CR Magazine Fashion Bookmarks Renaissance Carine Roitfeld

  The theme of the bi-annual fashion Carine Roitfeld is the brilliant new birth. On the cover is a young girl, a naked baby. Bring it, and it is a model with a handful of young turtles caught.

Babies are really the new black?

In fact, the images are a metaphor meta-comment mode for the rebirth after the departure of Roitfeld French Vogue editor two years ago, and his new life as a grandmother (his daughter Julia own little bird hatched this past spring).

"I have been with my daughter, a mother was obsessed," Roitfeld, 57, said sit published in the offices of loftlike Stephen Gan, the V and Visionaire and financed his new venture. "And if you're obsessed with something, you can see it everywhere," Roitfeld said in his patois signature. "And if it be a good time for me.'s Like a rebirth, too."

If this all sounds a bit self-referential, although this is what has always differentiated magazines Roitfeld. It is also part of this freaked her bosses at Condé Nast, the privately complained that his French Vogue Carine Roitfeld was completely on.

Certainly was in French Vogue sunk Roitfeld freshly grinded, image obsessed Helmut Newton: all models are bathed in black eyeliner, smoking cigarettes, and required to wear, so close that it's a miracle had bothered to dress up anything. In the fashion press and society pages Roitfeld and leopard clothes were everywhere. Her own children are accustomed to the pages of French Vogue party.

It is a testimony of moxie Roitfeld, rather than worrying about his critics after he was fired or quit, depending on whose story you believe, it is an affront and embraced the spotlight as never before. "It freed me," she said. She style Barneys fall campaign was turned on, and instead of models, she began to him. She made a picture book celebrating with Karl Lagerfeld Chanel jacket and appeared on the cover, dressed as Coco Chanel. It marks a MAC Cosmetics campaign and stood in their underwear.

And now comes CR Fashion Book, after having himself the title.

Roitfeld is serious about the brand. Recently read a biography of Diana Vreeland, Vreeland and more will take place "signed DV CR sign as I do." She thinks it is a sign of good luck.

It could be just a little bit now. Condé Nast would have prevented many of its best photographers do not work for CR Fashion Book. But some powerful friends stick their necks. Lagerfeld and Tom Ford (Gucci, whose work was heavily inspired by Roitfeld) took two breaks to take their lives to designer features. The magazine has 150 pages of ads, a fairly large number for a new publication. Moreover, it is difficult to hold a grudge against anyone who so much fun with his own celebrity.

"My son told me," Mom, you have become a brand. "I do not know," Roitfield said, adding that she wants to launch her own perfume. "You think I'm a brand?"