Carine Roitfeld Quotes

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

  Carine Roitfeld

  Learning, Thinking, Elegance

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• Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Clothes, Looks

  "Fashion's sharpest operator". Interview with Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2009.

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

  Carine Roitfeld

  Beautiful, Fashion, Character

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

  Carine Roitfeld

  Muse

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

  Carine Roitfeld

  Moving, High Heels, Shoes

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• Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Needs, Extravagance

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

  Carine Roitfeld

  Real, Thinking, Order

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

  Carine Roitfeld

  Attractive, Elegant

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• 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.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Mistake, Clothes, Labels

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• 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.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Beautiful, Eye, Brave

  "Fashion Insider: Carine Roitfeld". Harper's BAZAAR interview, www.harpersbazaar.co.uk. January 31, 2013.

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• 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.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Beautiful, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Morning, Dresses

  "Carine Roitfeld: 'I want to show fashion can be a nice world, if a bit crazy'". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2013.

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• 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?"

  Carine Roitfeld

  Girl, Fashion, Thinking

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

  Carine Roitfeld

  Charisma

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

  Carine Roitfeld

  Thinking

  "Carine Roitfeld steps down as editor of French Vogue after 10 years" by Helen Pidd, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2010.

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• Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Artist, Tough

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• 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.

  Carine Roitfeld

  People, Giving, Lacking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Thinking, Long, Trying

  Interview with Karl Lagerfeld, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 18, 2011.

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• 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.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Beautiful, Thinking, Age

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• 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.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Believe, Hands, Pockets

  "'Fashion Is a Matter of Taste, Not Money'". Interview with Claudia Voigt and Britta Sandberg, www.spiegel.de. April 7, 2011.

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• 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.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Saint, Shy, Looks

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

  Carine Roitfeld

  Easier, Do It Yourself

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• I love black lingerie and white shoes, and I love knives.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Knives, Shoes, White

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• 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.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Feel Better, Awards, People

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

  Carine Roitfeld

  Beautiful, Thinking, Personality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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