Carine Roitfeld on why she doesn’t care about ageing: ‘I’m lucky – in France we never think this way’
telegraph.co.ukThe Devil Wears Prada. That was 2006, when Roitfeld was riding high as the more-French-than-you’d-think-plausible editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris, as it was then called.
Anna Wintour, on whom the ‘Devil’ of the film’s title was modelled, was in one of her career troughs.Many thought Wintour wouldn’t survive the ignominy of a film that set out to ridicule her and her belief system, and plenty more wanted to make trouble by positing Roitfeld as her replacement, not so silently cheering as the two ‘fictional’ queen bees slugged it out on the big screen.‘I like that film,’ says Roitfeld, somewhat mischievously in her Clouseau-esque English when we meet in the fashionable London hotel where she’s staying.
It’s in a part of Clerkenwell that looks just like midtown Manhattan. Perhaps this similarity makes for ease of transition when Roitfeld, now 67, visits her daughter Julia and grandchildren Romy and George, who live in London, and her son Vladimir, who lives in New York. ‘It was funny, non?
The Devil Wears Prada. And I like Anna. Well, maybe not like exactly. But I respect her. And she’s a good mother.’In the end, it was Roitfeld who, four years later, left her job (jumped or was pushed?
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