We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come across is perhaps the length of a skirt.
— Carine Roitfeld
I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
You can't put yourself into competition with a magazine like 'Vogue.' You have to create something new, something different.
I like to provoke. I'm very French.
People always say, 'You look like Iggy Pop.'
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.
When you love fashion, there is no weekend. Everything just blends together.
It's interesting to know how much you are worth.
It's funny, everything is so much easier when you do it yourself.
I have a lot to say about fashion - not just about fashion, but beauty, art.
When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.
When you get older, you have to stay a bit rock n' roll so that young people will still be interested in you. The way you move, the way you talk, maybe the way you have your hair in your face a little bit - this keeps you interesting.
I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.
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.
Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.
I get on well with models, and I like to treat them well.
To me, makeup is fashion and vice versa. What I dress and what I wear always needs to work with my makeup, which is usually the same anyway.
To be a good model, you have to be very smart.
For me, fashion is not about reality.
'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.
Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a stylist. They are two very different jobs.
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.
My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.
London Fashion Week isn't the most organised, but I don't mind that. It's such an exciting place - it's small and cool.
When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
My name has become a brand - it could be make-up, clothing, perfume.
You can be beautiful with big breasts; you can be beautiful in your 40s. If you don't have perfect ankles, still you can move your legs in a certain way and look very sexy.
Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.
People think I only wear new clothes, that I'm very trendy, but I like classic things on me, to mix with a trendy pair of shoes.
One time, a burglar came to my apartment, so we called the police. My son was here, so I think they left before they tried to steal something. So the police come to my apartment, and they say, 'Oh my God, did they steal everything?' I was like, 'No, it was like that!'
It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.
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.
Karl Lagerfeld looks very tough because of the glasses, and he has all these rings and the leather gloves, and he's so smart. But he's a very nice person... when he comes into a room or studio, he is going to say hello to each person, and the same when he leaves.
I'm not the girl next door.
If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a dark vision.
The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
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.
Fashion is one big family.
Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
I am not mean at all; I am not tough at all.
When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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.
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.
Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
When you have the baby, there is no BlackBerry, no computer; you just have the baby on your stomach, and your heart is beating the same time as the baby's. It's very nice.
I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.
When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
