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mercredi 20 novembre 2013 Carine Roitfeld in 7Hollywood, Fashion, Los Angeles, Magazines, Saint Laurent Paris, Sebastian Faena, Style mercredi 7 août 2013 
Diane Von Furstenberg picked quite the team for her Fall/Winter 2013 advertising campaign: Carine Roitfeld styled the images as modeled by Daria Werbowy and photographed by Sebastian Faena. Laird + Partners provided creative oversight for the campaign. Carine amped up the glamour of the classic designs of Diane Von Furstenberg, with the focus on the Sutra bag, a stellar new offering by DVF. As the designer herself sees it, "This campaign, like the collection it represents, is really about getting back to our roots. It is about empowering women to be the rock star and the muse of their own lives." Who better than Carine Roitfeld to embody this image?
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Advertising images © 2013 Diane Von Furstenberg. All Rights Reserved.
vendredi 26 juillet 2013 
Vogue Turkey chose Julia Restoin-Roitfeld to cover their August issue as photographed by Sebastian Faena. I love their romantic portrayal of Julia here, stunning in black lace and upswept hairdo with the focus on her seductive gaze, she looks glamorous yet secretive. Note also the absence of jewelry and accessories, brava to the stylist. Does anyone know the designer of this beautiful lace dress? I hope we see more of Julia (and this incredible dress) inside the pages...
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Julia Restoin-Roitfeld for Vogue Turkey cover image © 2013 Condé Nast. All Rights Reserved.
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The first glimpse of the editorial shots is promising... Julia Restoin-Roitfeld up to her elbows in homemade dough! I guess the Sicilian widow look is in for autumn... Bellissima! Mangiare qualcosa!
Julia Restoin-Roitfeld Vogue Turkey editorial image courtesy of instagram/juliarestoin.
Julia Restoin-Roitfeld in Editorial, Fashion, Sebastian Faena, Turkey, Vogue Turkey mardi 9 juillet 2013 
In the new issue of V Magazine, Carine Roitfeld shares the promotional images from her "first and only modeling composites" which are featured here. Carine reflects on her modeling days which inspired her editorial "Carine's Sweet 16" for V, “The English photographer Tony Kent discovered me in the street in Paris when I was 16 and took me to Model Promotions, Elite Paris’s teenage division. After one season I went to London and signed with Bobton’s. These are my first and only modeling composites. On the far left I’m wearing a skirt that my mother made from souleiado, a very traditional French fabric used for napkins and table linens.”
Especially noteworthy are Carine Roitfeld's measurements, listed in both French and English (and likely unchanged):
As for the Disney theme of "Carine's Sweet 16," La Roitfeld confides, "I was obsessed with Mickey and Minnie Mouse… There was a shop on Rue de Canettes in the 6th called Western House that imported everything from America, and I found my Disney pieces there." In one shot, Carine has dressed the model, Dalianah Akerion, in her own tunic as well as using her own tights with polka dots throughout. Sebastian Faena photographed the images of the current collection featured in "Carine's Sweet 16."
I love Carine Roitfeld's reflections on her style and her inspiration behind each shot as told in the captions:
“Back then I would pluck my eyebrows a lot, which I now think is very démodé. But I was lucky because for many girls they never grow back. At the same moment, I was spending a lot of time in the Indian shops, where I discovered raspberry extract and wore it as a fragrance. It was also in those shops that I first found black kohl eyeliner, which I’ve worn ever since.”
“At this point I was listening to David Bowie nonstop. (I learned English listening to “Life On Mars?”) Hair was huge in the theater and it influenced me a lot. My mood was very hippie — I would wear a lot of long scarves and ankle boots in multipattern patchwork, which I bought in London. As a teenager back then you could shop in two places: the Paris flea market or in London. There was no fashion for teens and no High Street. I never aspired to wear big labels the way young people might today. I thought high fashion and fashion magazines were for old ladies and not me.”
“For a look like this I was inspired by Jean Bouquin, a big bohemian designer of the time. I would mix a vintage Romanian blouse with leather Tyrolean shorts. Both came from the flea market. The denim hat with stars came from Sisley, a label that’s still around today. I would be dressed like this when Emanuel de la Fressange, brother of Inès, would come around on his Solex motorcycle to take me to Castel, a popular nightclub. It was there that I met the other Sisley, my partner and the father of my two children.”
“I would wear this on the metro as a day look, which today would be impossible because you’d be chased down. I was very skinny, so I bought my tops at children’s stores for very cheap. In France no one knew what a lunch box was because no one took their lunch to work. Mine was from Walt Disney and I wore it everywhere because I was obsessed with Mickey and Minnie Mouse. There was a shop on Rue de Canettes in the 6th called Western House that imported everything from America, and I found my Disney pieces there.”
“I’ve always loved tights with polka dots and very feminine shoes. It’s funny because looking at this picture I realize my look really hasn’t changed so much. This is something I would very much wear even today.”
“My boots came from Carnaby Street and would have a little psychedelic detail, like a lightning bolt, which always reminded me of Ziggy Stardust. Coats for girls my age were never made in bright colors, so I would always wear navy blue or dark green. When I later worked at French ELLE I started wearing black, under the influence of three designers: Alaïa, Yohji Yamamoto, and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons.”
“Crossing my legs like this was my signature. My clothes were usually very small and very tight, and I would go to lycée looking like this. The school was co-ed, so there were no dress codes, which I found very liberating.”
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V Magazine editorial images styled by Carine Roitfeld © 2013 V Magazine, LLC. Carine Roitfeld in St. Tropez photo © 2007 by Carine Roitfeld. Other Carine Roitfeld photos © 2013 Condé Nast, Getty Images. All Rights Reserved.
Carine Roitfeld in Dalianah Akerion, Fashion, Magazines, Music, Sebastian Faena, Style, V Magazine lundi 13 mai 2013 
Carine On The Collections: The Animal Nursery
By Kristin Sekora
During her decade as editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris, Carine Roitfeld didn’t so much report fashion as blow it out of a gun at the reader, flashing crotches and breasts and famously having a model deep-throat a squid while holding a side of beef between her legs. Where then is she to land on the much tamer shores of Harper’s Bazaar? Even the GLOBAL Harper’s Bazaar? This remains to be seen.
In “The Animal Nursery” in the May issue, Carine emerges not with anything deep down a model’s throat but with her tongue deeply in her cheek, and very good and cheeky it is. The editorial is a funny “Models Without Borders: ‘We’ve got to save these baby animals even though we’re wearing million dollar clothes and we’re famous!’"
It is not a coincidence that the models are Ethiopian, Swedish, Korean, Russian, and American, just like a real group of Médecins Sans Frontières. The 17-page spread, lushly photographed by Sebastian Faena and edited by Michaela Dosamantes, both of whom work with Carine on CR Fashion Book, takes place in an ersatz tropical locale where the five beauties, all wonderfully coifed and made-up and manicured, hold delightful baby tigers, monkeys, and one tiny, adorable ocelot. They sit in director’s chairs surrounded by white canvas tents with large red crosses on them. In one scene (and, as is always the case with Carine Roitfeld, it is a “scene,” not a photo), Soo Joo Park, in a face mask and a nurse’s cap with a “V” (for “Louis Vuitton”?) on it, looks down in worry as Senait Gidey, also in a face mask, marches with determination as if to say, “Make way, we must get this baby ocelot to surgery immediately or she will die!”
There are other telling details that make it all the more funny, like the “waders” that Kate, Senait, and Soo Joo wear, almost like hazmat suits, but if you follow the credits you will find they are fishing gear. Or the Birkenstocks, which are not exactly jungle wear. And the animals! They play with the stethoscopes, climb into the wagons, or cuddle together just like, well, just like baby monkeys!
Carine Roitfeld knows how to make drama out of fashion but we start to notice that our girl is playing a game with us here, too, maybe not as in-our-faces as with her Vogue Paris, but something is going on while we are enjoying the sport… The tiger is being held in the arms of a woman wearing a tiger-printed shirt and the baby monkeys are wearing tiger- and zebra-striped diapers! A model wears a giraffe-printed coat by Burberry and a python-printed blouse.
Carine is famous for the pro-fur editorial “Reality Show” that she styled herself for Vogue Paris in August 2008, but she certainly is not in favor of using baby tiger or ocelot fur, which is illegal. And she would not have had the backing of the various wildlife preserves where the editorial was shot if she were insensitive to endangered species. It appears that all the “fur” fashion here is faux. I think Carine Roitfeld may be playing with the PETA crowd again, a kind of subterranean message, a repeat “gotcha,” only this time showing them, “Look, I get to play with all the tiger fur I want!” But here she is in tandem with the groups that preserve endangered species.
The clothes are extraordinary, particularly one dress by Dolce & Gabbana, you could picture Carine in this, it is the epitome of the pair’s combination of femininity with an edge: tweed with figure-skimming lace down the front, accessorized of course by the exquisite baby ocelot. Another dream item is a tawny faux-fur blouson and skirt by Reed Krakoff, a designer whose work I just discovered and who I really love, worn by Irina Shayk, whose rubber boot is being attacked by a playful baby tiger. A further hit is a wonderful outfit from Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci, which looks like appliquéd lace and cotton. (Carine Roitfeld wore a Bambi Givenchy top with “Pop-Pois” net pants to the Met Gala.)
“The Animal Nursery” is a move on Carine’s part to bring her dramatic element to the Harper’s Bazaar fashion scene. As a first step it is refreshing and delightful but still tentative. It definitely made me want to buy Harper’s Bazaar. With such an iconic member of their editorial staff, I cannot resist. I await further work on the editorial front. And the day when Carine Roitfeld once again comes out guns blazing!
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"Carine Roitfeld on the Collections: The Animal Nursery" images © 2013 Hearst Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
