Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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There is always a bit of seduction to it when one person is clothed and the other is naked, which can be a little weird. Everybody should be naked. In that case, it would be easier. Let's do a huge naked photo shoot!
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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I have good legs, so I prefer my skirt lengths and my high heels. It's like my uniform.
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I think it's good that [my granddaughter] here because I lost my parents and now it's great that there's a new generation. And she's taught me new things that I've forgotten. Like, when you're on holiday and see what it's like to see a shell or go into the water for the first time.
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Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.
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I need a lot of black on my eyes and a little shot of vodka to be brave, because you're beautiful when you relax.
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Working on women and working on different ages and different shapes of bodies I love women. I love to spend more time with them.
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I think that when you're taking pictures with my principles, you can try anything. Dare to do a lot of things - dare with sexuality, dare to break taboos as long as it remains photogenic. As long as I find an elegance and beauty in it, I am not afraid to tackle anything.
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A magazine is not just one person. And a fashion shoot is the same!
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I love the free spirit in London.
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There are people who give you the confidence that you're lacking and once you have confidence, you're free and finally you can let out what's inside of you.
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I think the first picture taken is often the best one.
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Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.
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Enthusiasm is something so positive.
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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?"
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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You're not on your own. You're doing things with other people. This is very important for me.
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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.
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What a women reads makes her more attractive and more elegant than what she wears.
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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.
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When you have the baby, there is no BlackBerry, no computer; you just have the baby on your stomach, and your heart is beating the same time as the baby's. It's very nice.
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Beauty can be quite boring, especially if you're talking about beauty that doesn't last. And what lasts is exactly the thing that maybe wasn't pretty at first. It comes over time to be beautiful or interesting or exciting.
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A lot of rumours on the Internet are wrong and horrible.
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"Grandmother" doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
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Monsier Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.
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Once you start being a muse, you cannot stop being a muse.
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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.
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People always say, 'You look like Iggy Pop.'
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In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.
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I think that each women, whatever age, needs to recognise something good in her body. Someone has beautiful legs, someone has beautiful hair, someone else has beautiful décolletage or a beautiful waist or beautiful hands. Everyone has something great.
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