Something to Read: An Interview with Carlyne Cerf De Dudzeele

I really loved this candid interview with super stylist Carlyne Cerf De Dudzeele, the brains behind that iconic VOGUE cover with Michaela Bercu in an embellished Christian LaCroix couture top and Guess jeans, inventor of high-low and the ‘arm party.’ She works wth V Magazine, and Mario (Testino) and Inez and Vinoodh. It’s almost as if you can hear her voice speaking as you read it off the page. From Fashionista.com, here are some of my favoruite quotes from Ms. De Dudzeele.

On wearing UGGS:

“I don’t care! I love these things. Nothing for me is démodé in the world. I do my own thing, I don’t care what people think. It’s just how to put things together. People have to try to think that trendy is chic, mais c’est pas vrai. It’s not true. It’s because they don’t have personal style. As soon as you know how to put yourself together, it’s perfect.”

On street style photography:

“Ridiculous. Because I remember, you know, Bill Cunningham, who was the first one, you never knew he was taking pictures of you. He was around you, but you never see him. But now it’s ridiculous. It’s all these people and they ask you to stop and pose. I mean, it should not be like this. The street–me, I love the real street, and this is not what I call the real street. They all dress to be photographed and I don’t think this is real. It’s fake! Like a lot of things today.”

On trends:

“I am myself. I ADORE what I do, I’m passionate and I have this inside. Nothing is fake, I just do things like I do it. Because I LOVE! You ask me now to work, I put everything together, bop bop bop bop bop. I am not someone who is infringed by trends, I HATE trends, hate, hate.”

On being successful in fashion:

Because I have this inside, I repeat! You need to be BORN with all this. It’s nothing you can LEARN. I see them all doing efforts to have a look, it doesn’t work! …