Carine Roitfeld, editor of Vogue Paris, wearing a Balenciaga jacket.
The latest Paris fashion week gossip is that Carine Roitfeld and the entire Vogue Paris team have been blacklisted from the Balenciaga show. They were not at the latest runway show, and Carine told WWD “We’re blacklisted. It’s too bad, it’s a beautiful house and it’s French. I hope that it’s not forever.”
Normally I’d presume that the magazine or editor were unfair in some way, and therefore deserve the snub, but I somehow doubt this is the case with Carine. She’s certainly not a “down to earth kinda gal”, but is also not a horribly pretentious, wicked woman, and I always remember her to be quite decent to work with when she was styling the Sonia Rykiel shows. She stuck me as the type that is very professional, and cares about the industry a lot, and this is also very evident throughout the CNN documentary about her, which you can watch here. (Although I have to say some of the things she says about her daughter, and the fact that they are “not in competition with each other” weirds me out. I’d hate to have one of the most stylish women in the world as my mother.)
Balenciaga has yet to comment on the situation, but its only a matter of time before the reason why they have done this leaks to the press. They are also cutting all advertising with Vogue Paris, and not lending the magazine any samples. That is pretty much cutting off your nose to spite your face, so I’m guessing the reason is going to be pretty interesting.
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