Saturday, December 18, 2010

Maria: Carine Roitfeld is leaving Vogue Paris to usurp Anna Wintour as editor of Vogue US?

Lately it's  been clear that Anna's influence over fashion industry  reached  the  point of absurdity. More and more people started questioning her  level of creativity and reliability. The commercial aspect of Vogue Us is so obvious that it's almost sad. Well.. we're about to find out whether  it's going to change or not.  
A few days ago it's been announced that  Carine Roitfeld is leaving Vogue Paris for good. The official reason is that Carine quits the magazine to concentrate on her "personal projects". However English News Parer "The Guardian" has published a very interesting article  where they discuss the possible reasons of Carine quitting  Vogue Paris.
As you can guess from the title of this post one of the possible reasons is that Carine might take over Vogue Us. 
Here is a quotation from the article : 
"Despite this claim to have nothing planned, many still believe she will usurp Anna Wintour as editor of US Vogue. These rumours have circulated for years, despite Roitfeld always denying wanting Wintour's job. Asked about it in an interview with the Guardian last year, she said: "No! How you say, there is no rumour without fire? No smoke? Well, in this situation, there was no fire, because I was never, ever approached to go to America. And to be honest, if they approached me, I think it's really not me. I'm good at what I do here and I'm not sure if you put me in that world I would be as good. I think it's much easier to talk to 100,000 women than millions of women across America." "
You can also read the entire article if you're interested :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/dec/17/carine-roitfeld-resigns-paris-vogue?intcmp=239


I dont know how true these gossips are but what i do know is that   Anna has always been in a state of "Cold War" with all the  other  head editors of Vogue. Which is not surprising since Anna has a hard time communicating with pretty much everyone. But, as far as i'm concerned Anna's attitude has never been an issue to the headquarters of Conde Nast.  Also  I'm not sure that Carine needs and wants to add Vogue US to her job list.
But my opinion doesnt really matter because i'm not a big fan of  Vogue Us and you're not going to get anything objective from me.
So,  tell me, what do you guys think? Do you want Carine to take over Vogue US? Do you think that Anna is what American reader likes and needs? 
P.S ..Also in the article they say that : Condé Nast said her replacement would be announced within the next few weeks. Current frontrunners include Emmanuelle Alt, Paris Vogue's fashion director, and Aliona Doletskaya, the recently resigned editor-in-chief of Russian Vogue. "
Who do you think should be a replacement  for Carine Roitfeld? Maybe, you know someone else who's going to be great for this job? Bloggers were saying that Anna Dello Russo, fashion editor of Vogue Japan, is the best candidate. 
Carine Roitfeld and Anna Wintour
Candidate 1: Emmanuelle Alt

Candidate 2 : Aliona Doletskaya

Candidate 3 : Anna Dello Russo 

GUYS! I need your thoughts on the situation and these lovely ladies :)




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