Carine Roitfeld Quotes About Fashion

Quotes about: Fashion

• 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.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Jobs, Powerful

• 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

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

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Needs, Extravagance

• If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Ballerina, If I Could

  "Carine Roitfeld On Being Carine Roitfeld" by Lee Carter, www.hintmag.com. October 17, 2011.

• Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Crazy, Serious

• 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

• At the start, I had no idea to go into fashion, because I thought people would think I was stupid. I don't worry about those things anymore.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Stupid, Thinking

• 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.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Giving, Political

• Fashion is a completely international business.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, International Business, International

• Like this. The wristbands you get at nightclubs next to all the bracelets? It's always the details that give me the ideas. It's fun to play with fashion because it is a fantasy. Each morning you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Morning, Fun

  "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.

• Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Ballet, Tradition

• 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.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Sides, Cost

  "Former Vogue Editor in Chief Carine Roitfeld: 'Fashion Is a Matter of Taste, Not Money'". Interview with Claudia Voigt and Britta Sandberg, www.spiegel.de. April 7, 2011.

• 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.

• Maybe it's good a thing that people see me this way [in the documentary film]. They expect to see me with the high heels, the glamour looks, but now they will see me running through an airport with flat shoes! Also, they'll discover that stylists with "names" are in general nicer, sweeter, have a heart, have great relationships with family and friends, and that's important. It shows that people in fashion aren't just freaks.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Running, Fashion, Heart

  Source: www.glamour.com

• 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.

• A magazine is not just one person. And a fashion shoot is the same!

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Magazines, Persons

  "'Mademoiselle C': Carine Roitfeld on Being Fearless With Fashion, Faithful to Family (Q&A)". Interview with Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 20, 2013.

• I've been working with Riccardo Tisci from Givenchy.It's been a long collaboration, and I don't think it's going to stop now. It's very important to me. Riccardo is younger than me, so it's great to have someone new teaching you in everything, not just in fashion. I'm teaching him in French style, what a women's style is, but he's teaching me in all of these different styles of music.I love this new world for me. It's refreshing and nourishing to keep learning about new things.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Teaching, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

• When you love fashion, there is no weekend. Everything just blends together.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Weekend, Together

• Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Light, Trying

• I think that life has brought a lot to fashion, and fashion brings plenty to life. I took my children on photo shoots, at the same time, I borrowed my father's sweater for a photo shoot and, then, I am inspired by a Russian princess because of my Russian roots. Everything is all mixed in together.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Children, Father

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Artist, Tough

• Even though I love fashion, I prefer people to fashion. Fashion is to make the person comfortable in her body, it’s not something very serious, you get to play.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, People, Serious

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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