purely personal opinion, I have a feeling that the camera doesn't love her as much now, and she's been rather low-key compared to the Balmainia period.... Also, it seems like she's been ignored by peers like Olivier Zahm etc, it's easy to see that Zahm is def. pro-Carine, and Mario Testino (CR's buddy) can't do it too obviously if he still wants to work for VP.
Judging by the picture, the fashion world seems to be more on CR's side, and that EAlt only got Saglio to buddy with. Who can dig the dirt and find out the inner gossip? Since VP lost the spark in the last few issues (deliberately?), I look forward to the August issue-supposedly a revamp one under EAlt entire direction.
__________________ “I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it." Coco Chanel