I Want To Be An Alt

Kellina de Boer
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Paul Kolyer
MANAGING EDITOR

Heather Dunhill
FASHION EDITOR

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Kamila Brudzynska
Bernie Rothschild

Coups de cœur de Alt
Galerie de Alt
Armoire de Alt
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Vogue Paris

Vogue Hommes

Vogue Paris Collections

IWTB SHOP

IWTBAA Black Tee

IWTBAA White Mug

IWTBAA White Tee

I Want To Be A Roitfeld

I Want To Be A Battaglia

I Want To Be A Coppola

IWTB RECOMMENDS

Chloé: Attitudes
By Sarah Mower

 

Jane & Serge
By Andrew Birkin

 

Loulou de la Falaise
By Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni

 

Halston: Inventing American Fashion
By Lesley Frowick

 

Dries van Noten
By Pamela Golbin

 

A Denim Story
By Emily Current, Meritt Elliott, Hilary Walsh 

 

Veruschka: From Vera to Veruschka
By Johnny Moncada

 

Draw Blood for Proof
By Mario Sorrenti

 

Diana Vreeland Memos:
The Vogue Years

By Alexander Vreeland

jeudi
janv.262012

Vogue.fr X Emmanuelle Alt

Condé Nast issued a press release yesterday indicating that a brand new look for Vogue.fr as styled by Emmanuelle Alt will launch on 6 February. As Emmanuelle relates, "Vogue.fr is first and foremost Vogue, its style, spirit and view." Above you can see a screen capture of the new front page of the Vogue Paris site, sleek and chic, it strips away beautifully the busyness of the existing site. I can only hope the content will be as sharp....

Vogue.fr image © 2012 Condé Nast. All Rights Reserved.

mardi
janv.242012

Emmanuelle Alt In The Eighties

Industrie Magazine offers a flip-through of Issue 4 including this delightful Polaroid of Emmanuelle Alt in the 1980s as photographed by Davé at his restaurant of the same name on rue de Richelieu in Paris. The shot of Emmanuelle is part of a feature titled "Come Dine With Me" and she is pictured with photographer Steve Hiett. Special thanks to Wynn Dan for sending me this photo.

Emannuelle Alt photograph courtesy of industrie.nowmanifest.com. All Rights Reserved.

vendredi
janv.132012

Vogue Paris February 2012: Daria Werbowy

Emmanuelle Alt takes the Vogue Paris gang to Las Vegas for the February fashion issue which features Daria Werbowy on the cover in a glamorous Prada bathing suit as photographed by Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. Inside you will find an exclusive short story by Douglas Kennedy, an interview with Marc Jacobs, and 66 looks shot against the hedonistic backdrop of Las Vegas.

Vogue Paris cover image © 2012 Condé Nast. All Rights Reserved.

mercredi
janv.112012

Vogue Paris Translation: Editorial, December 2011/January 2012

Here is my translation from French to English of Emmanuelle Alt's editorial for the December/January issue of Vogue Paris in which she explains her decision to celebrate music in the issue rather than to follow the tradition of a guest editor that was established by Carine Roitfeld in recent years. I am not sure if she is leading off with a reference to the Beach Boys or Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch....

Bonne vibrations

Qu'elle parle d'amour, d'amitié, d'ici ou d'ailleurs, qu'elle évoque la nuit, la solitude, des gouffres ou des dérives, une chanson est une émotion. Si elle nous touche, c'est dans l'instant et sans doute pour toujours : ce fut mon cas avec les tempos électrisants de La Fièvre du samedi soir et de Grease, sortis à quelques mois d'écart. Les flirts d'été, les dance-floors trépidants, les rêves les yeux ouverts, les corps rapprochés : tout cela passe en remix sur la bande-son de nos tubes préférés. Pour ce numéro de Nöel exceptionnel, Vogue monte le son. Pas une guest-star, comme ces dernières années, mais une pléiade d'artistes qui donnent vie au sortilège de la musique. Compositeurs, producteurs, interprètes. Rockeurs, crooners, rappeurs, divas pop, soul, R'n'B. Légendes vivantes et jeunes pousses tendres. Idoles inoxydables et nouvelle vague chahutante. A Paris, Londres et New York, ils ont tous accepté notre invitation : de Charles Aznavour à Lou Reed, de Kanye West à Debbie Harry, de Ciara à Françoise Hardy, de Boy George à Etienne Daho. Plus d'une vingtaine de stars, toutes scènes confondues, orchestrent cette performance sensationnelle.

Good vibrations

It speaks of love, of friendship, here or elsewhere, it evokes the night, the loneliness, the abysses or the excesses, a song is an emotion. If it affects us, it is in the moment and probably forever: that was my case with the electrifying tempos of Saturday Night Fever and Grease, released a few months apart. The summer flirtations, the hectic dance floors, the dreams with eyes open, the bodies close together, this all goes into remixing the soundtrack of our favorite songs. For this special Christmas issue, Vogue turns up the sound. Not a guest star, as in recent years, but a host of artists who give life to the spell of music. Composers, producers, performers. Rockers, crooners, rappers, divas of pop, soul, R'n'B. Living legends and tender shoots. Stainless idols and new wave hecklers. In Paris, London and New York, they all accepted our invitation: from Charles Aznavour to Lou Reed, from Kanye West to Debbie Harry, from Ciara to Françoise Hardy, from Boy George to Etienne Daho. More than twenty stars, all stages combined, orchestrate this sensational performance.

Vogue Paris editorial image © 2011 Condé Nast. All Rights Reserved.

dimanche
janv.082012

I Want To Be An Alt: 2011 In Review

As we look forward to all that 2012 holds, I would like to take a look backwards at all the wonderful contributions from the I Want To Be An Alt editorial team. Special thanks to each of your for your amazing work. Thanks also to you, darling reader, for your visits and your comments, they mean the world to us. I can't wait to see what Emmanuelle Alt and her Vogue Paris team have planned for us in the coming year.

Kate Ringo Suzuki

Emmanuelle Alt’s True Style
Balmain Spring/Summer 2011 Lookbook
Petit Salon Des Jeunes Créateurs

Emmanuelle Alt Favorites:
Wolford Stockings
Isbael Marant

Bernie Rothschild

Emmanuelle Alt: Vanity Fair's Best Dressed List 2011?
Emmanuelle Alt On Vogue Paris August 2011
Happy Birthday, Diana Vreeland!

Martina Sulkova

Emmanuelle Alt Favorites:
Prada Infusion De Fleur D'Oranger

Photographs © 2012 Kate Ringo Suzuki, Bernie Rothschild, and Martina Sulkova. All Rights Reserved.

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