Egon Schiele [DRAFT]

This is special. I was considering Carine's likes while trying to decide what to post and I remembered that Egon Schiele is her favorite artist. This is easy to remember because I love him as does Lou Doillon. But I wanted to know how I knew that. My search pulled up the first article that I ever read about Carine, the first photo I am conscious of seeing of Carine, shivers, does anyone hear the sound of pixie dust dropping?! Though it's more like an avalanche of bondage shoes and girls brandishing knives while dressed chicer then chic. Ooo pass my smelling salts, there's a good lad.

So clearly you'll want to know that the first article, as it shall henceforth be known, was "If looks could kill" by Sabine Durrant. Yes, she who wears black and fur contradicts herself a bit in this piece, but again with the subtle counterculture at which Carine excels:

Today she is wearing an off-one-shoulder off-white Prada dress. [1] It is startlingly 'evening' for an 11 a.m. appointment and when she gesticulates — which she does a lot — you expect a nipple to appear on the low-cut side (though it never quite does). The big brown chunky high shoes — 'I steal them,' [2] she says grandly [3] — are from the next Yves Saint Laurent collection. [4]

Round her neck is an unobtrusive cross ('I am not religious, I just like it') [5] and the 'strings', she tells me, have been replaced by Calvin Klein 'little shorts — feminine, very low'. Her pants are the only things she has on that she has paid for. 'Maybe if you write it, they send me some,' she says in her sweet, French-accented voice. 'You never know. My size is small.' [6]

Let's count the sins Carine commits here:

[1] Nudity at work

[2] Theft, greed, whatev

[3] Pride

[4] Immortality

[5] Sacrilege

[6] Shamelessness

Six in just two quick paras!! I was instantly smitten. Here was the role model to take me into the next decade and beyond — Carine Roitfeld. Disarmingly frank, funny, French, what was I to do? So, in closing, the Egon Schiele reference turned out to be in a different article altogether and we'll get to that another day.