Fashion Quotes by Carine Roitfeld

For me, fashion is not about reality.

— Carine Roitfeld

Fashion is a hard business.

— Carine Roitfeld

Fashion is one big family.

— Carine Roitfeld

Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.

— Carine Roitfeld

When I don't know what to wear, I wear black lace.

— Carine Roitfeld

Even though jeans suit me, I never wear jeans.

— Carine Roitfeld

When in doubt, wear a suit.

— Carine Roitfeld

Fashion is a completely international business.

— Carine Roitfeld

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

— Carine Roitfeld

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

— Carine Roitfeld

If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'

— Carine Roitfeld

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

— Carine Roitfeld

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

— Carine Roitfeld

Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.

— Carine Roitfeld

I know that people in fashion and people in general hate to be filmed.

— Carine Roitfeld

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

— Carine Roitfeld

Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a…

— Carine Roitfeld

To me, makeup is fashion and vice versa. What I dress and what I wear always needs to work with my makeup,…

— 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…

— Carine Roitfeld

My mom read French 'Elle' when I was a little girl, and so, when I was 15 or 16, I said, 'I…

— Carine Roitfeld

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

— Carine Roitfeld

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.

— Carine Roitfeld

Amidst globalisation, trends are becoming worldwide, so it's important to take a unique approach to what fashion has to offer. Be yourself…

— Carine Roitfeld

The first Chanel jacket that I saw - that I knew was Chanel - was on TV. It was on Mrs. Kennedy…

— Carine Roitfeld

I am not a good professional of fashion. I am not an expert about how clothes are constructed or the history of…

— Carine Roitfeld

I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't…

— Carine Roitfeld

I am not a celebrity. I work with celebrities, and it is very difficult. When a celebrity wears a dress, it's good…

— Carine Roitfeld

I discovered the slip dress, which I think is one of the more French things because when you take off your clothes,…

— Carine Roitfeld

Each time I’m coming out of my apartment I remember the quote of Coco Chanel; she said, ‘Each time I’m leaving my…

— Carine Roitfeld

Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He…

— Carine Roitfeld

When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah,…

— Carine Roitfeld

I think that life has brought a lot to fashion, and fashion brings plenty to life. I took my children on photo…

— Carine Roitfeld

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…

— Carine Roitfeld

Maybe it's good a thing that people see me this way [in the documentary film]. They expect to see me with the…

— Carine Roitfeld

I have a lot to say about fashion - not just about fashion, but beauty, art.

— Carine Roitfeld

Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.

— Carine Roitfeld

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

— Carine Roitfeld

I love black lingerie and white shoes, and I love knives.

— Carine Roitfeld

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

— Carine Roitfeld

Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't.

— Carine Roitfeld