Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele !

Fashion Editor Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele  ‘set the gold standard for blinged-out chic. Now her “rich bitch” styling is connecting with a new generation...
from Style.com photos From Interview magazine

*Hint: Pronounce this all with a serious french accent!

•    ” Me, I love real. You know what I mean? I love real. I do always my salade. I mix things with real. I love the street. I am always thinking about the woman in the street. I love to do pictures crazy, too, but I always think about the woman I want to be. Lady, sexy. Pas déguisée-je déteste ça.  I love a woman that men could follow in the street. Or they come in a restaurant and say, “Look at that girl.” This is what I like.”

•    DS: What was Vogue like when you started working there in 1985?
CCDD:” It was extremely boring. Very, very, very boring. Afternoons in [then editor in chief] Grace Mirabella’s office to try every, every, every look on the girl. They were calling this “run-through,” and they were doing Polaroids. I mean, it was the most boring thing. And discussing…For me, fashion is not brainstorming, you know what I mean? Everything is instinctive. You like or don’t like.”

•    DS: And then you created that iconic cover for Anna Wintour’s first issue as editor.
CCDD: “Yeah, I was working with Peter [Lindbergh] in Paris during the couture, with the great Michaela [Bercu], and suddenly I said, “I am going to put my jeans on with this cross [sweater].” And I don’t remember if it was her jeans or my jeans. I don’t remember this. ”
•    “And of course I make the cover. It was a great cover. But you know, this is exactly how I was at this time. I was wearing my jeans with all my Chanel jackets in every color. And all the bags, everything was assorties de ballerines. My room in the Crillon was like every color. Everything pink, everything turquoise, everything yellow, everything orange. All the Chanel jackets, all the bandanas that they were doing at Chanel, everything was like perfect.”

•    DS: Talking of work, what do you think of the clothes this season?
•    CCDD:” I think it’s a lot of good stuff, and you know, I hate to tell I love this one, I hate this one. No, I always find clothes everywhere. Always. I don’t work with trends. I never, never follow trends, so I do my own thing in my head that comes suddenly, and I find the clothes with my idea of what is appropriate for the story. But I never follow. For example, everybody is going to do color, you know, red and pink, black and white, ruffles…you know, trends. They are all going to do this. Me, I hate to do this, I hate trends. I always, you know, I do ma salade.”

•    CCDD: ” I think a lot of people don’t know how to judge anymore. You see awful bags in collections and the houses send it to the actresses, you know, ten actresses, so they wear it and people want to follow and have the same bag, even if the bag is the most awful thing in the world.
•    You know all those handful of actresses. I mean it’s just monstrueux. C’est monstrueux. It’s terrible. When I see these pauvre Birkin bags worn by all of these people now, c’est terrible. Because they don’t know how to wear it. Suddenly it’s becoming vulgaire, you know? And I love vulgarity. Sometimes I prefer vulgarity to bon chic bon genre. But it’s a certain vulgarity.”

•    DS: It has to be the right vulgarity.
•    CCDD:” Yes! I love! I always say I prefer Saint-Tropez to Île de Ré. Île de Ré is caviar, French, you know, very striped T-shirt, bicycle, the market, we talk, da, da, da. I prefer Saint-Tropez. I prefer the rich bitch. I love the rich bitch. I always try to make my girl look like a rich bitch.”

Check out Carlyne here in the fabulous trailer for the Documentary of the book Vogue: the Editor’s Eye.