Carine Roitfeld Quotes

I think I was the first to show that a designer could be like a rock star, that people should love your fashion but also put your name together with your fashion.

Let's see: I'm into a whole bunch of different people - Alexander Wang... that's my dude.

I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to build some kind of lifestyle brand that was preppy and cool.

I honestly think that with our generation - Alex Wang, Prabal Gurung, Jason Wu, Christian Cota, Robert Geller - there's a different expectation of what our behavior should be. People expect designers to be good businesspeople and PR people, and I don't think partying is a part of that persona the way it used to be.

Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.

I don't think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it. If you look at any business, fashion being the most obvious, the aura, or the reality of the designer, is part of what creates it. It's true in luxury goods stores and in good food stores. It leaves a palpable sense that someone cares.

A poor logo doesn't mean a business will fail, and a good logo doesn't mean it will succeed - it just helps. Ultimately a good logo is something that people recognize instantly and relate to.

He works his business and manipulates and keeps himself in front of the world.

I don't approach fashion; fashion approaches me!

Anna Wintour doesn't deal with pictures; she is just doing PR and business, and she scares everybody.

I am not a celebrity. I work with celebrities, and it is very difficult. When a celebrity wears a dress, it's good for business, so brands fight for the red carpet. Me? I don't like it, because fashion becomes a job about dressing celebrities. And it's a bit boring.

I think a lot of people look to me as a sort of lifestyle icon.

I have often been criticised for doing an about-face from one season to the next - as has my wonderfully inspiring lady designer whom I love so much, Miuccia Prada - but that is what I love about fashion.

It's all about brand exposure, building your brand, building your image and just getting to that next level as an athlete.

We have this perceived illusion of what the fashion designer does. As an industry, we make it out that this one individual changes the entire face of the earth. I have never said 'me'; it's always 'we.' I am just the big salesman.

I want to be fashion's Erykah Badu. What I admire about her is her timelessness and her fearless approach.

Donatella Versace has been a renegade. Just an incredible, artistic person.

I want to be like a Wendy Murdoch or a Georgina Chapman.

I am Marc Jacobs by birth, but we are Marc Jacobs by the company that we built.

Yeah, every artist I think should look at themselves as a brand because the more appealing your brand is, the more money you can make off your brand.

I'm constantly obsessing about brand. I think of my books in terms of brand. I think of my blog articles in terms of branding. How does it fit my branding? I think in terms of demographics.

Donna Karan is a professional, of course, and you have to respect her opinion.

I don't want my own shoe. That is something I have never wanted. If anybody is pitching that, I would say no. I feel like that is the only thing that limits me, being a signature athlete, because you have to wear your signature shoe all of the time. I don't want no parts of that.

Personally, I don't think of myself as a style icon. It's basically because the public loves me so much.

When they ask who is your biggest influence, I always say Pharrell: whether it is music or fashion, I'm a big fan.