Quotes by Carine Roitfeld

About Carine Roitfeld:

Carine Roitfeld is the former editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris, a position she held from 2001 to 31 January 2011. A former fashion model and writer, she announced her resignation on 17 December 2010 and was succeeded by Emmanuelle Alt. In 2012, she became founder and editor-in-chief of CR Fashion Book.
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I am very surprised by someone like Alexander Wang. I am amazed how he is good with fashion, with business, with public relations himself, with an attitude in his clothes that is spoken immediately.

Carine Roitfeld

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

Carine Roitfeld

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

Carine Roitfeld

I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.

Carine Roitfeld

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...

Carine Roitfeld

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.

Carine Roitfeld

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 bor...

Carine Roitfeld

I have a lot to say about fashion - not just about fashion, but beauty, art.

Carine Roitfeld

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

Carine Roitfeld

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.

Carine Roitfeld

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.

Carine Roitfeld

When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.

Carine Roitfeld

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.

Carine Roitfeld

I think that Americans, they love comfort more than Europeans. Americans created the T-shirt, the sweat pants, and they create the best sporting shoes.

Carine Roitfeld

I'm still like a butterfly going from one job to another job. But it's quite lovely - I hope to keep this freedom, to have fun.

Carine Roitfeld

In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.

Carine Roitfeld

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.

Carine Roitfeld

I made a big family when I was working at 'Vogue' for ten years, and I'm still friends with a lot of them.

Carine Roitfeld

Fashion is one big family.

Carine Roitfeld

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.

Carine Roitfeld

Author Bio

  • NameCarine Roitfeld
  • DescriptionFrench editor
  • BornSeptember 19, 1954
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionEditor-in-chief; Journalist