Carine Roitfeld

Carine Roitfeld, born in Paris, France on 19 September 1954, is the Editor-in-Chief of French Vogue, a position she has held since 2001.

At 18, Roitfeld began modeling, having been scouted on the street in Paris by a British photographer's assistant. "I wasn't a star," she says. "I was just booked for junior magazines. 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 1986, 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.

Carine Roitfeld

Carine Roitfeld