Happy Mother's Day, Carine Roitfeld!

Carine Roitfeld inspires on many levels but I have the most respect for her as a mother. She prizes family above all else and her two children, Julia and Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld, are shining examples of her commitment to being a strong maternal figure. How will Carine celebrate her special day? According to style.com, Vladimir says, "I'm going to be here [New York City] and my mom is in London this weekend. I will send her a very, very big bouquet of flowers," most likely her favorite — white roses. Happy Mother's Day, Carine!

Carine Roitfeld and Julia and Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld photographs © 2011 Condé Nast. All Rights Reserved.

Carine Roitfeld In Self Service

Issue no. 17 of Self Service included this photograph of Carine Roitfeld with Suzy Menkes and Emmanuelle Seigner snapped by Gauthier Gallet. Carine is clearly heeding her own advice for posing here: "Chin down… angry eyes... big lips..." et voilà, the sultry look for the camera.

Carine Roitfeld photograph © 2011 Self Service. All Rights Reserved.

Julia Restoin-Roitfeld At Nina Ricci

Special thanks to Pierre-Alban HF from The Crowd for sharing the lovely photographs he captured of Julia Restoin-Roitfeld outside of the Nina Ricci show yesterday at Paris Fashion Week. Visit Pierre at The Crowd for a glimpse of the runway at Nina Ricci, très incroyable.

Julia Restoin-Roitfeld photographs © 2011 Pierre-Alban HF. All Rights Reserved.

Update on dimanche 6 mars 2011 by kellina

Another fabulous shot of Julia Restoin-Roitfeld and Anouck Lepere, this one is courtesy of Purple Magazine.

Julia Restoin-Roitfeld and Anouck Lepere photograph courtesy of purple-diary.com

Julia Restoin-Roitfeld At Fashion Week

Earlier today in London, Julia Restoin-Roitfeld was brilliant at the Burberry Prorsum A/W 2011 show in a silver python biker coat by the label. Notice how she heightens the effect of the stunning piece by wearing it against an entirely black background. Très sexy, très chic !

For a retrospective of Julia's looks last week at New York Fashion Week, visit the photo gallery.

Julia Restoin-Roitfeld photographs courtesy of daylife.com and bellasugar.com.au

Roitfelds At New York Fashion Week: Wild, Tough, Money

I have so many tidbits about the Roitfelds at New York Fashion Week for you! First, clearly, we see Carine Roitfeld enjoying her freedom from the bonds of Vogue Paris, errr, dancing in her booth at Indochine following her son Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld's New York premier of RETNA. Carine is joined by makeup artist Tom Pecheux, not sure who they are beckoning to join them sur la banquette... lucky soul...

Next up, Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld walks us through a week from his wardrobe by way of "SoHo Gallery? Black, of Course" in The New York Times. He certainly does wear a lot of black and like his mother he tends to repeat the same pieces. Poor Vlad had an unlucky week — in a mere seven days, he ruined a pair of black Dior jeans while meeting with artist José Parlá and then fell ill with a sinus infection just in time for his mother's amfAR gala benefit and his own RETNA opening the following day. But Vladimir is a trooper and he was there to make sure the show went on despite his illness. He even managed to hold down a booth at Indochine afterwards. Only to meet with another stroke of bad luck: Vlad mentioned to Swide Magazine that he and Giovanna Battaglia could not be together for their second Valentine's Day as a couple, "Her grandmother is very sick at the moment so she has to stay with her family." At least RETNA's works are selling at upwards of $30,000 apiece, hang tough, Vlad!

Both Vladimir and Julia Restoin-Roitfeld attended the party that V Man held to celebrate their Kanye West cover at which it literally rained money. Approximately $5,000 in real money and untold amounts of fake cash showered party guests on the dance floor of new hot spot Mondrian Soho including Kanye West, Keri Hilson, Alexander Wang, Harley Viera-Newton, Bryanboy, Vera Wang, Sean Lennon, Sean Avery, Zoe Kravitz, Prabal Gurung, Leigh Lezark, Brad Goreski, and Richard Chai. I hope the Roitfeld duo got lucky and picked up legit bills. View more party photos at wwd.com.

Carine Roitfeld photograph courtesy of refinery29.com, Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld photograph © 2011 The New York Times Company, V Man party photos courtesy of stylecaster.com, Julia Restoin-Roitfeld photograph courtesy of daylife.com.