz Taylor because I dont think she had great taste but I loved her energy.Collection: Thinking
I think the first picture taken is often the best one.Collection: Taken
Yves Saint Laurent liked women to put their hands in their pockets, or to hold cigarettes, and act a bit like boys. It was to give an impression of composure, some self-assurance, and to counter the feminine appearance.Collection: Boys
When in doubt, wear a suit.Collection: Doubt
Maybe it's good a thing that people see me this way [in the documentary film]. They expect to see me with the high heels, the glamour looks, but now they will see me running through an airport with flat shoes! Also, they'll discover that stylists with "names" are in general nicer, sweeter, have a heart, have great relationships with family and friends, and that's important. It shows that people in fashion aren't just freaks.Collection: Running
I think, in many ways, certain people sought me out maybe because they liked my body language or they liked the way I wore a slit skirt, the way I cross my legs or carry my purse. It's quite inspiring to play the seduction card.Collection: Thinking
Like this. The wristbands you get at nightclubs next to all the bracelets? It's always the details that give me the ideas. It's fun to play with fashion because it is a fantasy. Each morning you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.Collection: Fashion
I think that most of the women when they dress in the morning, they try to be someone elseToday there is too much retouching, and I don't like it...except on me.Collection: Morning
Even though I love fashion, I prefer people to fashion. Fashion is to make the person comfortable in her body, its not something very serious, you get to play.Collection: Fashion
Each time Im coming out of my apartment I remember the quote of Coco Chanel; she said, Each time Im leaving my apartment or my hotel, Im looking at myself in the mirror and I take off one piece of my look. Its always one thing too much. And its a bit the same, always I take off my scarf or I take off my bag or jewellery because I like it simple. Coco Chanel is a great consultant I think.Collection: Simple
Working on women and working on different ages and different shapes of bodies I love women. I love to spend more time with them.Collection: Age
I don't say "oh, I'm a grandmother; I can't wear this anymore." Everything I can't wear I've already given to my daughter.Collection: Daughter
"Grandmother" doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.Collection: Home
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.Collection: Beautiful
I've been working with Riccardo Tisci from Givenchy.It's been a long collaboration, and I don't think it's going to stop now. It's very important to me. Riccardo is younger than me, so it's great to have someone new teaching you in everything, not just in fashion. I'm teaching him in French style, what a women's style is, but he's teaching me in all of these different styles of music.I love this new world for me. It's refreshing and nourishing to keep learning about new things.Collection: Fashion
I do go very fast. I think if I don't go fast it's going to be boring. That's what photographers need to do.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Ideas
Sins are timeless. Sins are an everyday reality for every one. Sin has been in existence since the beginning of man, since Adam and Eve. It will always be pertinent.Collection: Reality