Roitfelds On Best Dressed List

It is official — Vanity Fair has just announced their International Best Dressed List for 2010 and Julia and Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld are ranked among the stylish inductees. Visit Vanity Fair for a slide show featuring the entire list of the best of the Best Dressed. (Heh, just noticed the typo in Vladimir's name in the heading! I would be happy to employ my editorial skills on your behalf, Condé Nast... just say the word...)

Julia Restoin-Roitfeld photograph © 2009 Luc Castel/Angeli/Fame. All Rights Reserved.
Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld photograph © 2010 Venturelli/WireImage. All Rights Reserved.

Julia Restoin-Roitfeld: Debutante

Julia Restoin-Roitfeld was 21 years old when she made her stunning debut at Le Bal des Débutantes which takes place annually at Hôtel de Crillon. Mademoiselle Julia was presented to society wearing a leopard print dress by Versace and accompanied by Antoine de Moussac, also of France. I think her departure from the traditional demure white gown works brilliantly; note as well that she opted for a bunch of flowers behind one ear rather than the clichéd tiara. What do you think of Julia's debutante look?

Below is a list of the young women that descended the staircase along with Julia in 2001 with details for each of the debutantes including her country of origin, her escort, his country of origin, and the designer of her gown for the ball. Read The Story of the Ball on the official web site for more about the evolution of this fascinating tradition over the years.

Les "Nouvelles Débutantes" 2001
et leurs Cavaliers 
et leurs Maisons de Couture

Barbara Berlusconi, Italy
SAS Prince Dimitri della Torre e Tasso, Italy
Chanel

Laurence de Bourbon-Busset, France
Antoine de Vulpillières, France
Pierre Balmain

SAS Princesse Paola Orleans e Bragança Sapieha, Brazil
Paul de Ponton d'Amécourt, France
Gaultier Paris

Gwenolée de Carmoy, France
Tristan de Silguy, France
Pierre Cardin

Laxmi Dalamal, India
Bharat Singh, India
Lecoanet Hemant

Comtesse Marie-Catherine Douglas, Germany
Charles de Chabaneix, France
Hanae Mori

Kaya Endo, Japan
Gonzague Requillart, France
Louis Feraud

Pilar Fernandez-Susino, Spain
Fernando Ramos de Lucas, Spain
Jean-Louis Scherrer

Amanda Hearst, United States
Charles d'Arcy Irvine, Ireland
Carolina Herrera

Lydia Hearst-Shaw, United States
Matthew Armstrong, United States
Thierry Mugler

Aleksandra Kwasniewska, Poland
Alexis de Béchade, France
Ewa Minge

Mélanie Mallet, France
Geoffroy de Boissieu, France
Yves Saint Laurent

Amélie de Mony-Pajol, France
Adrien de Mony-Pajol, France
Jean-Charles de Castelbajac

Julie-Chloé Mougeolle, France
Mathieu Bellahsen, France
Seredin & Vassillev

Violet Naylor-Leyland, United Kingdom
Tom Naylor-Leyland, United Kingdom
Bruce Oldfield

Cleo Pakenham, United Kingdom
David Hogan Hern, United Kingdom
Neil Cunningham

Carolina Partheni-Angelopoulos, Greece
Paul Charles Ricard, France
Givenchy

Olivia Peiretti-Paradisi, Monaco
Victor Leclercq, Monaco
Franck Sorbier

Julia Restoin-Roitfeld, France
Antoine de Moussac, France
Versace

Marquise Laura Serra, Italy
Charles de Nervaux, France
Valentino

Sarah Taylor, United Kingdom
Johnny Weinberg, United Kingdom
Vivienne Westwood

Vanessa Traina, United States
Olivier de la Ferrière, France
Christian Dior

Victoria Traina, United States
Duarte Eca de Queiroz Correira de Campos, Portugal
Christian Lacroix

Marie de Villepin, France
Thomas Pallardy, France
Emanuel Ungaro

All of the debutantes are wearing jewelry provided by Mikimoto.

Julia Restoin-Roitfeld debutante photographs courtesy of lebal.fr and Fashion Spot

Lula As Carine Roitfeld

Check out these clever illustrations of Carine Roitfeld and her fashion posse created by my lovely friend Lula, they are like little trading cards to collect. Pictured perfectly here are Carine, Anna Dello Russo, Giovanna Battaglia, Julia Restoin-Roitfeld, and Olivier Zahm. Visit Lula at The Subject I Know Best to see more of her cool way of illustrating fashion's brightest stars.

Fashion illustrations © 2010 Lula — The Subject I Know Best. All Rights Reserved.

Update on dimanche 25 juillet 2010 by kellina

According to their Twitter accounts, at least two of the subjects featured are happy with the likeness... Giovanna Battaglia and Anna Dello Russo are talking about the cute illustrations!! Giovanna has added the images to her Twitpics as well.

Restoin-Roitfeld And Repossi In Chanel

Just a quickie: I love the contrast in this photograph of Julia Restoin-Roitfeld and Gaia Repossi wearing Chanel front row at Chanel as recently seen in Vogue China. Even their Czarina rings (designed by Repossi) contrast, Julia wearing gold and Gaia in silver. JRR's outfit is the ultimate in summer chic, je l'adore totalement.

Julia Restoin-Roitfeld and Gaia Repossi © 2010 Condé Nast. All Rights Reserved.

I Want To Dress Like A Roitfeld

My dear friend Kate Ringo Suzuki paid me the ultimate compliment and invited me to write a guest post for her blog Everyday Glamour. Of course the subject is Carine Roitfeld...

Would you like to learn the secrets to dressing like a Roitfeld? Specifically we will focus on how to dress like Carine Roitfeld, perhaps the most challenging of all. I say "challenging" because if you wish to dress like her son Vladimir, it is simple: don black trousers and either a black or white shirt underneath a black jacket, likely Armani. Julia is a bit less formulaic: a short dress by a newly discovered designer, stilettos and bag by Miu Miu, and stunning original jewelry designed by an FOJ (friend of Julia), perhaps a classmate from Parsons. Loads more variety, yet Julia's style choices are achievable provided you have the figure and the dough.

Now we come to the mother lode of style: Carine Roitfeld, editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris and editorial director of Vogue Hommes International among her many influential roles in the world of fashion (amFar and ANDAM come to mind immediately as other examples).

How to dress like Carine Roitfeld:

1. Awake at 7 a.m., stretch, Pilates.
2. Scent with Opium Body Lotion by Yves Saint Laurent.
3. Create smoky eyes using Yves Saint Laurent liner, groom brows.

Yes, this is all part of dressing like a Roitfeld! Ambience, ma chère, plus nonchalance. Très Roitfeld. Never forget that Pilates provides the perfect underpinnings for any chic ensemble. Carine's signature look combines classic designer pieces, a blouse, a tailored jacket, a knee length skirt, often in black with bare legs and killer shoes. She is most likely to be seen taking risks with transparent clothing underneath a professional exterior while peering mysteriously out from behind her hair. Like I said, challenging...

I will leave you with a few thoughts from Carine Roitfeld's Twitter account:

• Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
• Make style an expression of your soul.
• Fashion is something you buy, STYLE is something you OWN!
• Fashion is not about utility. It is merely a piece of iconography, to express an individual's identity.
• Fashion isn't to make you look attractive, it's to make you look different.
• Never wear anything that panics the animal.
• I dress for women and I undress for men.

Carine Roitfeld photographs courtesy of Fashion Spot.