French Vogue’s editor goes on her own, rocks out with awesome book

13 Dec 2011, Posted by Cape Town Girl in business, fashion, magazines, 0 Comments

Since Carine Roitfeld left Vogue France a year ago, she’s been working on this awesome book called Irreverent that would make a GREAT CHRISTMAS PRESENT (hint hint).

“Carine Roitfeld’s influence on fashion is first and foremost her own doing–the fruit of that edgy, chic, and audacious glamour that is hers and hers alone,” Cathy Horyn writes in the forward. “Her style is as sharp and assertive as it is hard to describe, for it depends as much on how she wears the clothes as the brand and labels she chooses.”

The book itself: Irreverent serves as a visual history of a career among the highest echelons of fashion-world elite. More than 360 pages of tear sheets and photographs chronicle Roitfeld’s work since the early 1990s with Tom Ford at Gucci, at Elle and The Face, and with close friend Mario Testino at Vogue. I LOVE hearing stories about how people, who have done well at companies then break out to do their own thing. I am convinced that this is when the good stuff really starts happening. It’s an exciting time to be an exceptional individual – I for one am way more interested in the individuals behind big name companies than I am in the companies themselves. Put it this way – I would much rather read Anna Wintour’s blog than Vogue. Just putting it out there Ms W ;)