Explore Quotes by Carine Roitfeld

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.

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.

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.

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 don't have a big appetite. I don't eat a lot, to be honest - never. I'm a bit like a little bird, picking all day long, but I'm not getting pasta or getting all those things, you know?

There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different.

In my 10 years, I never put a girl that was too skinny in French 'Vogue.'

Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.

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.

For me, fashion is not about reality.

'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.

Fashion is one big family.

Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.

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.

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.

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.