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Carine Roitfeld Discusses Emmanuelle Alt, Galliano, Iggy Pop, and Vodka Shots

By , the Cut’s financial-advice columnist.  In addition to “My Two Cents,” she writes about work and parenting for the site. Previously, she was the senior features editor at Harper's Bazaar and a senior editor at the Cut. She was also the editorial director for MM.LaFleur. Her work has also been published in Glamour, Art in America, Politico, and other places.
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Condé Nast France president Xavier Romatet “didn’t like it” when Roitfeld put “nudity, transsexuals, men in suspenders” in French Vogue, she told the Financial Times’ Carola Long in an unusually revealing interview. “Me, I like to push boundaries, I am irreverent, but he would prefer something softer, more mainstream.” The former editor ate herrings while she chatted (to Long’s puzzlement, because “herrings just don’t seem all that chic”), and revealed her ritual of taking a vodka shot before going to parties so that she’ll arrive in a good mood. (She didn’t drink during the interview: “Me, I don’t have vodka at lunch.”)

Lunch with the FT: Carine Roitfeld [FT]

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Carine Roitfeld Discusses Emmanuelle Alt, Galliano, Iggy Pop, and Vodka Shots