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Vogue Paris Translation: Editorial, September 2009

Here is Carine Roitfeld's editorial for the September 2009 issue of Vogue Paris in French and in English (albeit my powers of translation leave a bit to be desired). Also forgive me for accidentally cutting off the top of the image when scanning but I simply have not the time to retouch it. Curiously, Farrah Fawcett appears in the montage of photos but not the text...

Elles s'appellent Angela Merkel, Toni Morrison, Aung San Suu Kyi, Lydia Cacho Ribeiro ou encore Natalia Estemirova, journaliste et militante russe des droits de l'homme retrouvée assassinée en Tchétchénie au moment où nous bouclons ce numéro. Intellectuelles, présidentes à la tête de démocraties, opposantes à des dictatures au pouvoir, directrices d'ong, chercheurs, grands reporters, elles font de leur vie une course contre la montre pour dénoncer l'injustice, l'oppression, les atteintes à la liberté, pour défendre les plus faibles et donner au monde un visage humain. Ces femmes sont des héroïnes, des spécimens de courage, vies battantes éprouvées à sens unique : les autres. Elles s'appellent Liza Minnelli, Gloria Vanderbilt, Bianca Jagger ou Debbie Harry. Voix tombée du ciel, allure admirable, volonté de fer, talent inouï pour se brûler les ailes, ces spécimens-là sont tout aussi rares, objets de désir, d'admiration et d'inspiration. Elles pourraient finir au coeur d'un film ou d'un roman. Des héroïnes là encore au sens où elles paient de leur personne, transcendent l'ordinaire et s'illustrent hors du commun. Portraits, interviews, mises en scène mode à la manière de... Ce Vogue de rentrée rend hommage et célèbre des femmes extraordinaires, des modèles uniques à grandeur universelle.

They are named Angela Merkel, Toni Morrison, Aung San Suu Kyi, Lydia Cacho Ribeiro or Natalia Estemirova, the Russian journalist and human rights activist found assassinated at Chechnya at the time we completed this issue. Intellectuals, presidents, and heads of democracies, opposing dictatorships in power, directors of corporations, researchers, great reporters, they make their lives a race against time to denounce injustice, oppression, breaches of liberty, to defend the weak and to give the world a human face. These women are heroines, specimens of courage, giving their lives to others. They are named Liza Minnelli, Gloria Vanderbilt, Bianca Jagger or Debbie Harry. Voice fell from heaven, looking beautiful, iron will and incredible talent to burn the wings, these specimens are quite rare: objects of desire, of admiration, and of inspiration. They could end up in a film or novel. Heroines also in the sense that they give their all, transcend the ordinary and illustrate the extraordinary. Portraits, interviews, staged fashion… This Vogue of re-entry honors and celebrates the extraordinary women, the single souls with universal size.

Vogue Paris editorial image © 2009 Condé Nast. All Rights Reserved.

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