287 Quotes by Carine Roitfeld

Paris is mostly retired people - I love it, and it's a beautiful city, but it's quite slow.

I think the first picture taken is often the best one.

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.

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.

What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?

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.

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

I do go very fast. I think if I don't go fast it's going to be boring. That's what photographers need to do.

I think that something needs to be weird in order to have a real beauty.