Quotes from Carine Roitfeld

We have the sort of beautiful older woman here in Paris. People like Loulou de la Falaise and Betty Catroux, all these beautiful looking women over 60... So there is culture here in France that even if you are older, you can stay beautiful.

To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.

When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.

People ask me 'Why you want to do another magazine - 10 years at 'Vogue,' a great magazine? Why do you want to make a new one? It's so difficult and there's already so many.' I wanted to do something new, bring a new vision.

You can't put yourself into competition with a magazine like 'Vogue.' You have to create something new, something different.

In my 10 years, I never put a girl that was too skinny in French 'Vogue.'

I made a big family when I was working at 'Vogue' for ten years, and I'm still friends with a lot of them.

'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.

French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.

I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.

'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'

'Vogue' is a bigger name than my name.

Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.

I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.

There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different.

People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.

My name has become a brand - it could be make-up, clothing, perfume.

When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.

I think that each woman, whatever age, needs to recognize something good in her body. Someone has beautiful legs, someone has beautiful hair, someone else has beautiful decolletage or a beautiful waist or beautiful hands. Everyone has something great.

It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.

I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.

Fashion is one big family.

If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.

Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.