Jacques Roitfeld
When queried by BlackBook as to his favorite New York City restaurants, Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld had a great answer: The Russian Tea Room. "I love the Russian atmosphere, it reminds me of my grandfather," he reminisces fondly. His grandfather was Jacques Roitfeld, perhaps better known as Carine Roitfeld's father. Jacques was a Russian film producer and worked in Berlin until moving to Paris and meeting her mother. In Carine's Wikipedia entry, she describes her father as her "idol," and says that "he was always away, filming, at Cannes." She still drinks strong black tea with a bit of jam under the tongue to sweeten it, too, so clearly her father's heritage was influential. Carine showed the photo above of Vladimir with his grandfather during her recent CNN interview. (If you know the third man in the photo, please let me know.) Vladimir, by the looks of things, tea at your grandfather's house must have been amazing.
Jacques Roitfeld photo still © 2009 Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Above we see three generations of the Roitfeld family. According to my sources, the third man pictured with Jacques Roitfeld and Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld is Carine's brother, Pierre. It appears that he has followed his father's lead, working as a film and TV producer in France including Wim Wenders' Beyond the Clouds. The photo is from Pierre's Facebook page and I assume that these are his children; doesn't the little girl look like Aunt Carine?
Pierre Roitfeld photograph courtesy of facebook.com