Carine Roitfeld (in my eyes) is probably the most perfect, admirable woman/person in fashion – creative, stylish, entrepreneurial, connected…the list goes on. So when I saw the fact that she had styled a throwback shoot in the current issue of V Magazine where Spanish model Dalianah Arekion takes on the role of a sixteen year old Carine (from her modelling days), I was all over it.
“The English photographer Tony Kent discovered me in the street in Paris when I was 16 and took me to Model Promotions, Elite Paris’s teenage division. After one season I went to London and signed with Bobton’s. These are my first and only modeling composites. On the far left I’m wearing a skirt that my mother made from souleiado, a very traditional French fabric used for napkins and table linens.” — Carine Roitfeld as told to Christopher Bartley
