Carine Roitfeld - Stylist

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i believe that to be a JOKE Emil...

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[Avant Garde]

I think imageshack should advertise their site by saying 'We Are Annoying'.It took me hours to scan and upload just 9 pictures , I'm going to make an O.D of aspirin right now. (but then again , I'm dumb and useless when it comes to computers)

http://img479.imageshack.us/my.php?image=carine84un.jpg

Thanks for the scans

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You need to sign up for an account, but if you download a (free) program, you can upload images directly from your comp to your account.

 

[edgestyle81]

Tom Ford is Missing

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[Miss Dalloway]

I really like her.But i dont now anything about her does anybody have her biography.Even dow i like her specially her style i think Anna Wintour is better editor love both work but Anna knows how two make fashion exciting withouat taking its splendor!

 

[Whitelinen]

^ Um... Ok then. I just think that Anna Wintour is too narrow-minded and conservative for fashion...she's the real charicature of a fashion editor. She takes herself far too seriously. Vogue US isn't about fashion anymore, it's about celebrities.

Even though I've been bored of the last issues of Vogue Paris, it's stylish, 'real' and about fashion over everything. Carine is definetily a good editor.

She has one of the best styles of the moment.

 

[Avant Garde]

[FONT=verdana, helvetica, arial]FRENCH PERSONAL STYLE:

[FONT=verdana, helvetica, arial]A look at CARINE ROITFELD, editor-in-chief French Vogue [/FONT]

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[FONT=verdana, helvetica, arial]A[FONT=verdana, helvetica, arial] ccording to WWD, the fashion muse of the moment (2002) is the editor-in-chief of French Vogue Carine Roitfeld. Actually Mme Roitfeld is an excellent example of chic French personal style that follows the golden rule of French chic: "Keep It Simple."

About the fashion editor, Robin Givhan writes in the Washington Post that Carine Roitfeld, the smoky-eyed editor of French Vogue, is this year's style icon:

Physically, Roitfeld is an unlikely role model. She has an angular, vaguely threatening appearance that is masculine and sexual in the manner of a young Charlotte Rampling. She favors black clothes and high heels that lace up and around the legs like gladiator formalwear. But her most disconcerting feature is a screen of brown hair that covers about half of her face.​

Actually I don't find Carine Roitfeld either particularly masculine or even vaguely threatening, but then perhaps I interpret the severity of some French personal style differently than the Washington Post's chief fashion writer (with whom I usually agree.) On the other hand, I have only seen Carine Roitfeld in photos, and I am almost sure that Robin Givhan has seen her in person at various Paris fashion events. A bit later in this article, I will give you a link to a photo of Carine Roitfeld and you can decide for yourself.

Also I do not find the screen of brown hair a "most disconcerting feature," possibily because I am old enough to have a mother who is old enough to remember the era of Veronica Lake, a sultry American type whose signature personal style was her hair covering about half of her face. People did not find Veronica's hair disconcerting. They found it sexy. On the other hand, sexy can be disconcerting.

Robin Givhan quotes Bloomingdale's Buyer Kal Ruttenstein saying that he believes that Carine Roitfeld's look is the look of the moment. "She's in her early forties and has kids, and I don't think models should be Twiggy and 17," Ruttenstein says.

Others are writing about Carine Roitfeld:

According to WWD, many of models on the Fall runways even looked like Carine - something that was also mentioned by Ruth la Ferla in an article in the Style section of the New York Times ("Do Straight-haired Women Have More Fun?"). As she put it, "Carine Roitfeld has made dead - straight hair her signature. Ms. Roitfeld's tresses, which cover half her face, have lately been copied on the runways."

According to Roitfeld, there is no great mystery to her look, which she claims takes a mere 10 minutes each morning to achieve. As she told WWD, "I'm always wearing the same sort of things, a black coat, a skirt - but I always put the accent on one exciting piece". The one exciting piece is usually a killer pair of heels. As she stated: "in a fashion shoot, shoes are very important. Shoes give the look. That and the hair."
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Unfortunately since the time I accessed this Sunday, March 17, 2002 article at the link http://www.lookonline.com/nyfashionreportsold.html it seems to have been taken off the server. At least that is the message I get when I try to follow the link to Fall/Winter 2002- It's a Wrap! You can try a Copy and Paste into your browser's URL line and see if you can access it. It's a good article with some interesting tips on saving money on fashion near the end.

The only photo Carine Roitfeld I could find quickly to show you is at the link below.

French article with photo of Carine Roitfeld.

There is a larger version of this photo available at the following link. I am having problems with the coding so you may have to do a copy and paste. This larger photo, by the way, shows you clearly how French women wear their nails.

http://www.celebritywonder.com/free/roitfe~1_carine~1.jpg.html

See what I mean about a simple practical personal style. You don't have time to curl your hair, wear it straight. You hair keeps falling in your face, wear it there. Always wear one particular color. People will notice you for it. And black is always chic. If one piece of your wardrobe wears out, you can always find a replacement in black. Black is fashion forever.
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from annebarone

 

[Avant Garde]

Can We Please Get Some Carine Roitfeld Up in 4 Times Square?

READ MORE: International, Vogue, carine roitfeld, fashion, style, top

We’ll go ahead and say it: We’re absolutely in love with French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld. And not in the strangely fascinated way in which we proclaim ironic “love” for her American Vogue counterpart, Anna Wintour. No, what we feel for Roitfeld is pure, unjaded, dewdrop-sincere love.

Why the unbridled affection? Maybe it’s our usual Monday vulnerability, but our feelings are no doubt shaped by Roitfeld’s frank words on the fashion industry:

• “They have to sell bags, bags, bags, bags, bags, bags. I hate handbags.”
[Translation: I don’t give a sh*t about about Marc Jacobs’ quilted Stella bag.]

• “Maybe if you write it, they send me some [pants]. You never know. My size is small.”
[Translation: I’m adorably shameless.]

• “Botox? No. I don’t like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.”
[Translation: I fear Nicole Kidman.]

• “Every day you have to think you are a soldier. It’s true. Always have to fight. I’m fighting to keep a level to the magazine.”
[Translation: Reese Witherspoon does not belong on my cover.]

• On why she doesn’t wear fur: “Because it has a smell.”
[Translation: It’s not about PETA.]

• On being shy: “I keep my hair down as my protection. With a drink it is better. I am very fun after one glass of vodka. I am more beautiful, too.”
[Translation: I’m just a normal drunk!]

• And, on Anna Wintour: “She taught me a lot. Maybe she think I go up too much, I don’t know… I want good relations with her. But…”
[Translation: I’m just as afraid of her as you are.]

If Looks Could Kill [Telegraph UK]

from the gawker

 

[Avant Garde]

I don't like what Anna's done with Vogue, but I have to admire her tenacity.

I think Carine has a really great style, and she is so aloof

 

[Avant Garde]

If looks could kill
(Filed: 13/11/2005)

At last, the style experts agree on something: the best-dressed woman in the world today is Carine Roitfeld, a skinny fiftysomething with smoky eyes and sharp heels. The terrifyingly chic editor of French Vogue talks to Sabine Durrant

Black? 'It's finished.' Leather? 'No good as you get older.' Jewellery? 'I hate watches. I never wear these things.' Thongs? 'Before I love strings. Now I hate strings.' Handbags? 'You can wear a completely transparent shirt and show all the breasts - I don't care. But I prefer to have my hands in my pocket than to have a nice little bag. So I am not good for all these fashions. They have to sell bags, bags, bags, bags, bags, bags. I hate handbags.'

French polish: Carine Roitfeld in Paris, wearing Yves Saint LaurentCarine Roitfeld, the editor of French Vogue, one of Vanity Fair's Best Dressed, 'the muse of the moment' according to the influential industry magazine Women's Wear Daily, is sitting behind a Perspex desk in her minimalist office in the centre of Paris.

This is the woman who has replaced Anna Wintour of American Vogue as the most closely watched editor in the front row. Her look - the straight falling-forward dark hair, the smoky eyes, the heavy eyebrows - is so 'in' that if you flick through the current issue of her magazine, you see a stream of imitations, from the model in the advertisement for Chanel to the girl wearing a watch for Breil. Right now Carine Roitfeld, 50, is the most stylish woman in the world.

Today she is wearing an off-one-shoulder off-white Prada dress. It is startlingly 'evening' for an 11am appointment and when she gesticulates - which she does a lot - you expect a nipple to appear on the low-cut side (though it never quite does). The big brown chunky high shoes - 'I steal them,' she says grandly - are from the next Yves Saint Laurent collection.

Round her neck is an unobtrusive cross ('I am not religious, I just like it') and the 'strings', she tells me, have been replaced by Calvin Klein 'little shorts - feminine, very low'. Her pants are the only things she has on that she has paid for. 'Maybe if you write it, they send me some,' she says in her sweet, French-accented voice. 'You never know. My size is small.'

When her assistant brings in a list of models for an upcoming shoot she puts on a pair of thick-lensed tortoiseshell glasses to read it ('Trop petite… trop petite,' she say, running down the names). I can honestly say there are no other signs of ageing. That bare left shoulder is toned and golden (no crêping, no sagging). Her knees - impeccable. Her beauty is rangy, mysterious, part Charlotte Rampling, a bit Patti Smith, a bit Nico. There is some wear to the texture of her face, but no lines across her forehead or wrinkles between her brows.

'Oh this is horrible, the fifties. Oh,' she shudders. 'I am quite lucky. I have the same body when I was 20 years old. But when you are getting older, you have to find some new tricks.' She tells me she whitens her teeth, touches up her dark hair ('it's not white, just a bit grey, eh?') and French manicures her hands. She has always been a 'black-eyes girl', but recently she discovered that adding a little white to the inside of the inner lid 'lifts, opens them'. She tames her bushy eyebrows ('My signature') every morning. She does pilates. She never, she says, frowns. '

Botox? No. I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.' Do you promise? 'Yes. The only thing I am doing is massage to de-stress the face. You know, with fingers? No, I don't do Botox, or surgery. I am anxious people would look at me: "The lips are not like before - what did she do?"' When I tell people she said this afterwards, no one believes her. But I do. I can't see why she would lie.

She is so disarmingly frank about everything else. You imagine the editor of any other Vogue would be anxious not to offend advertisers or their readers, would worry about sounding snobbish, or vain, or the opposite of right-on. Roitfeld, with her lists of loves and hates, doesn't seem to care what people think. She wore fur when it was in fashion, but not so much now 'because it has a smell'.

Sitting in the front row at the shows is not so good because 'you see the same ones getting older and older'. People, she says, think she is cold because she is shy. 'I keep my hair down as my protection.

With a drink it is better. I am very fun after one glass of vodka. I am more beautiful, too.' She takes a tranquilliser, Lexomyl, every day to stay calm. Running the magazine is 'like walking on eggs,' she says. 'All these egos.' You'd say she had a very French directness. 'But I am not French. I am Parisian. I don't love the French.'

Her upbringing in the 16th arrondissement was, she says, 'very bourgeois. I'm not saying we were in diamonds, but very, very comfortable.' Her father - 'my idol' - was the Russian film producer Jacques Roitfeld: 'very chic, he love to go out, he never come home' - who died in 1999. Her mother, still alive, 'but old', is 'more conventional'.

Roitfeld was very competitive at school and then, at 16, 'everything changed. I got bored.' She discovered nightclubs and began modelling. 'I was not a big model. My face was too much in advance.' She became a writer and then a stylist for French Elle: 'Little stories. Small, small pictures.'

'I don't wear fur now because it has a smell'

She met her partner, Christian Restoin, who ran the clothing company Equipment, in a nightclub and had her two children, Julia and Vladimir (now 24 and 22), almost immediately. 'It was like a good accident.' She never stopped working but 'it was an easy life. I see some of my friends, they have so much to fight for money, they squeeze like a lemon, there is no more juice, no more happiness to do the job. Because I was in a comfortable position with Christian, I was not destroyed.'

Roitfeld describes her professional progress ('I hate this word "career"') as a series of accidents. While she was working as a freelance stylist her daughter, Julia, was in a children's fashion shoot. The photographer was Mario Testino. Roitfeld and he hit it off and began working together as a team, doing advertising work as well as shoots for American and French Vogue. '

And then there was this guy called Tom Ford constantly calling us to work on his first collection for Gucci. But at this time Gucci was just a pair of loafers. I was young, I was, "Oh la la" - it was not trendy - "Who is this guy?" He called me maybe ten times and I say one day, "OK, come to the shoot," and when he came he was so beautiful, so charming and we say OK, not because of the clothes, but because of him.' Roitfeld went on to work as a consultant for Ford at Gucci and YSL for six years.

'I was like a feminine continuity of himself. We are both Virgo. We have the same history of what is beautiful, Studio 54, rock 'n' roll. Tom would look at me, the way I was crossing my legs, where I was putting my bags, how I was sitting. He'd say, "How do you wear it?" Me: "Oh, no bag with this, it's not possible." He discover maybe an idea of the woman through me. His first collection was not so sexy and then when I come in it was very 1970s, very oh la la low-waist sweaters, very open the shirt… OK, today I wear a very nice white dress, but in this period I was more rock 'n' roll.'

Roitfeld was approached by Jonathan Newhouse to edit French Vogue in 2001. She was already earning a lot of money and 'was not raised' to manage people. 'But I love to change. I always love to push myself because I am not so self-confident. I always make me big things to do.'

She says, 'Every day you have to think you are a soldier. It's true. Always have to fight. I'm fighting to keep a level to the magazine. I'm fighting to get the good girls. We are doing a cover with Mario Testino just before the couture show of Givenchy so I try to book the model now. And I know that is going to be tricky because there is a Lacroix show. I don't want to be mean to Lacroix but I want my cover to be beautiful.'

Advertising revenue, under her jurisdiction, has increased 60 per cent from last year. In the industry, her magazine has become known for fresh, fierce, razor-sharp photography. Roitfeld continues to style many of the shoots. She is not afraid to shock.

'We are very free in France. We are free with sex, with cigarettes…' Earlier this year a spread of photographs depicting Bee Shaffer, Anna Wintour's debutante daughter, at the Crillon Ball, appeared in the middle of an 'erotic-chic' edition of the magazine.

'Unfortunately,' Roitfeld winces, 'just after the most erotic picture in the entire magazine.' There were diary stories claiming Wintour was horrified. 'And of course some nice people left this story on my desk. But really I wanted to do something beautiful for Bee. I was very shocked… I sent Anna Wintour a note and she sent me a note back: "Don't worry, we love the pictures." So…' She breaks off. 'She taught me a lot. Maybe she think I go up too much, I don't know… I want good relations with her. But…' She looks vulnerable for a minute.

To cheer her up, I ask if it amuses her to be a muse. 'It amuses my children. They say, "Oh la la, the muse, your hair is dirty." They make fun of me so I still have my feet very much on earth.' Her style, she says, is not about rules. 'I hate, "Don't do that, don't wear white shoes with black tights." I do the contrary and I don't care what people think.' She also hates signs of richness: 'All those logos… it's horrible. If you think about an attitude of a girl, "I am a very Saint Laurent girl." You know, because these girls they look sexy in a boyish way. I don't have a driver. I don't think because you have money you have taste… Education and money - this is quite rare. No?'

She has a beautiful empty flat - 'I hate garbage. I try to edit, edit, edit' - in Les Invalides. She drives an old Mini. (Actually she drives three old Minis, one red, one green, one convertible.) 'For normal woman, with not big money, if I would give advice: buy mainly classic pieces and a new pair of shoes each season. A Burberry trench-coat is always beautiful. Maybe you change the belt and this season you put an Indian scarf. This is my speciality. Simple things to make it happen, to make it different.'

She doesn't know how long she will stay in the job. Her partner has left fashion and they see each other when they can around what is, including parties, a seven-day working week. Sometimes she takes a couple of days off to visit Russia ('I love, love, love St Petersburg') and when the magazine closes for three weeks in August the whole family goes away - usually to America, but this year, as both her children are now studying in America, to Grenadine. 'My kids call me every day,' she says.

'OK, I am the Best Dressed. OK, I am editor-in-chief. OK, I am here. This is great. But my kids are not in drugs, they are happy with life. I am still with Christian. We are still a family. It is a work to keep a family. This is the best.'

She has to go off now. She is having lunch with an old, old friend of her father's who has contacted her out of the blue. She is puzzled. 'Perhaps she was his mistress,' I joke. She answers seriously. 'Maybe at the beginning. After, they were just friends.'

She picks up her handbag - a tatty denim thing I later see in the window of Yves Saint Laurent next door for €450 - and dangles it over one naked shoulder. It's an old lady she is meeting. She doesn't want to be late. She gives a heavy sigh. 'I am nicer than I look.'

Main portrait by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin

from telegraph.co.uk (the article gawker was talking about)

 

[Whitelinen]

Thanks a bunch! That Gawker article is hilarious.

 

[arlekindearrabal]

^yes, and so true!

and i love that last line, i dont know who said it (i think it was anna barone black is fashion forever... i'm gonna start using that

 

[Fabulyss]

Anyone know who makes that tee she's wearing in Purple Fashion Magazine?

it says "vogue love you"

 

[marcj]

carine is my hero

 

[edgestyle81]

Paris fashion week parties

style

 

[Miss Dalloway]

who is that with her?

 

[edgestyle81]

Emanuel Ungaro's Peter Dundas and Carine.

 

[smartarse]

Oh I worship the ground Carine walks on *bows* *bows* *bows*

 

[Miss Dalloway]

Edgestyle81 thanks for pictures!

 

[Avant Garde]

How To Be Carine In 5 Days
Tracing La Roitfeld's style

Thursday, March 09, 2006

(PARIS) Ultra-chicette Carine Roitfeld always knows how to make a grand entrance. Whether it’s pairing Dior with Dolce & Gabbana, or rocking a runway look before it’s even been shown, the French Vogue editor elicits more stares than most celebrities. Here, a look at five days in the life of Carine’s style.


Entering Viktor & Rolf with Mario Testino

February 27: Viktor & Rolf
Wearing: Dolce & Gabbana coat, Dior ensemble underneath, and Helmut Lang shoes—“Because we still want him with us,” she explained.


Exiting Jean Paul Gaultier

February 28: Jean Paul Gaultier
Wearing: Givenchy coat, Azzedine Alaïa dress, and Helmut Lang shoes.


Posing backstage with Stella McCartney

March 2: Stella McCartney
Wearing: Dolce & Gabbana coat—apparently faux, as she quipped, “I wore it for Stella”—a Prada men’s sweater, and, natch, Prada python heels.


The gang's all here: a pre-show photo with Stephen Gan, Linda Evangelista, and Testino

March 2: Yves Saint Laurent
Wearing: YSL coat, a YSL dress from the fall 2006 collection—“I can walk the runway,” she joked—and her beloved Prada python shoes.


Vamping it up at John Galliano

March 4: John Galliano
Wearing: A fur-and-dress combo from Peter Dundas’ first collection at Emanuel Ungaro and, of course, the Prada python heels.

from fashion week daily

 

[shalu]

Avant, thanks so much for posting that...karma for you! I her style!