Carine Roitfeld Quotes

I do love a bit of fashion. I grew up around a lot of it as my mum and dad had clothing stores so my mum was always designing a lot, and I definitely had that as an influence.

Fashion was more of a sideline for me. I did it for the money.

I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.

Like basketball, fashion is hard work.

'Fashion Star' has been an incredible platform to show America the amount of work and discussion that goes into each garment you see in a store.

Fashion design is an important part of the creative industry that means the most to women.

I really see myself continuing to design clothes, fragrances.

Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.

My mother was a fashion designer, and my father was a model.

I work in a hospital as a patient transporter to make ends meet for my three kids.

I like very much to put on fashion shows.

There are people I've worked with who have never understood how fashion works. They keep saying they love fashion, yet they've never actually grasped that this isn't yoghurt or a piece of furniture - products in the purest sense of the term.

I wanted to be a fashion designer.

When I decided to launch my first knitwear line, it was because I saw a void in the basics category. The editors were always looking for cool, fashion-forward tees and sweaters. So that's where I started.

I did Polyester, and I don't regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.

I am a fashion designer, so I guess that makes me an overpacker.

I have always been interested in health care and doing something that is dramatic.

Cuts of clothes and shapes of clothes are really important.

I had always been interested in fashion.

I would love to one day have my own line of clothes.

I do like to buy my own clothes because I like to support designers. I know the work that goes into it.

Designers may find the fashion business can shrivel up.

My only ambition was to have 10 children. Fashion was an accident.

I became a fashion designer to make clothes for the people, not to be a top couturier in the French tradition.

I grew up in a miniature village in the middle of the countryside in England, quite secluded from the outside world. I was always enamored by the fashion industry.