Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.
— Carine Roitfeld
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.'
Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
I was the muse of Tom Ford and Gucci for years, but that was a long time ago.
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.
When I don't know what to wear, I wear black lace.
The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.
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.
I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
I have good legs, so I prefer my skirt lengths and my high heels. It's like my uniform.
Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
If I'm doing something in fashion, I will try to respect the 'laws' of the business, but I will try to keep my integrity and my respect for the designers and for my readers.
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.
'Vogue' is a bigger name than my name.
If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.
I hate people who over intellectualize. It bores me deeply.
When I was a little girl, my mother tried to make me dance, but I did not like it then.
My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'
I love the noise of my wooden clogs on my wooden floor. Dancers wear clogs. They're good for you.
If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't.
Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.
There are too many 50-year-olds dressing as 20-year-olds.
I think it's good to have surprises in fashion because we always see the same things.
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.
Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.
As you get older, you see life is very short, so you have to appreciate more and more and to enjoy it.
The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.
In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art.
If I like a make-up artist's look, even if nobody knows about her, I use her. New people give me energy.
I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.
In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.
Enthusiasm is something so positive.
You lose attitude when you feel too comfortable, so I prefer to wear clothes that have a certain edge to them.
Fashion is a hard business.
It's always fun when people ask you for advice.
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.
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.
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.
I discovered the slip dress, which I think is one of the more French things because when you take off your clothes, even when to go into a shop to buy something, or you're going to Riccardo Tisci to try on a suit, it's like having protection.
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.
If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'
I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'
I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.
I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.
I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.
If you listen too much, you won't be able to create.
Either you are a good Virgo or a crazy Virgo! The good Virgo side of me is educating and raising the children - being there for them.
