Fashion Quotes by 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

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

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

I think you are born chic. You cannot be chic. It is something you cannot learn.

— Carine Roitfeld

Clothing is always a tool that helps me take a picture. But it's never about the clothing.

— Carine Roitfeld

I want to be the Joan of Arc of fashion. I want to be the link between the runway and the real…

— Carine Roitfeld

I actually love the 'rappers look,' with the saggy pants and oversized clothes. It's very deliberate.

— Carine Roitfeld

I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I…

— 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…

— 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…

— Carine Roitfeld

I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it's my way of thinking. So I love Azzedine Alaia, because…

— Carine Roitfeld

Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or…

— Carine Roitfeld

I think the 'Harpers Bazaar' woman is not a fashion victim; she understands fashion but is not a victim, you know.

— Carine Roitfeld

Each woman needs to know herself and think that the clothes are here to make her more beautiful, because the person is…

— Carine Roitfeld

We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come…

— Carine Roitfeld

Like this. The wristbands you get at nightclubs next to all the bracelets? It's always the details that give me the ideas.…

— Carine Roitfeld

I get an award for being the best dressed, but at the end of the day I'm not Daphne Guinness. I don't…

— 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

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 think it's good to have surprises in fashion because we always see the same things.

— Carine Roitfeld

Each morning, you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.

— Carine Roitfeld

My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.

— Carine Roitfeld

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

— Carine Roitfeld

I do think fashion is fun! Much more than people think.

— Carine Roitfeld

When a designer creates, he looks at the world around him.

— Carine Roitfeld