Carine Roitfeld Named Global Fashion Director of Harper’s Bazaar
Harper’s Bazaar is thrilled to announce style icon Carine Roitfeld as global fashion director for the magazine. Roitfeld will produce a limited amount of editorials for the magazine to run across world wide editions, it was announced today by David Carey, president, Hearst Magazines, and Duncan Edwards, president and CEO, Hearst Magazines International. Roitfeld will collaborate with Stephen Gan, creative director of Harper’s BAZAAR U.S., on several stories a year starting in the March 2013 issues of all 26 international editions of BAZAAR, which have a combined audience of more than 11.3 million worldwide. The special project may include covers of many of BAZAAR’s international editions. Roitfeld, who has recently published the first edition of her new magazine CR Fashion Book, will give her own unique take on the key fashion trends each season. Edwards commented, “This collaboration marks the first time anything like this has been done and we’re very excited about what Carine will bring to BAZAAR editions around the world. She is a visionary in the fashion world and we are so happy to be working with her.” Carey said, “Hearst is the world’s largest publisher of monthly magazines, and we’re always looking for powerful ideas that can play out across the globe. Carine is one of the fashion world’s most influential tastemakers and we look forward to seeing what she does with BAZAAR. Her contributions will help lead the company to new heights on the creative front.” “I am thrilled to be contributing to BAZAAR, a brand with a rich history of creativity,” said Roitfeld. “Working with Stephen and a roster of talented photographers will be a wonderful collaboration and one that will give these stories a truly global audience.” Roitfeld will continue to work on her various other projects including her newly launched biannual, CR Fashion Book.
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Im going to have to invest in a subscription of Harpers Bazaar now i think carine will do great at harpers bazaar, shes fiercely talented imo. And hopefully she'll bring the magazine to life, because it's been so stale and boring for years now.
26 different editions and limited amount of collaborations... i see what she will be very payed wihout actually doing nothing) coz that position is all about making ideas out of the air... and also i am very worried about how could i get all bazaar editions with her styling plus keep eyes on em...hardwork
Elle France October 10th, 1988
"Eloge De La Simplicite"
Model: Unknown
Photographer: Dominque Issermann
Stylist: Carine Roitfeld
Hair: Romain
Makeup: Helena Rubinstein
Elle France July 18th, 1988
"La Guinguette...AuBord De L'eau"
Models: Carla Bruni & Unknowns
Photographer: Friedmann Hauss
Stylist: Carine Roitfeld
Hair: Guillaume
Makeup: Thibault Vabre
Elle France February 18th, 1991
"Gaultier, Le Ticket Chic"
Model: Unknown
Photographer: Philip Newton
Stylist: Carine Roitfeld
Hair: Juilen d'Ys
Makeup: Pascale Guichard
Elle France January 22nd, 1990
"Mode Seduction"
Model: Dana Patrick?
Photographer: Pamela Hanson
Stylist: Carine Roitfeld
Hair: Orlando Pita
Makeup: Jo Stretell
Elle France August 13th, 1990
"L'Envol De La Mousseline Noire"
Model: Unknown
Photographer: Chico Bialas
Stylist: Carine Roitfeld
Hair: Jean-Marc Maniatis
Makeup: Michel Delarue
Elle France February 23rd 1991
"Défilé de beautés"
Model: Heather Stewart Whyte
Photographer: Chico Bialas
Stylist: Carine Roitfeld
Hair: Julien d'Ys
Makeup: Régine Bedot
Elle France November 19th 1990
"Velvet Underground"
Model: Lorraine Pascale, Emma Sjoberg & Unknown
Photographer: Mario Testino
Stylist: Carine Roitfeld
Hair: Barnabé
Makeup: Diane Kendal
Elle France February 11th 1991: Claire Dhelens by Mario Testino
"Sept Tendances Capitales Ou Les Chocs De L'Avant-Garde"
Models: Claire Dhelens & Unknowns
Photographer: Mario Testino
Stylist: Carine Roitfeld
Hair: Marc Lopez
Makeup: Régine Bedot
"La Mascaramania"
Models: Claudia Mason & Unknown
Photographer: Philip Newton
Stylist: Carine Roitfeld
Hair: James Bratshow
Makeup: Delphine Ehrhart
Carine Roitfeld Elaborates on Role at Harper's Bazaar
THE VIEW FROM CARINE: In early October, Hearst scored a splashy coup when it convinced Carine Roitfeld, who seemed elated to be free of corporate constraints after her decade at French Vogue, to join the company as the global fashion director of Harper’s Bazaar. The job has her styling four fashion stories a year that will appear simultaneously across all international editions. But upon the announcement, it was also somewhat vaguely defined. Would individual brand editors get veto power over Roitfeld’s shoots? What if Glenda Bailey found one of the stories too risque?
Roitfeld appeared Monday night for a Q&A at the French Institute Alliance Française in New York and made it clear she won’t be reporting to Bailey or any other editors in chief. “I’m not working with [Bailey],” she said, while noting that the long-time editor in chief is “a very important part of Bazaar.” Roitfeld said she’ll develop her stories and then they’ll be given to all the international magazines. “I’m always independent. No boss,” she said. She explained she’ll be mostly working with Duncan Edwards, president and chief executive officer of Hearst Magazines International.
Edwards said Roitfeld’s mandate is to create stories that can reverberate globally. “It’s an independent story that’s really for Bazaar rather than one individual edition,” he said. “You can’t have one editor editing that story.”
Even if the brand takes precedence over an individual creative vision, editors will reap the rewards, he said.
“Of course, the magazine belongs to Hearst, not to Glenda,” he said. “It’s a smart and clever thing for all of our editors to buy into because every edition of the magazine gets the benefit of this global story, and which magazine wouldn’t want a story styled by Carine?”
Edwards wanted Roitfeld to come to Hearst soon after she left Condé Nast in January 2011, and approached her that September.
It took a year of pursuit to get her to agree.
During the Q&A, Roitfeld made clear she did not appreciate the regular fights with Condé management over her magazine’s provocative spreads. She seems to relish her freedom, taking on new advertising campaigns and started her own magazine, CR Fashion Book, where she has wide latitude to do whatever she wants and embraces her reputation as the queen of porno chic. There wasn’t an immediate impulse to work with another behemoth publisher.
But Edwards won her over with the idea that the job seems to be the first of its kind, and gives her, also for the first time, a large readership spanning several countries. “Can you imagine for me to go from so small to have so many readers?” she said.
He also assured her she wouldn’t have to give up her lucrative consulting and freelance projects. At Hearst, Roitfeld is just another freelancer, Edwards said.
With such a broad portfolio, Roitfeld understands she has limitations. “When you’re talking to a wider scale of readers, you think a bit differently,” she said. But she’s convinced her personality can break through. “You will recognize me in the pictures,” she said. “My way, my castings, the way I put clothes together, it’s very me."