Carine Roitfeld Biography

Name : Carine Roitfeld

Born : September 19, 1954 (age 57)

Residence : Paris

Occupation : Editor Stylist

Carine Roitfeld is the Editor-in-Cheif of, Paris Vogue. At 18 Carine began her modeling career being scouted on the street in paris by a british photographers assistant. Later, She became a writer and then a stylist for French ELLE. 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. Roitfeld and Testino soon after began working as a team, doing advertising work as well as shoots for American and French Vogue. Roitfeld went on to work as a consultant and muse for Tom Ford at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent for six years. She was approached by Conde Nast International Chairman Jonathan Newhouse to edit French Vogue in 2001.

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. 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. In April 2006, there were rumors that Roitfeld was being approached by Hearst Corporation to take over Glenda Bailey's editor-in-chief position at U.S. Harper's Bazaar.

She has contributed to the images of Gucci, Missoni, Versace, Yves Saint-Laurent, and Calvin Klein. On December 17, 2010, Carine Roitfeld resigned after ten years of service to concentrate on personal projects. She left the magazine at the end of January 2011. Speculation that she would be joining Tom Ford at his namesake company were refuted by the latter. She was succeeded at French Vogue on February 1, 2011 by Emmanuelle Alt, who had served as Fashion Director under Roitfeld.