Carine Roitfeld Quotes

Entrepreneurs have a natural inclination to go it alone. While this do-it-yourself spirit can help you move forward, adding an element of collaboration into the mix can make you unstoppable.

This work is the result of a meeting of minds from two of the most successful men in their respective fields.

Kickstarter was already up and going when I got the Fellowship. Spending time with the other Fellows was about camaraderie, and I talked to a lot of amazing and creative people.

My name is out there right now. I'm creative and innovative. I should capitalize on it.

You know how the Beatles broke off - they all did their solo projects and they came back together and they were even stronger!

I'm always working with amazing people. They're just kind of put in my path.

I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with.

When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and hairdresser I've ever worked with.

Karl Lagerfeld and Tom Ford are both geniuses.

Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.

I feel so lucky to partner with Awesomeness to bring my story to the big screen. I started out making videos as a way to connect and am thrilled by the opportunity to share one of the most exhilarating years of my life.

I firmly believe that success lies in the combination of both talent and business savvy, and that the magic comes through partnership between both.

I wouldn't be who I am without my husband, who handled the business end of Donna Karan so I could be creative.

It was so much fun working with Rimmel. We're inspired by many of the same things: fashion, color, sounds, style, life in general, and London in particular.

Both labels are super awesome, with super awesome people who want to get stuff done. The biggest difference is that Sub Pop is already established, but working with Burger seems like we're part of something. They're growing, and I'm growing with them. They're my friends, and we're doing it together.

Every day working for Rachel Zoe, Inc. is surreal for me. I have the amazing opportunity to be around beautiful clothes and smart and talented people. Whats not to love!?

It's an exciting thing to build a relationship with a talent that's outside of your comfort zone.

Creating something new is the difficult part. To make it and build it and get everyone to follow? Amazing.

There's no question about it: the best theatre is collaboration. The best anything is collaboration.

You can't do seven successful albums and just hate each other. Our yin and yang, and night and day, is what made us great when we went into the studio.

I know I wasn't allowed to go to fashion school; I can't cut a dress like Galliano, right? But I had enough wherewithal to go to that studio on my first collection and bring Kim, [stylist] Christine Centenera, Ian Connor, Theophilus London, Virgil Abloh...they all came down to [Vetements/Balenciaga designer] Demna Gvasalia's studio that night and hung out.

Fashion is like life. It needs fear and uncertainty if you are to move forward.

Nothing is quite what you expect with Gucci. I'm just happy to be a part of their adventure.

You put together two people who have not been put together before; and sometimes the world is changed, sometimes not. They may crash and burn, or burn and crash. But sometimes, something new is made, and then the world is changed. Together, in that first exaltation, that first roaring sense of uplift, they are greater than their two separate selves. Together, they see further, and they see more clearly.

It all starts with a great idea and teamwork.