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In fashion, it’s always better to be an interesting person than a beautiful one. Character is much more fascinating than pure good looks.
Carine Roitfeld
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Carine Roitfeld
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 19
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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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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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I get an award for being the best dressed, but at the end of the day I'm not Daphne Guinness. I don't like people to look at me for my dress. The letter is more important than the envelope. But if you feel good in your envelope, then you will feel better about yourself.
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A magazine is not just one person. And a fashion shoot is the same!
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Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.
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I think you are born chic. You cannot be chic. It is something you cannot learn.
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Let the others have beauty. I've got the charisma.
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
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Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.
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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.
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Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.
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I love black lingerie and white shoes, and I love knives.
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I don't have problems with my weight, I don't change weight but I think when you're gaining in age your position has to be beautiful.
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I think that something needs to be weird in order to have real beauty.
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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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What I hope I would do is something new, but I still love print. I love to touch paper. I'm not sure if I will ever do a magazine again, but I have plenty of ideas on the subject.
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It’s funny, everything is so much easier when you do it yourself.
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