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I ask her to tie it better on me, but she takes it off me and ties it better on herself – by not tying it at all.Ĭarine Roitfeld wears shirt by Balenciaga skirt by Tom Ford shoes by Manolo Blahnik ankle bracelets by Venyx. So I want to ask this most Parisienne of Parisiennes for her secrets – can she make me chic? I have this scarf, you see, and every time I tie it in a knot it doesn’t look right. My love life is so English it’s practically Chaucerian.

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It does seem to be true – she is even interested in my red handbag, which is made of fake leather, cost about £50 from a small animal-friendly brand she’s never heard of, and is bursting at the seams “because you put too much stuff in it,” she says, as if she’s my mum.Īfter too many years spent reading all those books about how to be chic like a Frenchwoman and hating them so much I’d feel compelled to go straight out and buy one about how to date like them, too, and then how to raise children who eat like French enfants, I feel I should be expert in how to be an insouciant yet glamorous Parisian – except it hasn’t worked at all. It is my strength, to be open-minded, always.” I feel totally comfortable with everyone. But people forget, because people forget everything. All the models are the exact same skinniness. I have brought the current issue of French Vogue with me and we flick through it together. “Would Anna Wintour ever allow such a thing?” asked the American website Jezebel at the time. She used unskinny models Crystal Renn and Lara Stone, and did a cover with the blonde, mainstream-looking model Carolyn Murphy prancing around with Andre J, a black transgender model in a dress and a beard. She loved cigarettes dangling from models’ mouths. She believed in bold ideas and she loved boobs, even naked on the cover. French Vogue, under her tenure from 2001 to 2011, was a force to be reckoned with.

It is my strength, to be open -minded, always