Carine Roitfeld Quotes

I really want to get into designing my own business suit. I've designed a couple suits for myself that I've worn in the past, and I have a good idea of what I want and need to use.

Designing bridal is perfect for me, because black is my least favorite color, if you could call it a color.

Like most people, I used to wear clothing off the rack. But having them fitted to me makes a really big difference, especially with pieces like a cocktail dress. Little nips and tucks can take 10 pounds off you.

Fashion is more about taste than money - you have to understand your body and tailor clothes to your needs; it's all about the fit. I do the alterations myself - I'm quite a seamstress - it's the influence of my Hungarian mother.

Fashion is a good job for a young girl. I like clothes - I like to play with clothes. I like DIY; I like to make outfit.

I wanted clothing that I couldn't find, so I decided to make it.

The thing I learned about suits is that they only fit you for about a week after you've had them tailored.

We are actors who show up for work in our sloppy gear, and we've got this extraordinary tailor. It's someone else who's done the design; someone else who's cut the suit; someone else who's measured it. Basically, your job is to just wear it.

I might not the best seamstress, I might not know how to sew, but I know how to make a garment look like a million dollars.

I like to take my time when I'm designing and constructing outfits.

Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.

I can make 10 jackets of the same colour, same two pockets and same length, that will look like 10 completely different jackets when you put them on. It's about the way they are cut - it makes them look and feel completely different and move differently, and that's a never-ending study. People who wear my clothes will know exactly what I mean.

I'll use men's shirts, I love men's shirts, but you have to get them altered because they're shaped differently and I like them to be fitting.

Even buying a swimsuit is super difficult. And then making one is even harder.

I want a woman to feel the cut of the scissors in the clothes.

You can tailor garments all you want, but if it doesn't fit in the arms or legs, it never will.

I often take things I find in vintage crawls and hand them to a very good seamstress, who then replicates them and makes a more robust version in different colors, with a pocket for my mic pack.

I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes.

I'm ready to do womenswear. You've always got to be inspired by something new - women have so much more shape and I'm about finding what to engineer around those shapes.

Tailoring your clothes makes all the difference.

Over the years, I've learned that you can have fun with the fabrics and other elements, but if it's not tailored right, you'll blow it.

I'm not a big fan of shopping. I certainly am a fan of clothes, and especially people that put time into the construction of them.

You cannot choose beforehand what you want to use for a suit. You may want to change your mind a dozen times before you are through.

In Paris, we call the people who make clothing 'couturiers' - they develop new clothing items - but actually, the work of designing is to make something that works in real life.

I like doing stuff like, for instance, in the 'Leave the Night On' video, I had on a plain white T-shirt. I just wanted to do something to it to make it a little different, so I just cut a big strip out of the side, from the shirttail up to my armpit, and cut a big red strip out of another T-shirt and just sewed it in there.