Top 259 Quotes & Sayings by Carine Roitfeld - Page 4

Enthusiasm is something so positive.

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.

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.'

If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'

We have the sort of beautiful older woman here in Paris. People like Loulou de la Falaise and Betty Catroux, all these beautiful looking women over 60... So there is culture here in France that even if you are older, you can stay beautiful.

You lose attitude when you feel too comfortable, so I prefer to wear clothes that have a certain edge to them.

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.

If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.

When I don't know what to wear, I wear black lace.

Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.

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 think it's good to have surprises in fashion because we always see the same things.

Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.

I love the noise of my wooden clogs on my wooden floor. Dancers wear clogs. They're good for you.

My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'

Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't.

When I was a little girl, my mother tried to make me dance, but I did not like it then.

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 have good legs, so I prefer my skirt lengths and my high heels. It's like my uniform.

There are too many 50-year-olds dressing as 20-year-olds.

I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.

It's always fun when people ask you for advice.

The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.

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.

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.

Each morning you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.

Once you start being a muse, you cannot stop being a muse.

My biggest icon is Liz Taylor because I don?t think she had great taste but I loved her energy.

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.

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.

Today there is too much retouching, and I don't like it, except on me.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Let the others have beauty. I've got the charisma.

There are certain models who might not be considered beautiful. I think personality is more important than looks.

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.

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!

When everything is good, maybe I think it’s the time to do something else.

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

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?"

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.

In fashion, it’s always better to be an interesting person than a beautiful one. Character is much more fascinating than pure good looks.

I think the first picture taken is often the best one.

Each time I?m coming out of my apartment I remember the quote of Coco Chanel; she said, ?Each time I?m leaving my apartment or my hotel, I?m looking at myself in the mirror and I take off one piece of my look. It?s always one thing too much.? And it?s 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.

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.

What a women reads makes her more attractive and more elegant than what she wears.

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.

When in doubt, wear a suit.

I am like a lemon. I'm pressed for more juice. When I have fun, there's still juice. I am not dried up.

It’s funny, everything is so much easier when you do it yourself.

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.

I think you are born chic. You cannot be chic. It is something you cannot learn.

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.

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.

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.

Always wear high heels. Yes, they give you power. you move differently, sit differently and even speak differently.

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.