Quotes from Carine Roitfeld

There are a lot of good men's magazines. In England, you have 'Arena Homme+' and 'Another Man;' and in France we have 'L'Officiel Hommes.' But all are looking similar.

I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.

Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.

When you have confidence, when you feel loved by people, you can tell them the truth. It's important that I can say the photo isn't beautiful or the photo shoot sucks.

I see girls who are so skinny on the catwalks, and I know so many of them destroy their lives and their family's lives.

I love if someone invites me to a restaurant, so I don't know if that's a feminist.

I want to be the Joan of Arc of fashion. I want to be the link between the runway and the real woman.

I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.

When you go to a show, Americans in New York are very proper, much more so than the French. Everything is perfect. Their hair, the nails, everything. The look. Everything is perfection.

I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It's good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young.

I get on well with models, and I like to treat them well.

I think it is good when something can stay interesting for a long time. It's not just a trend for one month.

Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.

The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.

People think I only wear new clothes, that I'm very trendy, but I like classic things on me, to mix with a trendy pair of shoes.

We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come across is perhaps the length of a skirt.

Paris is mostly retired people - I love it, and it's a beautiful city, but it's quite slow.

When you love fashion, there is no weekend. Everything just blends together.

Even though I love fashion, I prefer people to fashion. Fashion is to make the person comfortable in her body, itÂ's not something very serious, you get to play.

If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.

I love the free spirit in London.

A magazine is not just one person. And a fashion shoot is the same!

When I don't know what to wear, I wear black lace.

When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.