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From top: With Azzedine Alaïa; with Roger Vivier designer Bruno Frisoni; Roitfeld front row at the Chanel couture show.
As in any profession, stylists work in all sorts of ways. Some are cerebral, and you can easily spot the research and references in their work. Roitfeld, on the other hand, is more instinctive and personal; one could argue that she is her own best muse. “When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, ‘Will you wear it?’” Roitfeld remembered. “I’d say, ‘Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton’—that sort of thing. I don’t create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.”
