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 eyeslong dark hair tumbling around her dramatic face

Killer heels…

Tighter than tight skirt

Androgynous edge…

Je ne sais quoi“… attitude

Thatonly a Parisian woman possesses

“Elle… m’a toujours… fascinée”…

Fascinates… and rivets me

Roitfeld

The un-negotiable darling… of global bloggers… and “hungryphotographers

A close collaborator of Mario TestinoTom Ford

A muse… to Karl Lagerfeld

Is… a hugely influential Stylist and world trend-setter

A contemporaryDiana 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

Carineannounced her resignation from French Vogue on December 17, 2010…

Having catapulted… the legendarymagazine“… 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 photographersRoitfeld 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-dayStyle Icon

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

She prefersunderstated 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

Intelligentin controlseems 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…

Ifor one

Admire her…

Enormously

Carine Roitfeld

“Bonne chance… et…

à bientôt“…

a.

One thought on “Carine Roitfeld… Irreverent…

  • 10th January 2012 at 9:47 pm
    Permalink

    ALTHOUGH ITS CLEAR THAT CARINE ROITFELD IS AN INTERESTING FIGURE IN THE FASHION WORLD, BUT YOUR POST ON HER WAS SO SUPERB THAT FRANKLY IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU WERE TO HAVE YOUR OWN MAGAZINE, I WOULD GO OUT AND BUY IT AND EVERY EDITION IN A FLASH.

    Reply

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.