Carine Roitfeld

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

“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.”

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

“Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.”

“My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.”

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

“I have good legs, so I prefer my skirt lengths and my high heels. It's like my uniform.”

“I was the muse of Tom Ford and Gucci for years, but that was a long time ago.”

“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.”

“Thinking differently is my strength.”

“If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.”

“I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.”

“Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless, but there is a lot of work. It's exactly like doing ballet. It's hours and hours, but when you go onstage, it's just the pleasure of dancing.”

“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.”

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

“I'm not a nostalgic person: I never look back; I always forget.”

“I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.”

“Even though jeans suit me, I never wear jeans.”

“When I left French 'Vogue,' New York welcomed me with a big, big hug.”

“When a designer creates, he looks at the world around him.”