Carine Roitfeld Life Quotations

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.

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

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.

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.

Becoming a grandmother brought me back to the things I forgot to love. Nature. Playing. Seeing animals. A new way of looking. A rejuvenation. A cycle of life - things come back to you. The details.

As you get older, you see life is very short, so you have to appreciate more and more and to enjoy it.

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