Emmanuelle Alt - Stylist

[Magic Spells]

leaving the Chanel Haute Couture spring summer 2011 fashion show

maydele

 

[minstinguett]

She comes across really well, very friendly and passionate about her job.

 

[godsavethhequeen]

I have the sensation that she always wear the same :S

 

[KKnardi]

^she does wear the same "uniform" all the times, though with different modifications. that's one of the things I really like about her too, she is true to her style.

It can become a bit boring in time, but still...

 

[Chanelcouture09]

Emmanuelle Alt will be the new representative of the fashion magazine Vogue Paris. " She will succeed Carine Roitfeld on 1 February. Olivier Lalanne, the new deputy editor of the magazine, Emmanuel Alt will renew the prestigious magazine, which celebrates its 90 years.

A new face, always in vogue. The prestigious magazine has finally revealed the best kept secret of his last days. Xavier Romatet, president of publications for the Condé Nast International, found that the new editor in chief of Vogue Paris "would be Emmanuelle Alt. An obvious choice for the almost faultless display of the young woman. Internationally respected stylist, she is also editor of the fashion section of Vogue Paris, "for ten years. This young woman resembling rock that swoons for the dark, followed Carine Roitfeld who wished to withdraw from the world of the press in order to "concentrate on personal projects that are close to my heart." This decision aroused nostalgia group, "I regret of course the decision of Carine, although I understand it, had commented Xavier Romatet. A page turns and begins a new stage for this brand strong, powerful and sure of its values. "

"Emmanuel has all the qualities"

After studying fashion, Emmanuelle Alt in 1993 became the fashion editor of the magazine "20 years" and she continued the same responsibilities for the magazine "Mixed" in 1998. Vogue Paris is doing very well and I wanted to entrust the editorship to someone who can provide continuity while bringing new life, "said Xavier Romatet in a statement published on the website Vogue.fr. "Emma has all the professional and personal qualities needed to continue making" Vogue Paris "referent of the world's leading fashion magazines. Vogue Paris "must be a collective passionate adventure where looks the most creative and most diverse on fashion, beauty, expressed through the collaboration of the greatest photographers and stylists Emmanuelle knows perfectly," said Xavier Romatet. "I have complete confidence in him incarnate and lead this challenging and prestigious brand and sustain it in all its dimensions, including the development of digital," he said. And then finally there was no to question a long time. In an interview with the magazine, he said: "I also wished that Paris Vogue editor has a French, gold in France, Emmanuelle Alt, Carine Roitfeld with, is the best." The new woman most influential fashion shows its part has said: "It's a great honor for me, but also a great pleasure to get to the head of" Vogue Paris "I know very well."

In the same interview, Xavier Romatet gave an outline of what Vogue would be in the future. Again, in response, the leader is confident. "What I want is that Paris Vogue is very open, whether a magazine where all can express feelings, where all styles could exist. Magazine where all speak because they have talent. Emmanuelle Alt is able to open the magazine that, "he said. "By working with very talented teams, I will try to develop the tremendous potential of" Vogue Paris' "she promised. Emmanuelle work with Olivier Lalanne, who will direct the editorial magazine Vogue Hommes International.

The support should know a lifting for its 90 years but while preserving nevertheless his chic and provocative picture. In first place, the director of the publication as well as Emmanuelle Alt would wish that "the know-how of" Fashion Paris"" does not stop itself fashionable, but that it radiates "in all the sectors and the pages of the newspaper: Beauty, Jewelry Making, the party magazine". Next, the evolution will be born of the passage to the "Fashion" to a version 2,0. In fact, the group has the intention to perfect the introduction of the magazine in all the new spaces in the middle of the democratization such as "the Digital, the iPad, the iPhone". And Xavier Romatet specified that "Emmanuelle Alt will imply itself in the reworked site of" Fashion" or again in the application iPad of the magazine." In then, surprised, the third shutter of this renaissance concerns the accessibility of the brand: "We must multiplied the events that return the brand" Fashion" accessible to everyone. Later this year, there will be an exposition around "Fashion Paris"". In any case, "Fashion Paris" must become "an even more universal reference that aujourd’hui, recognized everywhere in the world, America to China, while going through India or Japan".

*Parismatch.com

 

[deboradematos]

stockholmstreetstyle

 

[godsavethhequeen]

she rocks!

 

[Jinadaze]

^^ Is the jacket Balmain?

 

[lunapreity20]

Emmanuelle Alt, The New Editor of Vogue Paris, on Daria Werbowy, Celebrity Covers, and New Designers

by Mark Holgate

Emmanuelle Alt, the recently appointed editor of Vogue Paris, is sitting at a tiny two-seater table at the Galerie des Gobelins bar at the Hôtel Plaza Athénée, sipping a Coca Light avec glace, having laughingly sent the waiter back to the bar tout de suite when he appeared at the table bearing regular Coke. Alt, clad in a Balmain caban jacket, a black Prada cashmere crewneck sweater, and black flared J Brand jeans, is en route to the Elie Saab show, but she has agreed to meet up and talk (just a little, not too much, she doesn’t want to give everything away) about what she plans to do with the—her—magazine. Her first issue is April.

Of course, that’s all anyone has wanted to know, ever since the previous editor, Carine Roitfeld, decided to step down at the end of last year. Over the course of an hour, Alt—smart, frank, funny, and insightful—talks about leading the magazine where she was until only recently fashion director for a decade. (Before that, she was at 20 Ans, French Elle, and Mixte.) It’s a rare opportunity to speak to Alt who, despite being one of the most fiercely blogged about stylists—helped in huge part by her striking looks, six-foot-plus lanky androgyne frame, and a knack for looking like the coolest rocker girl ever—has tended to let her work speak for itself. So, here she is. . .

On How She Sees Vogue Paris—For Now
“I want to keep the quality, the photographers we work with—David [Sims], Mert and Marcus, Mario [Testino], and Bruce Weber. I don’t think there should be radical changes. The magazine should still be chic and sophisticated. It’s a bit like buying an apartment: Before you move in, you have all these plans of what you are going to do, but then you get there, and you realize it is better to spend time living in it, and transforming it over time. I’d like there to be more beauty trends; there was so much of that in Vogue back in the eighties. And how people are living; there are so many interesting, cool people here, and they should be in the magazine. More French girls, more French lifestyle. And I am going to keep shooting for the magazine—hopefully a story every issue. I do project myself in my pictures, even if I would never wear what I shoot. Actually, most of the time I definitely wouldn’t. I always want a relationship with reality: nothing too sexy, or provocative, or fashion victim. Even if I love to dream, I want the magazine to feature a girl who looks like she belongs in real life. We are French—we can show smoking, nudity. We have no boundaries, and it can be good to have them."

On Celebrity Covers
“We don’t have a systematic point of view on it. But here in France we are back in a much more glamorous time. French actresses were respected, but not so evidently in the fashion world. Now we have Marion Cotillard, Charlotte Gainsbourg. I’d be very happy to put an actress on the cover if she is the right girl.”

On the Need for New Designers in Paris
“No one has appeared, and you cross your fingers that someone will come through. It’s good that some people—like Bouchra Jarrar—are using the haute couture to get attention for themselves. You can’t create new talent just like that. America feels like it has become the place for young designers.”

On Her Kind of Model
“Daria is the girl I work with the most. She has a natural, strong beauty. You can put her in a white tee and she will make it look fantastic. I like Kate [Moss] too, because she cares about clothes. Most models don’t care what you put them in, they just play the game.”

On Life Beyond It
“I spend all my weekends with the kids [Antonin, 13, and Françoise, 6]. It’s that culpability of having been working at the magazine all week. Françoise is a good tennis player, so we do that. It goes so fast. A weekend is like ten minutes for me. And we’ll go to dinner with friends. I don’t see doing things any differently now. My job has changed. My life hasn’t.”

On Her Own Style
“I like vintage. Balmain. Givenchy. Chanel. I love jeans. I wear a lot of jeans. I have that French-girl thing of always wanting to wear a cashmere sweater with a pair of jeans. Mine are J Brand, Acne—and I like Topshop. I don’t want them to be “designed.” Jeans should be jeans. I rarely wear skirts. My daughter is just the same. I’ll try to convince her to wear a skirt, or a dress, and she’ll look at me say, ‘Why? You don’t.’ ”

Source:vogue.com

 

[KKnardi]

^mmmmm... Plaza Athénée, one of paris most exclusive and expenisve hotels...

 

[ChrissyM]

i feel like i'm becoming increasingly enamored with her the more interviews i read

i like her point of view and she seems laid back...
i'm rooting for her...
i hope she does well as EIC

 

[MON]

It’s a bit like buying an apartment: Before you move in, you have all these plans of what you are going to do, but then you get there, and you realize it is better to spend time living in it, and transforming it over time.

Very well said Emmanuelle!
The more interviews I read, the more I want to skip out Carine`s last issue and let Alt show her work.

 

[ForChicSake]

i feel like i'm becoming increasingly enamored with her the more interviews i read

i like her point of view and she seems laid back...
i'm rooting for her...
i hope she does well as EIC

me too

 

[lelaid]

really interesting interview. im incredibly excited to see the direction she takes the magazine.

 

[almudena]

I saw her rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré yesterday afternoon, leaving the Vogue office and turning at rue Boissy d'Anglas towards Crillon - Concorde.
She was wearing her staple style, black jeans, black Westwood pirate boots (I've seen her a couple of times sporting those since last year - or is it two years?) and the black fox fur coat she's wearing in #751.

 

[BerlinRocks]

omg ....
borrring borrrring .....

Vogue Paris will remain the same, after all ...

and she drinks diet coke, even more boring .....

 

[KKnardi]

^well, what did you hope for? everything's going to be the same, maybe a slight change in time, who knows... I mean we can't expect her to change vogue radically into a super hype art/fashion magazine, what would the dames in neuilly say?!

 

[lunapreity20]

New Star in the Front Row
By CATHY HORYN
Published: February 9, 2011

FOR two reasons, the choice of Emmanuelle Alt as editor in chief of French Vogue, in January, was anticlimactic. First, there was all the weirdness of her predecessor’s departure. Was Carine Roitfeld, who held the post for 10 years, fired or did she resign, as Condé Nast maintained? Second, the swift promotion of Ms. Alt from the No. 2 position of fashion director suggested that her bosses weren’t looking for much change. As she herself said, “They know my work by heart, and probably they felt like it was safe for them.”

Vogue editors do not come along every day, except in China and India, where Western fashion magazines are new. Anna Wintour (American Vogue) and Franca Sozzani (Italian Vogue) have each held their jobs for 22 years; Alexandra Shulman, the chief of British Vogue, a little less. If anything, the cult of the editor has exploded in the last decade, with books, documentaries and fan sites like I Want to be a Roitfeld, which is dedicated not just to Ms. Roitfeld but also to offspring. Recently the site branched out to include Ms. Alt.

At the same time, in a series of posts on Vogue.it, Ms. Sozzani has been critical of this cult, suggesting, among other things, that people have their priorities confused. Without referring to anyone specifically, she said this week in an interview: “They think it’s sitting in the front row and looking around with a tough eye as if you’re the one to decide about the life of people. This attitude is completely wrong. It’s what you do for the magazine that matters.”

Then she added, “Honestly, I don’t think a stylist has a vision for a magazine.”

Ms. Roitfeld was a freelance stylist before she became editor of French Vogue, where she continued to style shoots. She was also the model for Tom Ford’s louche glamour at Gucci, down to her black bra and stilettos. Insiders doubted that she could run a magazine, but within a few years, with the help of the art director Fabien Baron and Ms. Alt (not to mention a bunch of great photographers and models, who seemed to have interned at the same disco), French Vogue felt coolly revitalized.

“It’s one of the best female fashion magazines in the world,” the photographer Jean-Baptiste Mondino said. “It’s as simple as that, and people couldn’t cope with it.” The magazine was also profitable under Ms. Roitfeld, said Jonathan Newhouse, chief executive of Condé Nast International, with a 40 percent jump in circulation over her tenure.

Ms. Roitfeld’s undoing as editor in chief was triggered, people in Paris speculated, by her December issue, which was devoted to all things Ford, not least sex. For one spread, he photographed a pair of elders groping each other in a smear of lipstick and neck wrinkles. Mr. Ford declared he was tired of youth culture.

Maybe so, but the issue as a whole suggested a lack of adult supervision at the top. In a post that appeared in January, Ms. Sozzani questioned the point of fashion shoots that make people look vulgar, specifically condemning a shoot (in the December issue of French Vogue, as it happens) that showed little girls in seductive clothes and makeup.

Certainly the Vogues face a world in which assumptions seem to be changing daily. But for that reason, Ms. Sozzani said, editors have to be absolutely in control of their magazines. “Everybody can create a magazine, just as everything can be on the runway,” she said. “But there has to be a concept. And it’s true that we’re in an image. But you cannot have the image without the vision.”

What happened to Ms. Roitfeld was this: she offered to resign, according to several individuals close to the matter. She was frequently absent from the office, on shoots, and when the issue of her management came to a head, she offered to resign. She may have been bluffing, hoping she would be asked to stay, but her resignation was accepted.

When asked if being away from the office was a contributing factor, Ms. Roitfeld said last month over a drink at the Ritz hotel in Paris: “Maybe, maybe. Everybody has an opinion. Before, it wasn’t a problem, and anyway the magazine was doing very well. It’s difficult to work with a big team. Maybe it’s good I go back to my roots.” She said that her bosses received complaints from advertisers over the Ford issue. “I was killed for that,” she said. “You know, it’s difficult to try to do something new each month.”

Asked if she regretted resigning, Ms. Roitfeld said no. “I’m very sad, but in a way I’m very happy, too. I don’t want to get old in this golden cage. I’m very punk in a way.”

Her friendship with Ms. Alt did not survive, however. Both women said they were no longer speaking. Neither would reveal the reasons.

A few days later at the Café de Flore, Ms. Alt, as candid as she is unfazed, said: “I don’t look back and see clouds anywhere. Carine is someone who needs to be free. She’s the rebel of the class. She hates authority. She dealt with it for years but. ...”


Ms. Alt, 43, the daughter of a Parisian model who worked for Lanvin and Nina Ricci and a professional writer of children’s songs, is every inch a fashion editor. Starting from the bottom, as a summer intern at French Elle, she arrived at Vogue in 2000, three weeks before Ms. Roitfeld. She is tall, lanky, with dark brown hair. Her style twin would surely be Daria Werbowy.

Indeed, for a shoot in the September 2008 issue, she styled Ms. Werbowy in the attitude Alt: skin-tight pants, snug jackets by Balmain and Chanel, plain T-shirts, Zanotti booties and flying hair. And she is as famous in fashion circles for not wearing skirts as Ms. Roitfeld is for showing leg. Her antenna is aimed at the street.

She said: “I think the street now takes its influence from the Internet and music — more than what designers do. I would love to recreate this impact in the magazine.” There is also an opportunity, Mr. Mondino suggested, to relate more content to iPad technology.

What isn’t known is whether the centimeters, when broken out, add up to editor in chief. Ms. Alt’s great strength, say those who work with her, like the photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, may be that young women, with careers and families (Ms. Alt has a daughter, 6, and a son, 13) identify with her style. “It’s believable,” Ms. van Lamsweerde said, adding, “I always say to her, ‘I want everything you’re wearing.’ ”

Personally, Ms. Van Lamsweerde said, she doesn’t care to see a more well-rounded French Vogue. “Do we really need another magazine about the latest architectural feat, the latest book? To me, what’s needed is a real fashion magazine, with the best taste and incredible photography.”

Ms. Alt, who plans to attend the New York shows for the first time in years, likened the changes she wants to make to “opening a few more windows.” She wants a more feminine attitude. “I don’t mean girlie,” she said, “but less tough. And I think you can make very strong fashion pictures without shocking or being borderline.” French Vogue may display a nostalgic love for cigarettes and nude Bardot blondes, “but it’s not because everything is possible that you can do everything,” she said.

She seems aware that to be a great editor is to be more than a daring stylist. She has told photographers that she will only style one shoot per issue. And she has given up her outside styling jobs, with Balmain and Isabel Marant, which she was permitted to do when she first came to Vogue. In an internal Condé Nast memo in January, Mr. Newhouse reminded editors about the company policy against taking on outside jobs without permission.

“I completely understand that in life you have to make choices,” Ms. Alt said. “It’s not even a discussion. I’m going to be exclusive to French Vogue.”

Source:nytimes.com

 

[lemeray]

Did I read correctly that Alt and Roitfeld are no longer on speaking terms Really, why? They seem to be very tight...

 

[kasper!]

She has told photographers that she will only style one shoot per issue.

I'm more curious to see the new stylist contributer list of new Vogue Paris! Will Marie-Amelie Sauve back?

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