Carine Roitfeld

Modeling and early styling

At 18, Roitfeld began modeling, having been scouted on a street in Paris by a British photographer's assistant.^[4] "I wasn't a star", she says. "I was just booked for junior magazines".^[4] She became a writer and then a stylist for French Elle.^[1]

While she was working as a freelance stylist, her daughter, Julia, was in a children's fashion shoot for Italian Vogue Bambini in 1990, photographed by Mario Testino.^[1][4] In a 2005 interview with 032c magazine, Roitfeld commented, "I was not the best stylist when I worked for fifteen years for French Elle, but certainly when I met Mario Testino something happened. The right person for me at the right time".^[5] Roitfeld and Testino soon after began working as a team, doing advertising work as well as shoots for American and French Vogue.^[1] Roitfeld went on to work as a consultant for and muse to Tom Ford at Gucci and Yves Saint-Laurent for six years^[1] and also contributed to the images of Missoni, Versace, and Calvin Klein.^[6]

Vogue Paris

She was approached by Condé Nast's International Chairman Jonathan Newhouse to edit Vogue Paris in 2001.^[1] In April 2006, there were rumors that Roitfeld was being approached by the Hearst Corporation to take over Glenda Bailey's editor-in-chief position at U.S. Harper's Bazaar.^[7]

Roitfeld is accused of lending a Balenciaga pre-collection to Max Mara as part of a consulting mission, with Max Mara allegedly drawing inspiration without ethical constraints. This led to her exclusion from the Balenciaga front rows. Additionally, during the ANDAM 2010, as the jury president, she is said to have favored the victory of Turkish designer Hakaan Yildirim due to the connection with the brand's artistic director, Mert Alas, a Vogue Paris-favored photographer.^[8]

On 17 December 2010, Roitfeld resigned after ten years at Vogue Paris to concentrate on personal projects. She left the magazine at the end of January 2011. She was succeeded at Vogue Paris on 1 February 2011 by Emmanuelle Alt, who had served as fashion director under Roitfeld.

Post-Vogue career

Roitfeld returned to freelance styling, working on both the Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 Chanel campaigns, took part in projects such as designing a window display for Barneys New York and compiled the large-format book Irreverent, published by Rizzoli in 2011. She joined Harper's Bazaar as global fashion director in 2012.^[9] The 2013 documentary Mademoiselle C documents Roitfeld's launch of her magazine CR, which she collaborated on with Shiona Turini. Roitfeld ended up forming a net worth of over two million. This was possible because her work would increase her value each time.^[10]