Why did carine roitfeld resign

Thank you to everyone who read our work over the years. The archives will remain available here; for new stories, head over to Vox. Last Friday morning, in a surprise move, decade-strong editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris , Carine Roitfeld , announced she would be leaving the magazine at the end of January. According to some very well-placed Racked sources, the "resignation" was a surprise not only to the fashion industry and the general public, but also to Roitfeld's staff.

The reason no one knew? Because, according to our sources, Roitfeld did not resign— she was fired. It appears that the Conde Nast -Carine Roitfeld fall-out was a long time coming. Our sources tell us the magazine's parent company was unhappy with all the bad press surrounding Roitfeld's alleged pay-for-play scandals—this year, alone—demanding huge sums of money for extracurricular consulting gigs and the enormous, public embarrassment of being banned from Balenciaga last season for abusing her position at Vogue.

In the latter case, Roitfeld allegedly borrowed Balenciaga preview pieces and sent them to her client, Max Mara , to copy—"It wasn't the first time," one source tells us.

There are, allegedly, plenty of questions about Roitfeld's impartiality as an editor. She also denied that she has been doing paid consulting work for luxury brands during her tenure at French Vogue , but said now that she can pick up those sorts of freelance gigs, she will if she feels like it. Others wondered if it was partly her disinterest in the Internet. That it was like a window into the cool lunch table in the high-school cafeteria not one that people eat at, that is?

And we could all dream about it but also feel freaked out enough not to feel that bad about not being a part of it? God, we will miss her.

Already a subscriber? Log in or link your magazine subscription. 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 , women than millions of women across America.

Wintour lavished praise on Roitfield today, saying she had "drawn global attention to her own inimitable style". A former model, Roitfeld started her writing career at Elle, and worked her way up the ranks before she teamed up with Ford at Gucci and then Yves Saint Laurent.

After only a year at YSL, she was asked to edit Vogue, further cementing her influence in the international fashion industry.