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Emmanuelle Alt is the New Editor-in-Chief of Vogue Paris
By Lauren Sherman
After less than a month of speculation, Vogue Paris has announced that its new editor-in-chief is Emmanuelle Alt.
Alt, a stylist known most recently for her work with Balmain and Isabel Marant, will replace Carine Roitfeld immediately, according to the magazine’s website. And here’s where we offload some gossip:
According to our reliable sources, Roitfeld and Alt haven’t been getting along recently. Roitfeld went to Jonathan Newhouse, complaining that “something had to be done” about the situation. Newhouse, “fed up” with Roitfeld’s shady dealings–that Balenciaga thing we reported on a year ago, the stuff Racked reported on last month–told the editor that the thing to be done was her resignation.
Given LVMH, Balenciaga, and other labels’ withdrawal from advertising in the magazine over the last year, this explanation doesn’t sound so crazy to us. Regardless, we’re still huge fans of Carine’s styling work, and we adore Emanuelle’s personal style. Whether or not Alt has the same unshakable point of view that makes Carine so powerful, we’ll soon find out. As she state’s on Vogue.fr, “It’s a great honor for me, but also a great pleasure to become the editor of Vogue Paris that I know so well. In working with very talented teams I will try to develop the the incredible potential of Vogue Paris.”
Tags: Carine Roitfeld, Emmanuelle Alt, Jonathan Newhouse, LVMH, Racked, Vogue Paris
Designer(s): Balenciaga
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Alt styles Balmain, Isabel Marant, and Gucci, NOT Balenciaga. That would be Marie-Amelie Sauve. fact checking?
Whoops–brain fart. Fixed.
“Tavi Gevinson Replaces Roitfeld at French Vogue”
http://thefashionscoop.tumblr.com/post/2694172894/tavi-gevinson-replaces-roitfeld-at-french-vogue
SO glad to see Vogue Paris heading in this new, different and totally unexpected direction.
But is it? Alt has been there a long time. Interesting about her falling out with Roitfeld, but she seems to be part of the problematic culture there. I think they should have appointed an outsider to get a fresh approach.
I guess my sarcasm isn’t translating as well as I had hoped. I meant that obviously it’s going to be boring and the same sort of magazine that it was under Carine (which in it’s last couple of issues, was incredibly boring)
I’d switched my magazine splurge to Vogue Italia a while ago.
I missed the sarcasm. I have heard others also say the magazine had gone stale under Roitfeld. It was the alleged cashola for placement in the magazine and other unpleasant rumours that bothered me more.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. If they had someone else completely new come in, people would have been up in arms about the new direction, but of course, keeping it on the same trajectory means that it’s too safe. This isn’t a case like Interview where the magazine and its image was suffering and needed an overhaul. Vogue Paris has been doing well, save for the issue of the advertisers, for quite some time.
I’m personally happy to see that she has the position, and I’m looking forward to the direction she will take with the magazine.
I’m interested to see what she does with the magazine! I think she’s great though, full emotions here: http://bit.ly/EmmanuelleAltered
Happy Emmanuelle Alt inauguration day!
Oops…. Cue rock chicks. Ho hum.
Love Emmanuelle Alt; hopefully she will feature more of Mlle Agnes on the website too.
So excited to see lots of edgy styling with Balmain paired with Isabel Marant! And Isabel Marant with Balmain! And Balmain with Isabel Marant! Such an exciting new, fresh approach to come.
But seriously, amazing stylist? Check. Fabulous personal style? Check. Editor skills? Probably not. Didn’t someone say to Racked that “she’s even less literate than Carine”?
Also, you totally missed out on Carine’s fuck up with the Tom Ford issue (little kids in make up and loincloths for clothes) and that absurd Daria Werbowy calendar that had nothing to do with fashion.
Lauren, I think a lot of what made Carine Roitfeld powerful was simply that she was the editor of Vogue – it is an august position in fashion and many are going to be quite sycophantic towards her (especially considering her fondness for wielding her power quite nakedly). She was able to realise her own vision and played her own favourites. The big question is, will Alt be able to rally advertisers fed up with Roitfeld’s self-interested ways? Or will they regard her as more of the same.
In the Kingdom of Boredom Fashion we keep on … pfff …
I guess this means we’ll still be seeing way too much Balmain :
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They also considered Tavi for the job!!!
http://thefashionscoop.tumblr.com/post/2694172894/tavi-gevinson-replaces-roitfeld-at-french-vogue
why you guys saying it would be Balmain + Marant overload with Alt at the helm? c’mon give her a chance. there’s no Alt magazine issue yet so stop assuming that her premiere issue will be filled with Balmain and Marant just because it’s her main clothing staple!
I do hope she learns from Roitfeld’s mistakes.
Shouldn’t Emmanuelle be with two m’s?
Not much thought went into writing this. Kind of sad IMO