Carine Roitfeld

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

You can be beautiful with big breasts; you can be beautiful in your 40s. If you don't have perfect ankles, still you can move your legs in a certain way and look very sexy.

Sometimes, when you go to airport and look at the people, you see the worst looks - but the worst looks can give you more ideas than the best looks.

When you get older, you have to stay a bit rock n' roll so that young people will still be interested in you. The way you move, the way you talk, maybe the way you have your hair in your face a little bit - this keeps you interesting.

Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.

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

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.

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.

When you have the baby, there is no BlackBerry, no computer; you just have the baby on your stomach, and your heart is beating the same time as the baby's. It's very nice.

I'm still like a butterfly going from one job to another job. But it's quite lovely - I hope to keep this freedom, to have fun.

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!'

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

Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.

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

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.

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

I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.

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.

To me, makeup is fashion and vice versa. What I dress and what I wear always needs to work with my makeup, which is usually the same anyway.

I never like to wear too much makeup, and sometimes the best makeup is when it's not too perfect. I like to sometimes apply my makeup with my fingers.

I don't have a big appetite. I don't eat a lot, to be honest - never. I'm a bit like a little bird, picking all day long, but I'm not getting pasta or getting all those things, you know?

I think I have character, and that is what people like in me.

I'm not bad-looking, but I'm not a beauty, either.

You can be covered and be very sexy. It's not what you show; it's what you have in mind, the way you cross your legs, the way you talk to people.

I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.

I think beauty can be everywhere.

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

I have a couture body.

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

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

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

Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a stylist. They are two very different jobs.

The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.

People always say, 'You look like Iggy Pop.'

In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.

Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.

Just because someone is holding a gun doesn't make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who is holding it.

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

Fashion is one big family.

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

London Fashion Week isn't the most organised, but I don't mind that. It's such an exciting place - it's small and cool.

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

It's interesting to know how much you are worth.

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 am not mean at all; I am not tough at all.

It's funny, everything is so much easier when you do it yourself.

Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.

When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.

I have a lot to say about fashion - not just about fashion, but beauty, art.

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