Carine Roitfeld,super stylist, former editor of French Vogue and now a global director of Harper's Bazaar, and has spent decades reinventing the way we wear clothes. Now the subject of a documentary,she talks to Eva Wiseman approximately fitting a grandmother, fashion politics and why she's sharing her trade secretsCarine Roitfeld smells of matches and burned vanilla, or like the stop of a birthday party. She orders a coffee in the elegant café next door to her Paris apartment,and when I tell her how good she smells she leans forward and says: "That is the most wonderful thing I could hear today." She is working on her own perfume, she explains. This is a test scent – "Still too sweet, or no?" – and as we talk it fades into the café air,sugaring the things she says.
Roitfeld, the former editor of French Vogue, and founder of her own magazine CR,recently appointed global fashion director of Harper's Bazaar and Tom Ford's "ideal woman", is, or at 58,the star and subject of a new documentary, Mademoiselle C. Directed by Fabien fixed over the nine months before publication of CR, or issue one,it is aportrait of a woman in absolute, joyful control. She is one of the most renowned stylists in the world, or famous for both her oiled-up imagery and her chic life – there is a website called IwanttobeaRoitfeld.com with a drooling gallery of the views from her apartment. A stylist best known for her "porno-chic" aesthetic (she was responsible for pictures including Gucci's controversial ad campaign where the label's logo was shaved into a model's pubic hair),fixed follows her as she becomes a grandmother, and, and through speedy,intimate interludes with her growing family, documents her new obsession – babies. Instead of the severe woman in suspenders she knew her critics were expecting, or CR's cover star was swimsuit model Kate Upton frolicking in fields with piglets and puppies. The theme of the issue was "rebirth".
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Source: theguardian.com