Emmanuelle Alt

[julien520]

I wonder if they ve got financial problem so one one sponsor them to go to NYFW

 

[KKnardi]

Either way, they can see everything online...

 

[Fotoholic24]

She is in San Francisco, C.A. So i think "financial problems" are out of the picture!

 

[AlbertNoir]

^ Franca Sozzani was at NYC first day of shows and now she's in Cupertino CA for the launch of Apple's new watch ...so.......

 

[nita-karoliina]

I do miss my dose of Emmanuelle Alt coolness. Love her style.

 

[AlbertNoir]

^ Yeah, me too!

New interview by the Telegraph!

Emmanuelle Alt: 'I don't want to be an image'
Emmanuelle Alt, the editor of French Vogue, is happy to stay in the background. If only the fashion world would allow it
BY KATE FINNIGAN | 08 SEPTEMBER 2014

Emmanuelle Alt in her office at French Vogue Photo: JONATHAN FRANTINI

"You cannot seduce with the same weapon all your life," says Emmanuelle Alt, the editor-in-chief of French Vogue , "but it doesn't mean you can't seduce."

Could you get more French? After making a note to have that legend embroidered on my pyjamas, I can't help calculating just how many weapons of seduction Alt has in her own armoury. Discussing women and ageing with warmth and sincerity, how she will never be heard to say a woman is too old to appear in Vogue , she appears years younger than her own 46. Although perhaps there is something about the ease with which she sits behind her gleaming black glass desk that only comes with a certain age and authority.

But if this is what a strictly no-alcohol, no-cigarettes, lots-of-sleep lifestyle does for a girl, then the vin rouge stops here. She is silkily beautiful and slim, tall, clear-skinned, plump of cheek. No Hollywood director would dare cast an actress as good-looking as Alt as the editor of a fictional magazine. She is, as they say, a fox. In the canon of Vogue editors she's The One We'd Most Like To Be. She is not fearsome like Anna Wintour, or Angelica Cheung of Chinese Vogue . She's not a campaigner like her Italian counterpart Franca Sozzani or an intellectual like British Vogue 's Alexandra Shulman . And she's not an agent provocateur like her predecessor and former boss Carine Roitfeld . Alt, as people used to say back when Roitfeld was still in charge, is the cool one.

Understated appears to be her modus operandi. She is friendly and girlish rather than icy and grand. She doesn't do many interviews. "I decline most of them," she says. "I don't want to open my mouth every 10 minutes, you know? It's just not me. I'm not shy but I'm not pushing myself forward."

The same goes for her attire. Her boyish, leggy-with-tailoring, rock-star-girlfriend thing is much copied, a template for the trendy thirtysomething from Paris to New York, but it is never try-hard. Alt makes fashion look easy, a matter of getting dressed rather than dressed up. "I have always been quite boyish. I used to wear some skirts in the past but I was always looking for simplicity," she says. Now it's only trousers or jeans. Today: Isabel Marant slouchy leather and an American Apparel pink shirt, sleeves pushed up to just below elbow, and shoes by Saint Laurent. "Because the heel is perfect. I mean, this" - she proffers the dinky heel of the black ankle-strapped shoe - "it's like walking on flat shoes, which is a gift. I don't want to suffer in my clothes. I don't think it's sexy or attractive someone walking like this…" She mimes a totter.

As only someone who has perfected the art of dressing can, Alt professes not really to think about what she wears. She is not a fashion show-pony and doesn't make a special effort during the catwalk shows when she's photographed by the world's style press every day. "Not at all," she says, shaking her head. "I mean, of course I would not go in Converse or my sneakers to the show. I take care. But I'm never someone who's thinking, 'OK, next week it's the show, I'm going to do this crazy stuff.' First, I think a good attitude for a woman is to be confident, and to be confident is to be natural. I don't want to be an image."

It might be a bit late for that, I say, thinking of the myriad online pictures and analyses of Alt's outfits. "Yeah, but I will not play the game. I know my position and I know people are watching me. I feel I represent my country through the magazine and all my team is really concerned by that too, but it is not a circus for us. Between the shows we rush back to the magazine, we work, work, go back to the shows. In between that I create a crazy look? No."

Alt on the front row at Calvin Klein (F/W 2011), alongside Kate Bosworth (left) and Anna dello Russo

It is a burning hot day in Paris but all is cool (naturally) in Alt's glass box, in the corner of the new Vogue offices. They moved only two days before our meeting but, apart from the framed black-and-white images stacked on the floor, Alt is perfectly settled. White walls, black carpet, glossy black desk, not a thing out of place. "Not too bad for after two days, eh?" A sideboard bears a 1970s white lamp and vintage Playboy magazines. Although known for her love of George Michael (when she relaunched the Vogue website she made a video miming Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go), she is also a big "disco girl" - Bee Gees, Donna Summer - and a giant glitter ball sits gleamingly on the floor. "This is my friend of 25 years. She protects me. She is always with me," she says. "I love it. It's like a smile every day. I don't know what it reflects in me." Later, when she has told me firmly that she is not nostalgic, never looks back, she casts a glance at her retro possessions and laughs.

It is three years since she became top cat. She stumbled into magazines as a teenager. An arty child, she thought she might work in special effects but then she babysat for the editor of French Elle and was offered work experience and then a job at the magazine. She moved to Vogue in 2001, a month before Carine Roitfeld arrived, rising to fashion director, while also working as a stylist and as a consultant for two influential French labels, Isabel Marant and Balmain, roles she gave up on becoming editor.
Roitfeld's tenure at French Vogue was written in neon lights: sexual, provocative, challenging. She left in 2010, but not before stirring things up with an issue guest-edited by Tom Ford, which included an incendiary 15-page fashion shoot starring a 10-year-old model. Alt has brought a quieter note to Vogue , no less aspirational or desirable but not so confrontational. "I do my best," she says modestly. "There is a new Vogue woman for sure. She is still French, still the same, but it's a different vision. It's two people driving the car differently.

"I don't want the French Vogue girl to be a sexual object or a fantasy. I want her to be as perfect as possible but not merely an image. I want to keep the connection with reality somewhere. When people read magazines they project themselves in the dream of a place or a dress or a situation, so you have to show them the best but with something they can believe in," she says. So how do you that? "I don't know." She shrugs. "The way we work here is very spontaneous. There is no brainstorming forever about what the season is going to be. Sometimes in the morning I think, 'Let's do a black shoot.' So I speak to Joe McKenna [a British stylist and French Vogue contributor] or some other editors who work for me and I'm, like, 'OK, do everything black.'

Any restrictions, she says, are borne by her. "I have to do like the little kitchen here" - she mimes mixing a pot - "to make sure that we photograph every brand, all the things we have to do. But I try not to make this a heavy thing for the outside editors, even for the covers, you know? If you look at the archives of French Vogue , the freedom that Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin were given was crazy. They used to go for 10 days to do one picture. For those people it was only creativity, nothing else. So I want the photographers to feel the best pleasure to work for Vogue . I want them to feel that what they are doing is going to be one day exhibited on the wall somewhere."
Alt is not interested in shocking. Roitfeld, she says, "played with a lot of stuff, like sex and a lot of things, and this has been done so well that I wouldn't venture myself on this street because I wouldn't…" She thinks. "It would be like probably a bad repetition of it. I prefer to do something else. I love extreme work. I would love to do an issue with Cindy Sherman. This would be very surprising and not glamorous or sparkling in the way that people are waiting for. But to shock? No. Especially not with always the same… with sex. No. I think we have seen so much of that we can't even see it anymore."
She's not interested in the magazine being a vehicle for youth either. "What we shoot in Vogue is expensive stuff. It's very luxurious and it goes with an age, I think," she says. In the May issue, one of France's best-loved actresses, Sophie Marceau, 46, appeared on a sort of pop-artish cover against an orange background in a pair of black La Perla pants and a black Ralph Lauren sweater. It wasn't a summer look, it wasn't one of the key looks of the season (or anything near it was a beautiful fortysomething woman in her knickers and a sign of a fashion magazine doing its own thing.

Sophie Marceau on the May cover of French Vogue

Alt is also proud of the cover of last year's beauty issue featuring Lauren Hutton, Stephanie Seymour and Daria Werbowy, 20 years between each woman. "I think it's great to have a woman who's 70 on the cover," she says of Hutton. "In France we have a lot of actresses who are ageing and accept their age, which I think is a good example." This leads her to her aforequoted line about weapons of seduction.
Like everyone, though, Alt herself worries about ageing. "I see myself changing in the mirror in the elevator every day. Is it the bad light or is it the truth?" She laughs. "But I'm so against surgery. I can tell you today and can tell you for sure I will never do anything to my face. Nothing. The age I am? That is it. Who would you want to convince you're 10 years younger? Who do you care about? The people who know you, they know your age, so deal with it! And these women, they all look the same. It gives them something in common which is terrible."
Alt had a privileged Parisian upbringing. Her mother was a model for Lanvin and Nina Ricci in the 1960s and 1970s, and her father, who died last year, was a choreographer for the theatre and a cinematographer. They sent their daughter to a smart Catholic girls' school but weren't in the least conservative. "They were not people with small minds. Especially my dad," she says. "He was quite eccentric in his thinking. I had no brother or sister and I followed my dad a lot when I was a kid. It was a different time but he took me with him every Wednesday and I'd follow him around." To the theatre? "Yes, and everywhere. I grew up with a lot of adults, let's say, but great adults, so it was not bad."
Married to Franck Durand, the artistic director of Isabel Marant, Alt has two children, Antonin, 18, and Françoise, 10, and says she is "less cool" than her parents. "Now you have the pressure to be a perfect parent. Our parents didn't have this so it was different."

Emmanuelle Alt with her husband, Franck Durand

I wonder if there is as much concerned debate about working mothers in France as there is in Britain. "Yeah, but I don't think guilt is a solution to anything," she says firmly. "I know I'm not giving 100 per cent of my time to my kids because I'm working but I give all my free time to my kids. I don't do anything for myself. I don't go to the pool, I don't do sports, I don't go to see my friends on my own. But guilt is not a good example. They have always, since they were born, seen me leaving for work smiling. It's a gift to your kids, I think. It gives them the association of work and happiness. I am never grumpy about work."
She has an enthusiasm, which is infectious. "I don't get blasé easily. Also I feel very lucky. When you're in good health you can deal with the rest. I appreciate the simplicity of how life is beautiful. No," she considers, "I don't get my happiness from collecting shoes."

http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG11070108/Emmanuelle-Alt-I-dont-want-to-be-an-image.html

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[pinksofa]

she is finally there!!!

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[nita-karoliina]

And i'm loving her look!

 

[Not Plain Jane]

i wore a white jacket today, inspired by 226 -bottom photo. she looks so pretty there; such a nice freckled complexion.

 

[MartiniKiss]

And i'm loving her look!

Me too.


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[MartiniKiss]

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[Gábor]

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Finally something new! I was sick of her always just wearing belted coats.

 

[MartiniKiss]

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[MartiniKiss]

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[nita-karoliina]

She makes me want to wear pink jumper as well. I've been Alted

 

[MartiniKiss]

at Calvin Klein


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[nita-karoliina]

Can some one id her shoes?

 

[MartiniKiss]

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[Chanelcouture09]

Can some one id her shoes?

Saint Laurent D'Orsay Escarpin Pump.