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carine!
September 9, 2012

Carine Roitfeld’s Classy CR Launch Party at the Frick

By Charlotte Cowles

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“It’s very different from my last party,” observed Carine Roitfeld, surveying her guests in the marble-floored atrium of the Frick Museum on the Upper East Side. This was an understatement: A year ago almost to the day, Carine held a rollicking karaoke party for her Barneys campaign at a strip club on the West Side Highway. Last night, she celebrated the inaugural issue of her new magazine, CR Fashion Book, with a formal, Mercedes Benz–sponsored black tie affair on the Upper East Side; the invitations instructed men to wear tuxedos and women to wear long gowns. “I want to do something different, more classic,” she said. “After all, I am a grandma now.” As for the dress code: “It’s a bit démodé, no? But I think there’s something very chic about the long dress.”

Carine’s daughter, new mom Julia Restoin-Roitfeld, was in attendance wearing a ruffly black Dolce & Gabbana gown. She said she was “very flattered” by CR’s birth-themed debut issue, which was inspired by her recent pregnancy. (Four-month-old enfant Romy was home with dad Robert Konjic, Julia explained. “He has to leave early tomorrow, so he’s being the babysitter tonight.”) Despite all the babies gracing CR’s pages, Julia doesn’t plan to have Romy featured anytime soon: “I want to keep her private for right now. She has lots of time to do that later. There will be many more CR’s — she can do it in a few years.”

Although Julia’s been taking it easy this summer, she said she’s excited to start designing again soon. “My daughter is inspiring me so much already,” she said, adding that she might want to try her hand at maternitywear. “There’s a lot of maternity clothes and blogs about mothers and all that, but there’s not so many from a glamorous, fashion point of view,” she said, “So I think there’s a need for something there.”

Also eager to talk babies was Olivier Zahm, whose longtime girlfriend Natacha Ramsay is about to give birth to their first child together (Zahm has another daughter from an earlier relationship). “But I am not obsessed with all babies like Carine,” he said. “Just obsessed with my own.” 

As the evening progressed, guests sweated to “Cat Daddy” and cheered when Champagne glasses smashed on the ground. (To our severe disappointment, cover girl Kate Upton stopped by so briefly that she didn’t make it to the dance floor.) Alexander Wang swung by before heading to his own after-party, and a rumor that Beyonce was performing turned out to be false. Meanwhile, model after model swept in, including Karen Elson, Karlie Kloss, Bar Refaeli, Isabeli Fontana, and Lindsey Wixson, who was pictured headless (thanks to some photoshopping) in the new CR. “I was a very round, very happy baby. I drooled all the time,” she told us, sipping a glass of water. “I was pretty cute, though … the dimples.” See all the guests in our slideshow.

Related: Exclusive Video: Carine Roitfeld on CR Fashion Book

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Jack McCollough, Marte Mei van Haaster, Lazaro Hernandez  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
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Isabeli Fontana  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Waris Ahluwalia, Demet Muftuoglu Eseli  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Martin Solomon, James Kaliardos  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Saskia De Brauw, Giovanna Battaglia  Photo: David X Pruttingnyc.com/BFA
Sally Hershberger, John Demsey, Alina Cho  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Doutzen Kroes  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Bruce Weber, Kate Upton, Stephen Gan  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, Carine Roitfeld, Andre Balazs  Photo: David X Pruttingnyc.com/BFA
Margherita Missoni  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Ben Gorham, Johan Lindeberg  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Marte Mei van Haaster, Bill Cunningham  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Kate Upton  Photo: David X Pruttingnyc.com/BFA
Richard Chai  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Jeremy Everett, Gaia Repossi, Joseph Altuzarra, Seth Weissman  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Bruce Weber, Andre J.  Photo: David X Pruttingnyc.com/BFA
DJ Nick Cohen  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Anna Dello Russo   Photo: David X Pruttingnyc.com/BFA
Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, Carine Roitfeld, Christian Restoin, Julia Restoin Roitfeld  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Leigh Lezark  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Carine Roitfeld, Andre Balazs  Photo: David X Pruttingnyc.com/BFA
Santiago Gonzalez, China Chow  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Karen Elson, Derek Blasberg  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Nadine-Isabelle Baier, Carine Roitfeld, Bettina Haussman  Photo: Billy Farrellnyc.com/BFA
Jenna Courtin-Clarins, Lulu Buti, Claire Courtin-Clarins, Caroline Sieber, Prisca Courtin-Clarins, Virginie Courtin-Clarins  Photo: Billy Farr... Jenna Courtin-Clarins, Lulu Buti, Claire Courtin-Clarins, Caroline Sieber, Prisca Courtin-Clarins, Virginie Courtin-Clarins  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Jake Deutsch, Brian Atwood  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Olivier Zahm  Photo: David X Pruttingnyc.com/BFA
Bill Cunningham, Andre Leon Talley  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Faran Krentcil, Leigh Lezark, Prisca Courtin-Clarins  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Michael Avedon, Carine Roitfeld  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Ryuichi Sakamoto  Photo: David X Pruttingnyc.com/BFA
Joan Smalls  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Andre J.  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Angela Lindvall  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Tom Sachs, Sarah Hoover  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Genevieve Jones, Eli Mizrahi  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Sofia Sanchez  Photo: David X Pruttingnyc.com/BFA
Harry Brant, Karlie Kloss  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Izabel Goulart  Photo: David X Pruttingnyc.com/BFA
Derek Blasberg, Jessica Hart  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Francesco Carrozzini  Photo: David X Pruttingnyc.com/BFA
Ku-Ling Siegel, Harry Brant, Evan Yurman  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Daniel Urzedo, Izabel Goulart, Carine Roitfeld, Alessandra Ambrosio, Ana Khouri  Photo: David X Pruttingnyc.com/BFA
Stephen Gan, Carine Roitfeld  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Lindsey Wixson  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Alessandra Ambrosio  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Magdalena Frackowiak, Edita Vilkeviciute  Photo: David X Pruttingnyc.com/BFA
Shala Monroque  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Constance Jablonski, Catherine McNeil  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Stephanie LaCava  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Alexia Niedzielski  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Ryuichi Sakamoto  Photo: David X Pruttingnyc.com/BFA
Stephen Alesch  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Carine Roitfeld  Photo: David X Pruttingnyc.com/BFA
Carine Roitfeld, DJ Nick Cohen  Photo: David X Pruttingnyc.com/BFA
Caroline Sieber  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Evelien Joos  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Clement  Photo: David X Pruttingnyc.com/BFA
Bruce Weber, Nan Bush, Victor Alfaro  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Bar Refaeli  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Constance Jablonski, Chris Gay, Catherine McNeil  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Giovanna Battaglia  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Victor Alfaro, Mario Sorrenti, Dennis Freedman, Nan Bush, Mary Frey  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Laila Gohar  Photo: David X Pruttingnyc.com/BFA
Jenna Courtin-Clarins, Prisca Courtin-Clarins  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Cecilia Dean  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Marie-Amelie Sauve, Carine Roitfeld, Anna Dello Russo  Photo: David X Pruttingnyc.com/BFA
Carine Roitfeld, Peter Brant Jr.  Photo: David X Pruttingnyc.com/BFA
Alexander Wang  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
Stephen Sumner, Glenda Bailey, James Kaliardos  Photo: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com
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