Carine Roitfeld… Irreverent…

Carine Roitfeld…

“Belle de Jour”…

Vogue…

French Vogue’s… former editor-in-chief…

Writer…

“Drop-dead-chic…

French icon“…

Carine…

With her smudged… smoky eyes… long dark hair tumbling around her dramatic face…

Killer heels…

Tighter than tight… skirt…

Androgynous edge…

“Je ne sais quoi“… attitude…

That… only a Parisian woman possesses…

“Elle… m’a toujours… fascinée”…

Fascinates… and rivets me…

Roitfeld…

The un-negotiable darling… of global bloggers… and “hungry” photographers…

A close collaborator of Mario Testino… Tom Ford…

A muse… to Karl Lagerfeld…

Is… a hugely influential Stylist and world trend-setter…

A contemporary “Diana Vreeland“… (another favourite)… and an enviable example for women of a certain age…

“Carine, and her vision of French Vogue, embodies all that the world likes to think of as Parisian style: a sense of chic that’s impeccable and sometimes idiosyncratic and which forever lives on a moonlit street as seen through the lens of Helmut Newton.” – Anna Wintour

“If you close your eyes and imagine the ideal French woman, it would be Carine Roitfeld.” – Karl Lagerfeld

Carine… announced her resignation from French Vogue on December 17, 2010…

Having catapulted… the legendary “magazine“… to heady heights…

She… has emerged… unscathed by her departure…

“Au contraire“… she’s launched her amazing book… “Irreverent“… which celebrates her work at French Vogue… and is planning a bi-annual fashion magazine… which we’ll be awaiting with baited breath and excitement…

Carine Roitfeld…

The quintessential… “femme parisienne“…

Born September 19, 1954… in Paris… in the posh, and very bourgeois area of Auteuil… in the 16th arrondissement… 

Her father… Jacques Roitfeld (a successful Ukranian film producer)… was her idol…  her mother... she describes as… a “very classic French woman“… her brother… ” a beautiful man”… works in film and TV…

She lives… with her partner of thirty years… Christian Restoin…  They have… two beautiful children… Julia and Vladimir…

Adored by designers and photographers… Roitfeld is enthusiastic… chic, light-hearted, yet hard-working… sexy and feminine… but not threatening…

Olivier Zahm… the editor of her book “Irreverent” ” said…

“She wields a clever blend of elegance and bourgeois convention, on the one hand… provocation and freedom on the other”…

Amanda Harlech… describes Carine as a Stylist…

“She’s at the top of what she does – it’s all about the glimpse of a bra and a beautiful silk stocking… something a little bit rebellious”…

Tom Ford declared…

“I was in love the moment I first laid eyes on her”… “what I love most about Carine is her independence. She is so confident and sure of who she is… whatever she puts on… women want”…

Carine Roitfeld…

A foxy lady…

A modern-day… Style Icon…

Serenely sailing… through her fifties… (soon to be a grandmother)… is looking fabulous…

She prefers… understated elegance…

“I get an award for being best dressed, but at the end of the day, I’m not Daphne Guinness… I don’t like people to look at me for my dress… The letter… is more important than the envelope”…

So true…

Roitfeld… with her powerful allure, her individuality… more beguiling and mesmerising than any… much younger model…

Intelligent… in control… seems to believe in the wise saying… “to thine own self be true”…

Or simply… “be yourself“…

And yet she confides…

“I will always be irreverent in my own way, but I will try to use new approaches… I will try to do something totally different now… because I don’t want to get bored of myself, or to bore my readers, so if I learn something new today, I will use it.  I have to reinvent myself”…

Carine…

Glamorous… sophisticated…

Attractive…

Compelling…

Elegantly sexy…

Is having… a magical moment in Fashion…

I… for one…

Admire her…

Enormously…

Carine Roitfeld…

“Bonne chance… et…

à bientôt“…

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