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" Her iconic style, however, isn&#146;t just seen in front of cameras. Roitfeld is one of the most photographed women in fashion and regularly tops best-dressed lists. Here, Roitfeld is our Fashion Insider, as she tells UK Bazaar about her look, her experimental phases and industry icons. Bazaar: Beyond an editor and a stylist, you&#146;re also a fashion icon to many women. How would you describe your look? Roitfeld: My look is very simple, after all these years. I know myself very well and I know what suits me &#150; I know my length of skirt, I know my type of jacket... It looks different, but when you look properly it&#146;s the same thing as always; a knee length skirt, I like all the same colour or all black, I always like high heels because I think it makes me taller. My hair always a bit in my face and a lot of black on my eyes; I didn&#146;t change it a lot in 30 years. Bazaar: No change at all? Roitfeld: Maybe just the length of my skirt is a bit longer than before, and, ok, I change my shoes quite often &#150; I love shoes &#150; and I&#146;m not really a bag lady, I don&#146;t shoot a lot of bags. Now, I quite like jewellery too and I try and put a bit more jewellery on me. But everything is quite simple and I don&#146;t want the picture of my look to seem like I&#146;m trying too hard. Each time I&#146;m coming out of my apartment I remember the quote of Coco Chanel; she said, &#145;Each time I&#146;m leaving my apartment or my hotel, I&#146;m looking at myself in the mirror and I take off one piece of my look. It&#146;s always one thing too much.&#146; And it&#146;s a bit the same, always I take off my scarf or I take off my bag or jewellery because I like it simple. Coco Chanel is a great consultant I think. Bazaar: What other sartorial advice can you pass on to Bazaar women? Roitfeld: I think that each women, whatever age, needs to recognise something good in her body. Someone has beautiful legs, someone has beautiful hair, someone else has beautiful d\u00E9colletage or a beautiful waist or beautiful hands. Everyone has something great. Me, I don&#146;t have a great d\u00E9colletage but I have a good leg, so I show my legs and my eyes &#150; these are my best parts. Each woman needs to know herself and think that the clothes are here to make her more beautiful, because the person is more important than the clothes. Even though I love fashion, I prefer people to fashion. Fashion is to make the person comfortable in her body, it&#146;s not something very serious, you get to play. Bazaar: Would you say you are a spontaneous dresser? Or are you very organised, planning what you&#146;ll wear? Roitfeld: No, I do so many things I cannot spend two hours in front of the mirror in the morning. Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour, after that it means one hour less to get ready. I do so many things &#150; so most of the time it&#146;s like a uniform. Of course, I buy new stuff; I love fashion, but I have a look now &#150; I don&#146;t change so much. It&#146;s a very French look; I love transparency, fitted dresses, simple, feminine, beautiful lingerie; this is what I really like. We are very lucky to be women, so even if we&#146;re wearing trousers, I always wear them with some lace underwear or a very feminine bra &#150; I like that. Bazzar: And when do you think you look your best? Roitfeld: I look better in the evening, not in the morning. You know when you have a party and you have some classics you keep going back to because they suit you&#133; I have some dresses from John Galliano when he was starting: one in beige, white and black and when I don&#146;t know what to wear I wear this dress and I know I will be very good looking. I have this old dress, all in in lace, that Tom Ford did for me when he as working at Saint Laurent and black lace is very good on me. When I don&#146;t know what to wear, I wear black lace. Sometimes I love very long and tight cut dresses from Rick Owens and that&#146;s good for my body.\u00A0 I know what&#146;s good for me, it&#146;s the reason I always dress the same, because I know! I need the waist and my clothes to be very tight because I am very skinny, I need a lot of black on my eyes and a little shot of vodka to be brave, because you&#146;re beautiful when you relax and a little shot of vodka is perfect for me. Bazaar: You say you know what you like now, but when you first fell in love with fashion were you very experimental? Roitfeld: It&#146;s funny, today I was thinking I would love to do a story as if I was twenty years old again; I was very brave, you know, very, very brave. I was wearing very tiny shorts [laughs], t-shirts and platforms and I was a bit crazy. I remember going to ski, and when you&#146;re 18 or 20 you&#146;re never cold; I was a very good skier so I would go in denim shorts and I was never cold because I didn&#146;t fall. I was quite weird when I was 20 &#150; my look was very tight and short and mini. So now I put my skirt a bit longer, I feel brave when I wear transparent [pieces] and black lace, and always wear it with a French twist. When I was 20, I didn&#146;t change my hair colour but I was very wild I would say, but it&#146;s good to be 20 and try different things. Bazaar: Do you have any style icons of your own? Roitfeld: No, there are a lot of people that are very chic. Like Diana Vreeland, she was never a beautiful woman but because she was so chic, she became an icon of fashion. But she&#146;s never someone I like to copy, and I never want to copy someone for their look. It&#146;s more about personality; my biggest icon is Liz Taylor because I don&#146;t think she had great taste but I loved her energy. I love the way she was thinking, she was a bit politically incorrect and she was happy and started to work with AIDS when it was not correct in Hollywood and founded amfAR. She married Richard Burton twice, she was travelling all the time with kids and animals and I love a free way of living, a free way of spirit and a generosity; that is someone I would like to be. Rather than Diana Vreeland or a very chic woman, personality is more important to me. Bazaar: Who else do you admire in the industry? Roitfeld: There are a lot of talented designers. Nicolas Ghesqui\u00E8re is a genius, or Rei Kawakubo; I think she&#146;s making shows just for the pleasure of making shows, whether it sells or not sells, she&#146;s not showing me any handbags, she is totally free. I love this sort of designer, when they become an artist. It makes me very, very happy. And there are photographers too that I really like because of their point of view on fashion or I love the way they like people. I love Bruce Weber, I think he&#146;s a genius photographer because he loves people, all kinds of people, and I think he is smart to be like that after all these years. It&#146;s like Azzedine Alaia; I ask him, &amp;quot;But Azzedine, now you&#146;re doing couture? And you said you&#146;re doing all the dresses on these women by yourself? How are you going to do that?&#146;&amp;quot; He said, &amp;quot;Oh, working on women and working on different ages and different shapes of bodies&#133; I love women. I love to spend more time with them.&amp;quot; And I love that point of view, I love people who are totally in what they&#146;re doing, they&#146;re not working to be a celebrity or to earn money. They just love working and their relationships with people. I love that kind of creativity. Bazaar: What&#146;s your ultimate luxury Carine? Roitfeld: I don&#146;t have a big family and we all live in different places on the planet. When we have all of us together on Christmas Eve, it was a big luxury. To have all the people you like, with all the time together, it&#146;s very rare and I don&#146;t know when it will be again. I&#146;m not married, because I&#146;m a very superstitious person in my Russian way, but I am with the same man. My daughter turned 32 and you can imagine how many years that is with the same person that still supports me and listens to me, this is a big luxe. To have a personal consultant and personal adviser, and a person you can talk with after 30 years and that is very rare. It&#146;s not bullshit it&#146;s very real. It&#146;s very honest. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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