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.

Ask Carine Roitfeld

Olivier Zahm is editing a book about Carine Roitfeld tentatively titled Album of a Woman of Fashion and he needs your help... Originally slated to release this October, Rizzoli pushed the publication date to next autumn and has invited questions from Carine's fans that she may answer in Zahm's forthcoming book. See Rizzoli's invitation here (and note that I have verified the request is genuine). If you have a personal question that you would like Carine to answer, send it to inquire@purple.fr and you may be one of the lucky few that receives a response from La Roitfeld herself. If you do send in a question, I would love to hear about it. Bonne chance, mes chéris !

Carine Roitfeld and Olivier Zahm photograph courtesy of fashionista.com.

Carine Roitfeld By Olivier Zahm

Olivier Zahm caught Carine Roitfeld looking incredibly hot at Le Bar du Crillon in Paris last night. I love that he captured Carine in black and white while she was seated at the bar, I adore the setting, her expression, the atmosphere, but especially those boots! If you know the designer, I would be most grateful if you would share this information. Below she is pictured with Juliette Greco, clearly poised for an evening of revelry. And those boots!

Carine Roitfeld photographs © 2010 Purple Fashion magazine. All Rights Reserved.

Roitfeld And Konjic At Le Montana

The hottest couple ever (aka Julia Restoin-Roitfeld and Robert Konjic) stopped in at Le Montana for Purple Magazine's party last night and if you look closely, Robie is sporting leather pants, grrrow! Olivier Zahm hosted the party to honor Diane von Furstenberg, recently featured on the cover of Purple Fashion. Other hotties on hand to celebrate included Charlotte Casiraghi, Anna Dello Russo, Milla Jovovich, Karl Lagerfeld, Leigh Lezark, Christian Louboutin, Lauren Santo Domingo, and Olympia Scarry.

Julia Restoin-Roitfeld and Robert Konjic photograph courtesy of style.com.

Carine Roitfeld: Album Of A Woman Of Fashion

News flash: Rizzoli is publishing an entire 300 page hardcover book devoted to Carine Roitfeld! Due to release October 19, Carine Roitfeld: Album of a Woman of Fashion looks at the amazing life of fashion's top editor and stylist. As an added delight, Olivier Zahm of Purple Magazine serves as editor for the book. It is currently available for pre-order on Amazon UK only.

Carine Roitfeld photograph by Mario Testino courtesy of Vogue US

Update on jeudi 8 juillet 2010 by kellina

Rizzoli has pushed the release date for Olivier Zahm's book Carine Roitfeld: Album of a Woman of Fashion to next fall. More exciting, they have issued an invitation to Roitfeld fans to send a personal question for Carine to inquire@purple.fr; if she chooses to answer your question, it will appear in the book. I have verified the authenticity of the request.