life after Vogue
She turned 58 weeks last and was recently a grandmother, but when the time catching up with her, she did not make it easy. If our coverage portrait of a femme fatale ballet toned shot by photographer Pirelli Calendar, this is not proof that it is fabulous, believe that MAC to launch a line of make-up base, his personal style. Check his masterful style in recent campaigns for Chanel, Givenchy and Barney in New York. Browse the book Little Black Jacket, they created together in homage to Lagerfeld Chanel box cutting board. Surprising that powerful less than two years after his break with the processing in the fashion world stable, has CR Fashion Book, a biannual magazine with 150 pages ads, launched the contributions of Charles and Tom Ford and his initials on the cover. Now to start her own perfume and start proposing their own line of clothing, "Carine Roitfeld" design is also a registered covetable as that grace its pages.
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Carine 2.0 is all the more impressive considering his humble beginnings. Departure Roitfeld Vogue Paris has embroiled in scandal. The December 2010 edition edited by Tom Ford, including a Christmas gift guide, the child models presented in evening dresses and heavy makeup adult beds lying on a tiger print. The media reaction was outrage and Paris. His resignation was soon followed.
And they jump or was she pushed? Roitfeld claims that it intends to continue after a decade in charge (and said as much in pre-scandal interview) left. Admittedly, this is not to get the first pictures of his ankle. "Carine Roitfeld: Irreverent," the biographical collection of images and interviews contains evidence of magazines models posing with knives to show surgical instruments, bloody slabs of beef. In Whatever Happened to Baby Jane topic shoot Lara Stone is obviously crazy drugs and alcohol. Tribal masks and jewelry are in S & M-type images (in the book) is characteristic of the mixed quote "This was another shoot I almost started. It was very courageous, to make jewelry." These sites will also give you an idea of ??the kind of "chic" erotic, by attempting to empower fashionistas.
"I do not want to represent women than victims of male desire, sexual objects ... Even if I go to a lot of bondage [model] is always chic and not as it is suffering - that makes it more difficult, I think," said They book the.
Carine career can getting a makeover, but his style Helmut Newton inspired sexpot intact. Her outfit includes a signed pencil skirt, shirt inspired linen top custom bracelet or "love" Cartier and strappy stilettos. It does not handbags, but he likes a big coat, fur or leather especially. Stockings or tights bare legs and it did not strike pants. Often hidden behind her hair brown elegant. "I'm a shy person and if you have your hair off your face, it protects you. It has my signature."
New MAC collection allows you to get nude lips, put the whole night, the eyes and fingernails neutral or blood red. His look is undeniably sexy, but not as open as his provocative work.
"My job allows me to express erotic fantasies and show pictures of the experience through the production of images, but not in reality. My private life is much more distinguished and less stuffy than fashion photography, I guess."
Carine grew in Auteuil, Paris wealthy 16th Arrondissement. His earliest memory of fashion is the application of eyeliner wearing Pucci mother before evening.
"The beauty of my mother profoundly. She dressed in haute couture clothes and was always immaculately turned out, even at home."
She describes her father, a film producer from Russia and poker buddy Roger Vadim, incompatible. Than presence, but as God in his life
"Like the song says, my heart belongs to Daddy. Certainly it was, who wants me to do something creative." You have seventeen, she began modeling and style freelance for French Elle magazine. When they convened in a folder Parisian label equipment for a session, they met the second love of his life: the founder of the brand. Christian Restoin and Carine remain unmarried, but have been together for more than 30 years. "Sisley" as it is affectionately known, locked his business in 2001, so that he could take over their two children, Julia and Vladimir and support as new editor of Vogue Paris.
Carine has a kindred spirit in creative Mario Testino, whom she met through friends and then brought IT found.
"I had my best ideas when I worked with him. I came with my best scenarios. He really listened to me and had the same sense of what is chic that I had."
One of their margins for 1994 Glamour Paris has attracted the attention of Tom Ford. When Carine was introduced to the designer and Gucci, he was thrilled.
"It was a kind of underwear gray jersey long, believe it or not, with a pair of strappy shoes," he told CNN showed that first meeting. "She was on the rear straps her heels on foot. It was incredibly hot and sweaty people, but Carine looked quite cool and spotless."
Testino, Roitfeld and Ford formed a dream team of creative Gucci-mania began a fad for a decade. Officially, Carine brand consultant, but his role is much more important in the creation of the Gucci woman.
"I did not really work on the clothing or materials. He was just looking at the way I dressed [...] as I he my legs and into my pocket. And take it all to me and after him on the line and call me his muse, "she revealed.
As the editor, it was often his muse. The fashion shows were shot in her apartment and entered her family, friends and personal taste as much as possible.
"I have always held a [...] these people have connected with me, but that's how I am. Closely related profession and family."
It's the food, less provocative side Carine it can engage the contents of his heart to his new American publisher, Visionaire.
The first issue of CR Fashion Book is titled Rebirth.
"When I learned that my daughter, Julia waited, I immediately began to babies and young mothers plans, fashion shows in New York and Paris to see. Birth and rebirth all around. I was obsessed."
Coverage includes Sports Illustrated model Kate Upton with arms full of chickens, by Bruce Weber (a contribution that remains faithful to Condé Nast) shot. Infants, children and maternity paraphernalia everywhere. It also seems more like a happy spring problem, not at all in keeping with the color palette this season twilight, and it is even more directional. Fashion is not the time to wait to catch up, either.
Carine Roitfeld makeup collection for MAC is at Brown Thomas 4th October. Carine Roitfeld: Irreverent, edited by Olivier Zahm and Alex Wiederin is published by Rizzoli.