Carine Roitfeld Quotes

In the beginning, I thought it would be really glamorous, working in fashion. But it's actually quite hard. You don't even know half the stuff that goes on backstage.

A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.

I do think people see us on WWE so often as just characters. They forget we have real lives and we go through similar situations as the average person.

I was thrown into the fashion world, dating models - and you'd read about me dating a new starlet every month. That's just where my life was. But I've grown up a lot.

My career in fashion has been very much about sexuality and sex, and I think a lot of people think that's all I can do and what I am all about.

The last time a straight man worked in the fashion industry, we got a fanny pack.

People think you have this exciting and romantic life, because you project this exciting, romantic life on screen. But in reality you're just doing the same thing as everyone else - you know, sitting around watching TV with your gut hanging out, playing with your kid, or even sitting on the toilet. You know what's weird? Even I'm not that interested in my personal life any more.

I find most films about fashion terrible because they are caricaturish.

I never thought I was somebody that would be on the cover of magazines in fashions, wearing fashions. It's like not me. But that is what movie stardom entails.

Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

In fashion, you have to have perseverance. You have to do it again and again, but it's something that comes out of my heart, and I love it.

I don't ever think about being a straight man in fashion. It's fine from my perspective. There are a lot of straight men in fashion, believe it or not. But it's fine. Journalists seem to be really interested in it.

Some designers are so airy-fairy people can't connect with them. I hope people can relate to me, to a normal person who just happens to be a fashion designer, that people can take me as they find me. It's not the designer's job to care about what people think. Whatever else I've done, I've never tried to be something that I'm not.

Fashion is just really standing up in the forefront and it's being even mentioned at the same level as the music. I sort of feel like that's where it gets a little sketchy.

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

In fashion, we have a reputation for being such a façade, fake people, but none of the fashion people who I know are fake.

Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn't feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes.

I've never said I'm a fashion designer.

I don't know if I've got swept up. It's so shocking when you hear that Calvin Klein wants you for their new campaign. You're like "who me?". I guess you have to decide where you draw the line between you saying, this is fun, pretty and fabulous, and being over-exposed.

I think a lot of people would assume that my job is more about supermodels and naked ladies and all that, and no, it's just really about fashion, merchandise and customers. So the obviously sexy parts - you get to go to the fashion show and all that stuff. It's really just business. That's my story. I'm sticking to it.

You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!

I don't speak Italian, but I do speak Moschino.

The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.

I've worked with a ginormous number of people over the years. What happens when you've been around for a while, when you run into people whose work you've seen and liked and they have seen and liked your work, there's a sense of you kind of know each other even though you don't.

The "public" seems to have bought into this belief that life can, and should, be run without risk, that all accidents are avoidable, and that death is something that only happens to people who eat meat and smoke.