Quotes from Carine Roitfeld

I like to provoke. I'm very French.

I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.

I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.

Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

I am Parisian. I don't love the French.

I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.

People might think I'm very hard, what with my black make-up, my hair over my eyes, etc. My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.

The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.

I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.

The Russians are extreme people: they are generous but crazy at the same time. They always have something to say, and I really like that.

Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.

One time, a burglar came to my apartment, so we called the police. My son was here, so I think they left before they tried to steal something. So the police come to my apartment, and they say, 'Oh my God, did they steal everything?' I was like, 'No, it was like that!'

When everything is good, maybe I think it's the time to do something else.

I actually love the 'rappers look,' with the saggy pants and oversized clothes. It's very deliberate.

If you are a reader of 'Harper's Bazaar,' to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you love fashion, you love travel, you love art, you love music.

If I'm doing something in fashion, I will try to respect the 'laws' of the business, but I will try to keep my integrity and my respect for the designers and for my readers.

I think that something needs to be weird in order to have a real beauty.

Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.

'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.

Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.

I love the noise of my wooden clogs on my wooden floor. Dancers wear clogs. They're good for you.

I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.

When Tom Ford asked me to consult for Gucci, I had never consulted in my life. I didn't know what consulting was, and look, we made something amazing.