I am not sure why it took so long but permit me the pleasure of sharing with you Carine Roitfeld's second in command, Olivier Lalanne. This hot Frenchman has fabulous hair and an intense gaze, two of my favorite qualities in a man. Okay, let's not intellectualize this for another minute, Olivier Lalanne is hot. Seriously.
When asked who the next most important person on her team is at Vogue Paris, Carine replied: "Olivier Lalanne, definitely. He’s my features editor-in-chief and my continuity. He’s a hard worker with a great sense of humor and he’s good looking, charming, and sweet. He was actually an intern and then he became an assistant and now I have given him this position already. I want all my team to be young very hard working people. A lot of Vogue Paris now is very young girls with great energy. Olivier is only 33, so you see I really am the old person of my magazine. And I’m the shortest of the girls too." This was in 2005; in 2006, Lalanne took over as editor-in-chief of Vogue Hommes International. Driven and intelligent, two of my favorite qualities in a man.
Carine Roitfeld and Olivier Lalanne photographs courtesy of style.com, Getty Images, and Fashion Spot.