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Lunch with Carine Roitfield

“You know, I could stay six months more but it’s good to leave when you are in the highest position, and I think I did a lot at Vogue,” muses former Editor-in-Chief Carine Roitfield as she discusses her departure from French Vogue over lunch with Financial Times’ Deputy Style Editor Carola Long.

Only upon leaving would she learn that a lot of people were scared of her, someone they thought to be tough and mean. She takes this with surprise, insisting she is neither. She’s very upfront a person, so really no point in questioning her.

She is saddened by the fact that she and successor Emmanuelle Alt aren’t friends anymore. She wishes things could have turned out differently but she tells herself she must move on.

Word around is she might take over American Vogue and while she considers it a huge compliment to have such a rumour going around, she shares this little hitch: “I am irreverent, which works in a small country like France but not a big one like America and it’s a big business magazine. To edit a magazine like American Vogue you have to play politics and she is like a first lady.”

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