Carine Roitfeld

The brand is more important than the editor, Prada’s £2,500 perfume, and more

August 27, 2012 5:38 pm by Vanessa Friedman

What’s been happening over the last two weeks? What’s the news we can use? Here are my top three recent titbits — the ones that at first glance don’t seem so important, but on second look have outsize implications, from NY Fashion Week’s first casuality to Prada’s new super-expensive perfume, and the rise of the magazine brand as star.
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The career lessons of Carine Roitfeld’s brand

April 10, 2012 3:54 pm by Vanessa Friedman

Ex-French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld’s transformation into brand is now complete: she has revealed her new magazine, due out next September to coincide with fashion weeks, will be called….wait for it…CR. Once upon a time if you were forced to leave one job, you looked around for another, but Ms Roitfeld offers an alternative career blueprint. The question is whether it will become the norm? Read more

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Will this sell magazines?

February 6, 2012 9:51 pm by Vanessa Friedman

In case anyone harboured any doubts about Emmanuelle Alt’s French Vogue resembling Carine Roitfeld’s French Vogue In Any Way, Ms Alt has apparently decided to put them to rest by creating the following inexplicable video, starring herself, the French TV personality Mlle Agnes, and assorted models, all looking seriously dorky, to launch the mag’s new website.

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What Carine will do next

March 25, 2011 6:28 pm by Carola Long

Finally, an answer to the Biggest Question In Fashion. No not who’s taking over at Dior, but what Carine Roitfeld will do after French Vogue. Since she left her position of editor last year and was succeeded by Emmanuelle Alt, there have been rumours flying about her next move, from working with Tom Ford to heading up a French edition of Harpers Bazaar.  Read more

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Old media starts catfighting by the catwalks

February 10, 2011 6:29 pm by Vanessa Friedman

Forget all that stuff about old media fashion editors being threatened by the presence of bloggers in various fashion show front rows – that was SO last season. This season, as New York fashion week kicks off (whoopee!!! ), it’s all about old media taking on old media. Read more

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Ooh la la: French Vogue gets new editor

January 8, 2011 2:30 am by Vanessa Friedman

International has finally named a new editor for French Vogue after former editor Carine Roitfeld resigned pre-xmas. Emmanuelle Alt, Ms Roitfeld’s tall, skinny, jeans-and-stiletto-wearing, not-so-mini-me fashion director has gotten her ex-boss’s job. Read more

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New York Times predicts death of fashion mags, doesn’t realise it

November 12, 2010 2:34 pm by Vanessa Friedman

Yesterday Ruth La Ferla wrote a provocative story in the NYT about the rise of the fashion editor as star. That’s a big deal, but what she didn’t say was what this meant for the glossies that employ them: bad news.
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