Carine Roitfeld by Karl Lagerfeld

 

CARINE ROITFELD 

BY KARL LAGERFELD

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Carine Roitfeld / In Her Own Words

Carine Roitfeld

Carine Roitfeld 

in Her Own Words

LAIRD BORRELLI-PERSSON
May 31, 2019

It makes total sense that the first product Carine Roitfeld is releasing under her own brand is scents. Fragrances can trigger submerged memories, stir up emotional responses, and rouse desire—which is exactly what characterizes this editor’s work. Roitfeld is this year’s recipient of the CFDA’s Founder’s Award, created in honor of Eleanor Lambert, who put American fashion on the map. Roitfeld, for her part, introduced a boldly sensual aesthetic that defined the 1990s and continues to be influential today. One imagines she would have been Helmut Newton’s dream. Certainly her talents have been highly valued by designers like Tom Ford, Karl Lagerfeld, and Riccardo Tisci.

 

Carine Roitfeld

Carine Roitfeld’s Initial Foray

More than a year after her exit from French Vogue, the editor has a new magazine to call her own.

ByMILES SOCHAP
APRIL 9, 2012, 12:01AM

The name of Carine Roitfeld’s new magazine, closely guarded for months, has been in plain sight for a decade.

“CR,” the handwritten initials that appeared under all her editor’s letters during her 10 years at the helm of French Vogue, will be scrawled across the matte cover of her new biannual, with the first issue slated for September.

Roitfeld’s Return

 

Carine Roitfeld by Karl Lagerfeld

Roitfeld’s Return

By Emma Brown

Photographed by Karl Lagerfeld

April 9, 2012

Karl Lagerfeld Asks Carine Roitfeld How Far She Can Take an Image

Carine Roitfeld’s Initial Foray

Poor American Vogue is getting a double dose of new competition. Last week, Vogue Paris announced plans to publish an English version of the magazine (their exact Twitter words were “France gave the US the Statue of Liberty, now we are taking Vogue.fr to the wider world . . . get ready for #VogueParisinEnglish”). This week Carine Roitfeld, the woman who made the English-speaking world apired to read Vogue Paris, divulged quite a number of details about her new magazine to WWD. Roitfeld’s ‘zine will be titled CR, with offices in The Standard Hotel (the one on the Bowery). The first issue is purportedly 288 pages, with 100 pages of advertising and no front-of-book section, only fashion spreads and full-length articles. Although the majority of the magazine will be written in English, contributors can and will write articles in their mother-tongue. Conde Nast is not involved with CR.

INTERVIEW

Karl Lagerfeld Asks Carine Roitfeld How Far She Can Take an Image

Karl Lagerfeld Asks Carine Roitfeld
How Far She Can Take an Image

By Karl Lagerfeld

Photographed by Karl Lagerfeld

August 18, 2011

Although Carine Roitfeld is no longer the editor of French Vogue, she remains steadily at the perch of the fashion world, standing atop those super-high bondage-referencing heels that she partly made a staple of Parisian style (along with close-fitting pencil skirts, black leather, cinch-waist toppers, and if any woman dared follow her dictates, a little nipple). But la femme parisienne, which Roitfeld very much is, makes her own ground wherever she walks. After all, it is Roitfeld who, with Tom Ford and Mario Testino, started a movement of overt sexuality in fashion with their campaign for Gucci in the ’90s, which she later polemicized with her redesign for the French edition of Vogue as the hard-edged emblem of “erotic chic” during her aughties tenure at the magazine.

The Paris-born Roitfeld put in her paces first as a model before slipping behind the camera in 1975 to become a freelance stylist for French Elle, her home base for many years. In the early ’90s, Roitfeld hooked up with Testino at French Glamour, the just-launched and still malleable glossy, where the pair translated his iconic nudes as somewhat-more-clothed existentially bored bourgeoisie waifs with Roitfeld’s deft styling. These images caught the attention of Ford, who brought the duo on board at Gucci where they created an in-your-face aesthetic of slashed-to-the-navel cleavage and racily imprinted monograms that went on to define a fashion generation. Roitfeld also brought her signature edge to editorial shoots for The Face, Vogue, and French Vogue — where she succeeded Joan Juliet Buck as the woman in charge in 2001.