Emmanuelle Alt Officially Announces Departure from Vogue Paris as EIC

[vogue28]

If all the other editors received their own individual threads when announcing their departure from Vogue… Emmamuelle Alt deserves one.

We’ve all been expecting this news since May but Alt officially announced her departure today via Instagram (with Eugenie Trochu already announced as Alt’s replacement earlier this month).

 

[Alien Sex Friend]

I didn’t like her guiding hand at vogue paris, but I expect things getting worser after her departure, but it’s a whole Condé Nast big trouble with sharing materials and cutting budgets. They dig their own graves.

 

[Lola701]

She deserves her own thread. She has been at Vogue Paris for 20 years, 10 years as an EIC and she is undeniably one of the few editors who matters (unlike Farneti who will be forgotten like Schulman).

I’m not sad for her departure. I’m just sad that she didn’t have her « Farewell » issue like Carine had with her favorite models and photographers.

In a way, her departure is coherent to her tenure. She was very discreet, I can’t think of more than 3 interviews of her. Her Vogue was very directional but maybe less influential and cutting edge.

I’m very excited for what is next for her. A lot of brands needs her touch. And I’m excited to see which one will be the first to call her.

 

[Scotty]

This is sad. The end of an era! Condé Nast is really killing all the Vogues with this "global" thing. Hopefully, newer and better magazines emerge this decade, I guess..

 

[Bertrando3]

I don't care for Alt or her beige boring era or shall I say her ''jeans 80's craze'' era. Carine's Vogue was much better and closer to France's ultimate idea of glamour, sex and visual references. NEXT good riddance. Although seeing CN plans and Edward and Anna overseeing everything I will not hope too much for the next phase of Vogue Paris lol. As a french person it saddens me to see what COULD HAVE BEEN after Carine left and what is actually left lol.

 

[artemovartem]

#JusticeForAlt

 

[GivenchyAddict]

It was her time to go. I don't feel sorry for her nor CN (and their new strategy).

Emmanuelle was not a leader. She did not nurture new talents or push her team to exceed themselves. She did the opposite, she made them lazy and not creative. She diminished Suzanne's talent while she was the fashion director that's one of the reasons she left. Aleksandra was so nice at M Le Monde and almost unrecognizable once at VP.

She was so out of touch on the evolution of print, social media and fashion in general. Thank God, it was still luxurious, how it could be not? She brought the same top tier contributors she works with for decades and this is Vogue, they have at least to do some luxurious imagery.

For someone who had a 1/3 of my life to produce things, she barely produced anything memorable. It was good, it was beautiful but uneventful. Vogue is supposed to be a reference and it was not. Her magazine was just a glossy magazine.

In the end, I still want to say I do like her and respect her but she had a magazine in her hands that was successful, fashion-forward and well-positioned in the fashion sphere and she turned it into some Elle bis. I can't forgive her for that.

Her tenure is resume to : denim, nature, 80s, Rianne and I&V

 

[mepps]

Alt will land on her feet, and thrive somewhere else. I have no doubt of that.

 

[SLFC]

I can't speak to merits of her predecessor as I was born too late. So Alt is the defining editor for Vogue Paris for me. I feel some of the criticisms levied here are not entirely fair. I am still distraught with her departure and throughout everything Vogue Paris has remained one of the only preferred editions of Vogue.

On the bright side I am glad that her replacement is from somebody within Vogue Paris, and hopefully this means a continued legacy in the face of homogenization by CN.

 

[DK92]

To be honest I didn't think Vogue Paris under Alt's command was exceptional, so I'm not sad that she's leaving, she managed to stay longer than Carine and even so, produced much “less good” and iconic content.

What makes me sad is that even under these circumstances, she was better than Anna, Edward and Farneti! To make matters worse, we know that without her we are running the risk of having an absurd regression and even worse content.

Alt perpetuated some mistakes, such as the lack of diversity, but fulfilled the mission and gave Raquel Zimmermann a cover!

Finally, can we call the Alt’s situation karma? After all, there are rumors that she plotted Carine's leaving behind the scenes?!

 

[Deleted member 141523]

It was the last old school Vogue, so to me it's a sad day. As what happened to Vogue Italia, I'm afraid of what's next for VP. I was into VI until Verderi took it, and then I discovered VP. She was one of a few editors that keept glamour during the pandemic, and it was needed. Those 2020 covers are glorious, and even VP wasn't so diverse with its cover models (and using the same girls all most of the time, the "Alt Girls" like Natasha, Gisele, Rihanne or Mica) she tried with the Valentina Sampaio cover, or Erika Linder wearing a suit, Jill Kortleve, Lauren Hutton, Malika Louback last year. She lauch the career of Luna Bijl, one of the greatest models of recent years. I don't know. Maybe Carine did a great VP, but when she created CR, this wasn't so good as Alt's VP. Farneti/Verderi's departure was needed, this is like self sabotage. Farneti's mistakes were worse by far than her's (and yeap, are the ones you're saying here), but he wasn't fired, he quit.

 

[Bertrando3]

Alt perpetuated some mistakes, such as the lack of diversity, but fulfilled the mission and gave Raquel Zimmermann a cover!

ahaha ditto, you're so right Raquel's cover felt like ultimate justice for many of us ahaha

 

[balmain1914]

One sad thing during her potion at VP was she did not appreciate the Asian models.
I am not saying about the girls on covers, but editorials.

 

[MON]

One of the last remaining editions that had a vision. Regardless of our opinions on her vision, we cannot deny that at least she had one and had the guts to stick with it.

This move will backfire. Trust me.

Cannot wait to see what's next for Alt. A tremendous stylist like her will surely land somewhere.

My heart breaks not just for Alt, but also for the industry I grew up with.

 

[thekijken]

One sad thing during her potion at VP was she did not appreciate the Asian models.
I am not saying about the girls on covers, but editorials.

correct, how many asian models showed up ever in her era ?
I can vaguely only recall Liu-Wen has been there two times and like they are both studio flat shootings.

I mean she can't even use her les-parisiennes-cliche obsession to defend herself because asian models with long straight hair can rock those jane birkin look, Ju xiaowen can do flapper easily...etc, i can keep throwing the ideas...

one of the most fascinating part about fashion is how real people cooperate a certain style into their own existence.

in this case, this magazine somehow dedicates too much the people who were associated to the certain style rather than how the style should lively interact with people.

 

[Deleted member 141523]

VP should have been more diverse not only with asians. It should been more diverse with black, latinos and more. I don't know why Alt didn't put different models to show more representation, and it was one of her mistakes. I don't think she's racist at all, but she should have been more inclusive and updated during her reign. That's all. All the Vogue editors should embrace diversity now.

 

[Lola701]

It was the last old school Vogue, so to me it's a sad day. As what happened to Vogue Italia, I'm afraid of what's next for VP. I was into VI until Verderi took it, and then I discovered VP. She was one of a few editors that keept glamour during the pandemic, and it was needed. Those 2020 covers are glorious, and even VP wasn't so diverse with its cover models (and using the same girls all most of the time, the "Alt Girls" like Natasha, Gisele, Rihanne or Mica) she tried with the Valentina Sampaio cover, or Erika Linder wearing a suit, Jill Kortleve, Lauren Hutton, Malika Louback last year. She lauch the career of Luna Bijl, one of the greatest models of recent years. I don't know. Maybe Carine did a great VP, but when she created CR, this wasn't so good as Alt's VP. Farneti/Verderi's departure was needed, this is like self sabotage. Farneti's mistakes were worse by far than her's (and yeap, are the ones you're saying here), but he wasn't fired, he quit.

Carine’s CR didn’t exactly had the same ressources as VP by Emmanuelle…Neither in terms of talents or photographers.

The facts are here. Emmanuelle’s work at VP was at it best when Carine was at the helm. She created the perfect platform for her to shine. Carine’s Vogue was glorious but so was her work in the 90’s in US Vogue and other magazines.

Other than that, Emmanuelle’s consulting for Chanel, Gucci, Balmain and Isabel Marant was as iconic as her editorials in VP during Carine.

Ultimately, her Vogue was great because the others aren’t. It’s not really an achievement..

The « Apres moi le déluge » situation won’t hurt her legacy tho.

 

[Bertrando3]

^EXACTLY !!!!!!!

And I agree it's a shame Asian and Black models weren't used much more and on the covers it's crazy and indeed racist.

 

[Deleted member 141523]

I agree that VP was the good one among the big 4 because it kept doing fashion contents. Imagine if Franca were here?! She would be better than Alt and Enninful (and maybe named editor for Europe). And man, it really sucks if you are not diverse now, there's not excuse for that. If fashion editors are more representative now, it should be effortless and beautiful, like Karla Martinez does for Vogue Mex & Latam. I don't like when editors are diverse but they're so lazy showing it.

 

[sixtdaily]

Tonight at the opening of the Vogue 100 exhibition in Paris with EE and AW....


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