She si the daughter of Jacques Roitfeld. At 18, Carine Roitfeld began modeling, having been scouted on a street in Paris by a British photographer's assistant. "I wasn't a star", she says. "I was justbooked for junior magazines". She became a writer and then a stylist for French Elle. She was approached by Condé Nast's International Chairman Jonathan Newhouse to edit Vogue Paris in 2001. In April 2006, there were rumors that Roitfeld was being approached by the Hearst Corporation to take over Glenda Bailey's editor-in-chief position at U.S. Harper's Bazaar. In January 2010, she was named in Tatler magazine's top-10 best-dressed list. She was listed as one of the fifty best-dressed over 50 by The Guardian in March 2013. On 17 December 2010, Roitfeld resigned after ten years at Vogue Paris to con- centrate on personal projects. She left the magazine at the end of January 2011. She was succeeded at Vogue Paris on 1 February 2011 by Emmanuelle Alt, who had served as fashion director under Roitfeld. Roitfeld returned to freelance styling, working on both the Fal 2011 and Spring 2012 Chanel campaigns, took part in projects such as designing a window display for Barneys New York and compiled the large-format book Irreverent, published by Rizzoli in 2011. Carine Roitfeld went on to work as a consultant for and muse to Tom Ford at Gucci and Yves Saint- Laurent for six vears and also contributed to the images of Missoni, Versace, and Calvin Klein.