Carine Roitfeld: Album Of A Woman Of Fashion Update

Carine Roitfeld and Alex Wiederin at Buero New YorkYou may remember that I mentioned a forthcoming book titled Carine Roitfeld: Album of a Woman of Fashion and edited by Olivier Zahm; Purple Magazine even stopped by last summer to issue an invitation to all of us to send in our questions for Carine for consideration for publication. When Carine met with style.com last week, she discussed progress on her book: "And I have to finish my book for Rizzoli. I’m very late, so it’s my last days to finish it. It’s supposed to come out September or maybe October of this year... It’s a bit like that [a retrospective of my career]. I never like to go back, so to go back to a picture you did 20 years ago, it’s almost like going to a shrink. It’s a lot of emotion… Most of the pictures are the ones I did with Mario Testino… It’s mostly dedicated to Mario, that book."

Carine's book is being designed by Mitra Farahmand of Buero New York, a boutique design agency headed by creative director Alex Wiederin that provides creative direction for clients such as AnOther Magazine and Italian Glamour. Other books designed by Buero New York include Mario Sorrenti's The Machine, Jeff Burton's Dreamland, Michel Comte's Charlie Chaplin: A Photo Diary, and Terry Richardson's Terryworld.

Monsieur Zahm describes the 300 page hardcover volume as almost like a "'scrapbook' of all things Carine," what a fabulous idea! Then OZ gives us the really great news: "It's a biography... We just went into her apartment and took everything that happened — every kind of little element about her life, her style, her obsessions. It will be nice." Nice! It will be very, very nice, quite possibly the nicest fashion book of all time!

Carine Roitfeld and Mitra Farahmand at Buero New YorkOh yes, here are the questions that I submitted to Purple last summer hoping for an answer from Carine herself... Note that I managed to limit myself to ten, more or less [wink]...

1. Can you give us an example of the foods and beverages that you consume regularly, particularly those that you consider staples?
2. Do you practice Pilates at home or with a group? How regularly and for what duration do you practice?
3. What advice would you give to an aspiring writer? Stylist? Editor-in-chief?
4. What beauty products do you use faithfully?
5. What questions do you have for your readers?
6. What do you want for your birthday?
7. Describe for us a moment that you remember in a breathtaking natural setting: how did it feel, look, smell? What were you wearing?
8. What are your ten (or so) favorite albums? Films? Books?
9. If you were to change your name, what would it become?
10. Do you know how much your fans love you? Keep up your brilliant work!!

Okay so I got more than a little carried away but did you try it? What were your questions for Carine? I'd love to know...

Carine Roitfeld et al photographs © 2011 Purple Fashion magazine. All Rights Reserved.

Update on dimanche 6 mars 2011 by kellina

The book is now titled Carine Roitfeld: Irreverent and is scheduled to publish 4 October 2011.

Comments

[Milla]

#2 Ladies, if you're not doing pilates, you need to start! Sorry, addict speaking here...

#9 is so interesting because we all associate certain traits to names, don't we?

My question to Carine would be:

"If you could choose another career, what would you choose?"

[Kate]

How about,

"Who do you consider your mentors?"

"What makes you excited about fashion year after year?"

[kellina]

All hail to the queen of Pilates! Right you are on all counts, Milla! May I say what a timely question for Carine...

[kellina]

Great questions, Kate! I would particularly love to know who she regards as her mentors.