INTERVIEW
Carine Roitfeld on styling Kim Kardashian and taking up smoking at 64
The French queen of fashion tells Hilary Rose about her life in Paris and what advice she’d give the Princess of Wales
Carine Roitfeld: “At French Vogue you have a crown. When you leave you lose your crown”
STEPHANE CARDINALE/CORBIS/GETTY IMAGES
The Times
Carine Roitfeld pushes her hair out of her face to peer at me and asks if it’s OK to smoke. Seeing as she, the grande dame of French fashion and former editor of French Vogue, is at home in Paris and I’m in London, it’s really none of my business. She only started smoking five years ago at the age of 64, which seems a little, shall we say, perverse. She shrugs. “I like it. It’s better than smoking at 20, you know? I started doing tattoos at 68,” she says, waggling her fingers in front of the camera. “I have tattoos on my fingers, all the first initials of people I love, dead or alive. And I have a piercing here that I didn’t
