Joëlle Ciocco

Joëlle Ciocco is a beauty address preferred by Carine Roitfeld as featured in the latest issue of Vogue Paris. From the perspective of Laetitia Casta, the brief editorial says: ‹‹En période de stress, dès que ça commence à se voir sur le visage, je file chez Joëlle Ciocco. En plus de son incroyable nettoyage qui fait la peau toute fraîche, Loubna me fait un massage du visage extra, quoiqu'un peu bizarre, parce qu'elle masse aussi l'intérieur de la bouche avec des gants pour détendre toutes les tensions. Juste après, mon élocution est toujours meilleure. Pour le théâtre, c'est formidable.››

In English: "In times of stress, as soon as it starts to show on the face, I'm off to Joëlle Ciocco. In addition to her incredible cleansing that freshens the skin, Loubna gives me an extra facial massage, though somewhat strange, as she massages inside my mouth with gloves on to relax all tension. Right after my speech is always improved. For acting, it's great."

Joëlle Ciocco (pictured below) is one of the most famous European facialists; all of her treatments and products are created from the best raw materials on a small scale by biochemists who study your skin and provide informed recommendations suited to your specific needs. Parisian women claim that Joëlle's treatments actually halt the aging process which explains why they pay the 600 euro fee for a first appointment.

Vogue Paris editorial image © 2009 Condé Nast. All Rights Reserved.
Joëlle Ciocco photograph © 2009 BeautyJournaal.nl

Decades

Carine Roitfeld's favorite store is Decades on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, a trove of priceless vintage treasures from the past few decades by designers such as Azarro, Balenciaga, Chanel, Christian Dior, Fendi, Gucci, Halston, Hermès, Lanvin, Pucci, Yves Saint Laurent, and Louis Vuitton. The building itself is also a treasure, a 1926 Art Deco beauty in beige tones, complete with leopard carpeted staircases. Owned by Cameron Silver, Decades boasts a sister boutique in London’s Dover Street Market. If you are in the mood to covet, visit the Decades blog and watch the fabulous vintage finds come and go.

Images courtesy of Decades, Inc.

Françoise Sagan

Carine Roitfeld's favorite book is Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness), the first novel by French author Françoise Sagan who was dubbed "the Bardot of literature." Bonjour Tristesse was published in French in 1954 and tells the coming-of-age story of a sophisticated seventeen-year-old girl, Cecile, her hedonistic widowed father, and the women in his life. This powerful novel, at once sympathetic and unsparing, was an instant scandal upon publication as well as an international bestseller that was made into a movie. Not bad for a seventeen-year-old author that wrote the entire manuscript in 32 days! Read an interview with Sagan conducted by The Paris Review in the autumn of 1956, her views on everything are quite amusing, particularly her success.

Françoise Sagan photographs © 1955 Life Magazine. All Rights Reserved.
Françoise Sagan photograph © 1956 Jeanloup Sieff. All Rights Reserved.

Emmanuelle Alt

Emmanuelle Alt has worked as fashion director for Vogue Paris with Carine Roitfeld since 2001; prior to that she was styling editorials for publications like Mixte and 20 Ans, where she spent five years as editor-in-chief. Alt was educated at Lubeck School, a stylish private Catholic academy in Paris with alumnae such as former first lady Cécilia Sarkozy, Caroline Deroche of Givenchy, Mathilde Agostinelli of Prada, Victoire de Castellane of Dior, Vanessa Seward of Azzaro, and Camille Miceli of Louis Vuitton. This school for 11- to 18-year-olds was founded in 1882 and is run by the Little Sisters of the Assumption. As would be expected, the navy uniforms prompted creative expression through extra efforts with hair and accessories, a natural route to a passion for fashion. Alt's personal style embodies androgynous French cool and encompasses her obsessions with Saturday Night Fever, Michael Jackson, and the 1965-1975 era. In addition to her work for Vogue Paris, Alt currently helps firms like Isabel Marant, Balmain, and Giuseppe Zanotti create their statement looks. Alt's husband Franck Durand is artistic director for Isabel Marant; they have a son, Antonin, and a daughter, Françoise, who is pictured here with her chic maman.

Visit I Want To Be An Alt to learn more about Emmanuelle Alt.

Carine Roitfeld and Emmanuelle Alt photographs courtesy of Facebook and Fashion Spot

Jean Shrimpton

Though Carine Roitfeld rarely admits to style influences, she does admire the style of one icon: "I love the looks of Jean Shrimpton. I love the 70s. That was my period. Jean Shrimpton is everything I want to be." Shrimpton was an English model and actress that represented the transition in fashion of the British Invasion of the 1960s. By age 18, Shrimpton was internationally recognized having made the covers of Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Harper's Bazaar and was considered an icon of Swinging London. She starred in the 1967 film Privilege with Paul Jones. Shrimpton was once engaged to photographer David Bailey but eventually married another photographer, Michael Cox, with whom she has a son born in 1981. NY JS DB 62 captures the beginning of the influential collaboration between Shrimpton and Bailey, energetic yet innocent, a groundbreaking duo in their era.

Photograph of Jean Shrimpton in London of Sloane Street coat © 1964 David Bailey. All Rights Reserved.