Carine Roitfeld Biography and Photos

Carine Roitfeld (born in Paris, France on 19 September 1954) is the Editor-in-Chief of the French edition of Vogue, a position she has held since 2001.

Her father, Jacques Roitfeld, who died in 1999, was a Russian film producer who worked in Berlin before he moved to Paris and met her mother. Roitfeld describes her mother as a "very classic Frenchwoman." She describes her father as her "idol," and says that "he was always away, filming, at Cannes." She describes her upbringing in the 16th arrondissment of Paris, France was "very Bourgeois. I'm not saying we were in diamonds, but very, very comfortable."

Roitfeld and her partner Christian Restoin have been together for thirty years.Restoin was the creator the Equipment clothing line, which he closed in 2001 after Roitfeld accepted the Vogue editorship. Roitfeld and Restoin have two children:

Julia Restoin Roitfeld (born in Paris on 12 November 1981)
Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld (born in Paris in December 1980)

Julia graduated from Parsons School of Design in New York City in May 2006 and became the face of Tom Ford's fragrance Black Orchid in November 2006.

Vladimir graduated from the University of Southern California Film School in 2007.