Spring/Summer 2012: Thom Browne

Thom Browne's Spring/Summer 2012 show was surprisingly gorgeous... but not the clothes...

Carine Roitfeld will love the show ....

Mermaid + Lifeguard + Swimmer in elegant look!

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Ad Campaign: Carine Roitfeld x Karl Lagerfeld = CHANEL Fall 2011

Want to see Carine Roitfeld (the ex-editor-in-chief of French VOGUE) as a stylist for Chanel's Fall 2011 ad campaign featuring Freja Beha Erichsen and shot by Kaiser Karl Lagerfeld.

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Carine Roitfeld - Q&A Issues..Sort Of

Mademoiselle CARINE ROITFELD chill out and cleared the rumors behind her resignation in French Vogue. 

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Working with Tom Ford again?

No, no, I’m not going to work with Tom. That was ten years ago. If I look back at my CV, when I was freelance, I worked mostly ten years with Tom Ford at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent. And after [that] I stopped and it was ten years at French Vogue. Now it’s a new decade and I don’t want to be doing what I was doing ten years ago. Of course, Tom is my friend and if he asks me what I think, I will answer. But I will not go and stay one week before the show and work with him.

As model to Tom Ford's next show?

He didn’t ask me.

Paris Vogue during her reign...

 
It took a little time, because when I came to Vogue ten years ago, it was not the Vogue it is today. Joan Juliet Buck, who I was working for as a freelancer, was more a journalist editor than a fashion editor, so it was focused more on the text and writers and not so much on fashion. And me, I come with all my fashion ideas, but it was very difficult at the beginning, because a lot of photographers, it’s easy to forget, didn’t want to work for the magazine…Each time we try to be better and better, and it takes almost ten years to be a team, and now I think the best team is there. It’s very sad to leave your family after ten years…But I think the times are changing, too. I said to Jonathan [Newhouse, chairman of Condé Nast International], when I can make it ten, it will be great for me. And I think in the last [period] that maybe I got less freedom than I got before, so I think it was just the right time for me to leave, because I want to enjoy and do everything that I want to do. And Jonathan was an amazing boss, because he let me do such crazy things. To put a black transsexual with a beard and high heels on the cover? I don’t think a lot of presidents will let you do that. I think it was fun to look at French Vogue. Each month was a new happening. But I think now they want to change a bit. Even the French president [Xavier Romatet, of Condé Nast France] now wants something a bit [pauses]…sweeter I would say, and if I cannot have a lot of fun, then I prefer to do something else.

Less freedom?

 
I think yes. I think the French president—maybe not Jonathan—but the French president thinks he wants something more [pauses]…I won’t say I’m too provocative; it’s my way of expressing myself, you know. They won’t change everything, because when something has been so [successful], it would be stupid to change it. Maybe they want [things] a bit more easy for everyone. It’s true, I’m always pushing. I like that. I’ve always been provocative, but what I’m going to do next is a new way of provocation. I did for many years porno chic. I was the queen of porno chic. And I will do something totally different now.

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The Tom Ford Issue...

 
I think it’s sad because when I did this Tom Ford issue, for example, we put a lot of little girls with makeup, a lot of jewelry. It was for Christmas and it’s nothing compared to what Guy Bourdin did 20 years ago or what I saw in all the magazines ten years ago.

 

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 .... but when you put kids, you always know it’s going to be a problem. There was no nudity, it was always a T-shirt under the evening dress, but you know, people see what they want…These are the risques du métier.

Fired because of the Tom Ford issue.
No, that’s wrong…I think it was a controversial issue, but they were all controversial issues. I told you, at the end of this decade, I could see that the new president in France wanted to change the direction of the magazine. I’m sure the Tom Ford issue is not the way they’re heading in the next few years, but it was not because of the Tom Ford issue. I was not fired, because if I was fired, it would not be a very nice ending. It was a discussion between Jonathan and myself, and he never fired me…I know I did a good job. I know the March issue is a record in terms of advertising. So I’m not leaving a sad magazine, an empty magazine. I’m leaving a magazine that has an epic stop. I’m very happy about that.

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Good terms with Emmanuelle Alt?
It’s true that we are in not in the best relations, [but] I don’t want to talk about it, to be honest.

 

Feud with Nicolas/Balenciaga?
Sometimes people like to put oil on the fire, to make something bigger, and afterwards with blogs and the Internet, things [get out of] proportion. But now it’s gone back like before and I’m very happy because I think he’s full of talent.

 Source: style.com

Vanity Fair + Carine Roitfeld = Fabush!

Hmmmm.... Rumors! Rumors! Rumors!

News swirling around the fashion world that the ex-Editor-in-Chief of Vogue Paris.. the ever gorgeous Carine Roitfeld will be the new captain of Vanity Fair Paris!

Condé Nast exposed that they are planning to have a French edition of Vanity Fair... ala VOGUE Paris and American Vogue.

“A special team is working on this important and ambitious project, which we plan to launch in 2012,” -- Xavier Romatet.

Carine Roitfeld's 2nd To The Last Cover...

I'm not excited actually but sad because my dream-to-be-stepmother, Carine Roitfeld is soon-to-be-ex-EIC... Her second to the last issue for French Vogue is out! Well, expected that Lara Stone (*my step sister) is again the cover.

*JOKE

Emmanuelle Alt.. New EIC of French Vogue

Conde Nast Publication has found the replacement for Editor-in-Chief in Vogue Paris...the position held by the gorgeous Carine Roitfeld who resigned a few weeks ago...in the presence of Emmanuelle Alt, the fashion director of Vogue Paris.

photos from fashionindie

Can she handle the magazine as Carine handled it uber fabulously?

Image is one big factor to judge how will she handles the magazine.... 

"Emmanuelle has a practical way of dress. Her minimalist leanings often put her in jeans, tee, bold shouldered jackets, and black boots. The effect is long, lean and handsome. She holds an air of Rive Gauche bohème; a refined grunge. She sticks to her basics at the base, revolving punch in the outer layers" -- fashionindie

“She’s a handsome French woman. She has a style, but is it enough to make a whole magazine?” -- Kaiser Karl

photos from fashionindie

AMAZEBALLS FRENCH VOGUE Issue

Only in French VOGUE and Carine Roitfeld can do this awesome spread featuring plus size model Crystal Renn and shot by Terry Richardson for the 90th anniversary of French Vogue.

This will be a fantabulous and controversial spread especially to PETA! I ♥ French VOGUE!

FESTIN!

Source: fashionindie

French VOGUE October 2010...EPIC!

Next month, French VOGUE is celebrating their 90th anniversary... how to celebrate their birthday the FRENCH VOGUE style? First, their October EPIC issue ever including...

• 276 pages of ads.
• 104 pages of congratulations from all kinds of designers.
• 150 pages of features, shot by photographers like Mario Sorrenti, David Sims, Terry Richardson, Steven Klein, Hedi Slimane, Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, and Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.
• Inès de la Fressange's 11-year-old daughter modeling the little black dress (shot by Slimane).

and THIS!

Carine Roitfeld's favorite model Lara Stone and her BREAST!

Source: NYMAG

Tom Ford+French VOGUE in December=Super FASHYON!

I'm so excited if the rumors are true...

That Tom Ford will be an editor at Paris/French Vogue in December.

Source: fashionindie