French Woman Carine Roitfeld's Indy Spirit

New York magazine calls her the 50-something Anti Anna (Wintour). I adore her originality, her edgy, sexy French fashion style and her elitist attitude.  In approaching fashion layouts, Roitfeld begins with the story: “Perhaps this girl has married young and taken a lover. Perhaps she married young, has taken three lovers, and is about to go to Brazil. Perhaps she lives in London and is bored to death with mad cow disease and wants desperately to eat a great, juicy piece of steak.”

French women are known for displaying far more originality in style than we American women. The emphasis isn’t on fixing flaws but on maximizing their magnificent eccentricities and individualism.  In fact, “flaws” give one character … a sense that there’s only one you.

In America business it devoted to telling women we’re not good enough. We are washed up at 25, versus French women at 35-45, as the time of their peak beauty. Why invest in ourselves when the future is nothing but more flaws? It’s not fun, frankly.  Read on at New York Magazine: The Anti-Anna