In de Telegraph vertelt ze over haar bestaan als chiqueste oma ter wereld, over haar vertrek bij de Franse Vogue, haar controversiele editorials en, jaja, over het plassen op parkeerplaatsen.
Maar we beginnen met wat ze zei over mensen die haar 'porno-chic- noemen: "A lot of poeple say I am the queen of porno-chic. 'Chic' is good, but 'porno' is not. I am very happy you use the word 'erotic' and not 'pornographic'. I never treat a woman as an object, and even when we use bondace (Karen Elson, for example, was pictured in the magazine in 2007 tied up with a curtain cord), I don't think the woman seems to suffer; she is never just an object. She is tough, my woman. I always think model and woman is more important than the clothes. Most of the time when I do shoots I think the girl is an actress more than a model."
Ook praatte ze over haar relatie met Karl Lagerfeld, met wie ze een boek schreef over Chanels iconische little black jacket: "Lagerfeld always calls me Mme Roitfeld, never Carine. It's funny, he's like a rock star now. You go on the streetw ith him, it's like being with J-Lo."
En natuurlijk ging het ook over het verlaten van de Franse Vogue: "Now it's all about money, results and big business. Ten years is a long time - and especially 10 years in a gilded cage. They were wonderful years, but sooner of later birds want their freedom again. It's true, you are not free to work with Karl Lagerfeld and the advertising. You are not free to help a designer. So now I can open all the perspective in front of me. I change job so I have a lot of possibility."
Ook wilde Carine wat kwijt over de business die enorm veranderd is en wat haar nieuwe magazine CR Fashion Book anders dan de andere tijdschriften maakt: "When I started 30 years ago at French Elle, we never do the shoot thinking if Jean Paul Gaultier was advertising or not. We were totally free. But nog I understand it is a business and you have to pay attention to the peple who put money in your magazine. But there has to be a limit or otherwise you are not a journalist anymore. But this magazine is going to be totally different than what I was doing before, with a new dream team."
En dan, last but not least, het plassen op parkeerplaatsen: "When I was going in nightclubs there were cameras in the toilets looking to see if you were taking drugs, so I sais, 'OK, I will never go to pee in the toilet in a nightclub'. I will always prefer to go to pee behind a car. We took a picture like this. It was reality for me. It is important to have a sense of humour and always with a certain chic. Even if the girl is peeing behind a car, she is doint it with a chic attitude."
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