Carine Roitfeld Quotes

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Carine Roitfeld

Profession : Editor

Birth : September 19, 1954

In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art.

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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.

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When you're writing, you're on your own, and I like to work as a team.

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Fashion is one big family.

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Fashion is a hard business.

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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.

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I think that something needs to be weird in order to have a real beauty.

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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.

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'Vogue' is a bigger name than my name.

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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.

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I love the free spirit in London.

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I want to be the Joan of Arc of fashion. I want to be the link between the runway and the real woman.

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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.

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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.

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I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.

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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.

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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.

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It's interesting to know how much you are worth.

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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.

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I'm a very spontaneous person, for the bad and the good.

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