Carine Roitfeld - Editor-in-Chief, Vogue Paris (March 2005 - June 2009)

[Dkammern]

although it looks great on her and very modern, the balenciaga dress doesnt seem to follow carine's usual style of dark (or subtle) sophistication and it makes it look a bit costume-y or at least not for "everyday work"... too dressed up, no?
... i'm starting to think she just wore that because she was on tv... hmmmm

[vavavinny]

^You're probably right. I do not seeing Carine wearing that dress around the streets of Paris. I think she just wanted to be represented on TV in something STRAIGHT off of the runway to reiterate the idea that she is so powerful and important, which is what the Revealed seems to be pointing at over and over again. I don't think it looks costume-y on her. She wears it with elegance.

[nyc_art_style]

Originally Posted by VogueParisLover

About the times of the show: What are they? I don't know what to record because Revealed isn't a program. Does anyone know what it would be apart of? Like American Morning or CNN Newsroom. I live in the Central time zone in the US. I'm not good at exact names so... Thanks in advance. Plus, where did you get the new screen shots from? Is there a new video? Again, Thanks.

i just checked my tv guide and it says larry king live is on at the time the show on carine is suppose to come on.

[VogueParisLover]

OK, I'll record that then. Hopefully it's on.

[TheElitist]

Originally Posted by vavavinny

That Balenciaga dress caught my eye when I saw it because of its totally gorgeous peacock-esque colors and velvet dots. I'm SO happy to see Carine in it! She looks STUNNING and it looks better on her than it did on the runway. It's so great that she gets to wear straight-off-the-runway garments. She's always 5 steps ahead of everyone !

hmm. does it mean that for one to be "5 steps ahead of everyone", you have to wear straight off the runway clothes?

[cigalechanta]

I posted this last week: following carine, a special

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video...feld.promo.cnn


sorry, it looks like they removed it.

[vavavinny]

Originally Posted by TheElitist

hmm. does it mean that for one to be "5 steps ahead of everyone", you have to wear straight off the runway clothes?

Not necessarily. But she always has her finger on the pulse of fashion in my opinion, whether she is wearing brand new fashions or styles from seasons past.

[MissMagAddict]

Originally Posted by nyc_art_style

i just checked my tv guide and it says larry king live is on at the time the show on carine is suppose to come on.

Revealed is on CNN International. If you don't have it then you can watch it online.

Here's the link again to the preview...

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video...feld.promo.cnn

[BerlinRocks]

thanks MMA ....
so has it been aired or not ?
and how was it ?

i'm not seeing the parts some people screencaptured in this preview ....

[MissMagAddict]

Originally Posted by BerlinRocks

thanks MMA ....
so has it been aired or not ?
and how was it ?

No it hasn't aired yet...

CNN Revealed follows the fiercely fashionable editor-in-chief of French Vogue as she stalks fashion weeks in Paris and New York for the latest incarnation of style. Coming up on Revealed: Carine Roitfeld
ALL TIMES GMT
Wednesday, March 18: 0930, 1830
Saturday, March 21: 0830, 1900
Sunday, March 22: 0530, 1830
Monday, March 23: 0400

source | edition.cnn

[MissMagAddict]

source | edition.cnn

Roitfeld: American Vogue job 'not for me'

PARIS, France (CNN) -- The backstage gossip at recent fashion shows wouldn't be complete without rampant speculation about who is likely to replace esteemed American Vogue Editor in Chief Anna Wintour.

Wintour has yet to announce any plans to retire but her advancing age -- she's 60 this year -- has stoked speculation that after more than 20 years in the role it might be time to leave.

One name touted as a possible replacement is Carine Roitfeld, the highly respected editor in chief of Vogue Paris.

Roitfeld is accustomed to the speculation, describing it as "frustrating." She told CNN she hadn't been offered the job and even if she was she probably wouldn't take it.

"It's a bit like for an actor. Do you want to go to Hollywood or do you want to stay here in Paris and do the cinema I like to do?," Roitfeld said. "I think I prefer to stay here in Paris."

A fixture at the U.S. title since 1988, Wintour has a fearsome reputation, mostly courtesy of the 2006 film starring Meryl Streep, "The Devil Wears Prada."

The film is based on a book penned by a former assistant at American Vogue who has denied suggestions Wintour was the inspiration for the demanding and odious lead character.

Roitfeld is anxious not to create any friction between her and her U.S. counterpart, telling CNN "I think Anna does a great job... I think she's a great person."

She said she would be honored to be asked to fill Wintour's shoes, but pointed out that "it's a very different job."

"I'm very happy at French Vogue to be able to do everything -- almost everything -- I want in the magazine," she said. "It would be too political at American Vogue for me. And I'm not sure I'm talking enough good English to work there."

At Vogue Paris, Roitfeld knows her readers. They are a select group of incredibly stylish and wealthy women who are thrilled rather than alienated by unconventional ideas.

The best-selling edition so far, in August 2003, featured French actress Sophie Marceau on the cover smoking a cigarette.

At French Vogue, there's less pressure to appeal to the masses. Its circulation of some 139,000 is dwarfed by the million plus readers of American Vogue.

Fashion shoots are about fantasy. There's no imperative to make any clothes they feature wearable. If it's unusual and innovative, then it's in.
With just 25 staff, Roitfeld describes the team at French Vogue as like a family. And that's how she prefers it.

Having said that, she told CNN she wouldn't dismiss any offer out of hand.

"Of course I would consider it because it would be ridiculous not to consider such a huge position -- in terms of money and in terms of power," she said.

"But I'm very happy. It's very much a small team (in Paris). America is a huge team. I know because I've worked for them before. I think it's not for me."

Watch Revealed: Carine Roitfeld on CNN International this week at the times below:
Wednesday 18 March: 0830, 1730
Saturday 21 March: 0730, 1800
Sunday 22 March: 0430, 1730
Monday 23 March: 0300
(All times GMT)

[MissMagAddict]

source | edition.cnn

French Vogue to tighten its belt

PARIS, France (CNN) -- No one was expecting it, but there it was. The "f" word so rarely uttered in the world of high fashion had just slipped through the lips of one of the world's most stylish women.

"I think we need to become more frugal," says Carine Roitfeld, editor in chief of Vogue Paris. "Not on quality," she hastens to add, "just on organization."

The fashionista's favorite fashion editor is sitting on a leather chair in her sparse white office. The shelves are all but empty. There's no in tray on her desk and certainly no computer, "they're not my specialty," she shrugs.

An orange blossom candle twinkles in its glass casing and pictures stand -- some still in their wrapping -- against the wall.

She's been in this office for eight years but it looks like she moved in last week. She hasn't even had time to hang her pictures, and it's not hard to see why.

Every month, Roitfeld and her small team pull together what is considered to be the world's most fashion-forward magazine.

Vogue Paris may have a fraction of the circulation of its American stable mate -- 139,000 versus 1.3 million -- but what it lacks in numbers it makes up in prestige.

Still, Roitfeld recognizes that even the upper end of the magazine market is not immune to the deepest global recession in decades.

She's prepared to make cuts. And rather than begrudgingly canceling a coffee order or two, she's almost relishing a return to the pre-boom days when challenges were overcome with creativity rather than cash.
"It's become ridiculous," she tells CNN, explaining that where once eight people may have gathered around a table to discuss a photo shoot, now there are 25.

"Some things got too far away. There were people who were flying private jets -- we need to go back to reality.

"I don't want to take the money out of the beauty of the picture, I don't want to change the paper of the magazine, I don't want to change the materials, but we can do it another way."

"When it's more difficult you have to be more creative."

CNN's Revealed joined Roitfeld and five members of her team as they gathered round a glass table to choose the cover of the April edition of French Vogue.

It doesn't happen often -- usually the cover is a fait accompli -- but this time U.S. actress Scarlett Johansson has confused the issue by unexpectedly dying her hair.

"This cover, it was very difficult," Carine explains, "because we want people to recognize Scarlett and then she changed her hair color."

Three mock-ups lie on the table; different fonts, colors and wording cover Johansson's lascivious poses. It's clear which one Carine prefers and, rather predictably, it's her choice that will hit news stands this week.

"I think this is a Vogue image and I want to stick to being Vogue," she says of her decision. "The cover is like the publicity for your magazine. It's very important. We need the more appealing one, the more visible one."

Carine Roitfeld was a highly respected and well-connected fashion stylist with no experience in magazine editing when she took the job as editor-in-chief at Vogue Paris in early 2001.

She was already an old friend of renowned photographer Mario Testino; they met 25 years ago when both were yet to make their names. He's now Godfather to her two children, Vladimir and Julia, who are 28 and 27 respectively, and who both now live in New York.

Roitfeld and Testino later teamed up with U.S. designer Tom Ford during his first years as creative director at Gucci to reinvigorate the brand with an innovative advertising campaign.

Roitfeld was approached by Jonathan Newhouse, chairman of Conde Nast International to take the role at French Vogue.

During her time there, advertising revenue has increased almost 10 percent and circulation is up 27 percent. "It is probably a 'Carine effect'," concludes Xavier Romatet, the president of Conde Nast Publications, which owns Vogue magazine.

"Carine's probably the most creative person I've met in my life," he told CNN, describing her as a savvy business woman with a finely-tuned intuition as to what her readers want.

Roitfeld scoffs at suggestions that she has an acute business mind, saying "I think I'm a terrible business woman."

Still, what she's doing at French Vogue is obviously working and despite persistent rumors that she may soon announce her departure, she insists she has no plans, as yet, to leave.

"I'm very happy here," she tells CNN, before adding cryptically, "but I'm sure something new is going to happen in the next year."

Many in the industry have tipped Roitfeld to replace Anna Wintour in New York, should the esteemed editor of American Vogue choose to retire.

Roitfeld says she hasn't been approached about the job and if she was she probably wouldn't take it.

"Of course you'd be proud to be offered a job at this Vogue, because it's the biggest Vogue.

"But I'm not sure I'd be happy to work at the biggest Vogue. It's too big; you have to talk to too many different people. I'm very happy at French Vogue to be able to do everything -- almost everything -- I want to do in the magazine.

"Anyway my husband doesn't want to go," she adds later with a smile.
Roitfeld is anxious not to feed any speculation of a competitive rift between her and Wintour, referring to her U.S. counterpart as the "First Lady" of fashion.

"Anna does a great job... I respect her a lot," Roitfeld says.

[vogue28]

thank you MissMagAddict
Great read

[christrinity]

Thanks for those profiles, great reads, can't wait to see the CNN profile.
I'm shocked to see the circulation is so low though, I thought it would have been closer to the cirvulation of British Vogue (circa 220k). Does anyone know the circulation of Vogue Italia? I'd love to know how she compares to Franca's circulation figures!lol

[kasmslo]

I'm going to record this tomorrow... hopefully I get the times right.
Around 1:30 PM PST tomorrow it is aired to start, am I correct?