Blogs are quite a new development – now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it’s a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself. – Carine Roitfeld
I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international. – Carine Roitfeld
I’m not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success. – Carine Roitfeld
Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless, but there is a lot of work. It’s exactly like doing ballet. It’s hours and hours, but when you go onstage, it’s just the pleasure of dancing. – Carine Roitfeld
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 miss my parents. But still, my granddaughter, my daughter, my grandma, you know, so it’s very important for me. You lost your parents, but a new baby comes. It’s like the cycle of fashion. – Carine Roitfeld
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. – Carine Roitfeld
I think it is good when something can stay interesting for a long time. It’s not just a trend for one month. – Carine Roitfeld
I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It’s good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young. – Carine Roitfeld
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? – Carine Roitfeld
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. – Carine Roitfeld
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. – Carine Roitfeld
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. – Carine Roitfeld
It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good. – Carine Roitfeld
The hair and makeup is very important in a fashion picture. When I create a look for a girl, it starts with the makeup. Sometimes it takes an entire day to find the look. – Carine Roitfeld
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. – Carine Roitfeld
I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one. – Carine Roitfeld
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. – Carine Roitfeld
If you are a reader of ‘Harper’s Bazaar,’ to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you love fashion, you love travel, you love art, you love music. – Carine Roitfeld