Carine Roitfeld in the Convenience of Her Own Property , Speaking About Things

Rarely does Carine Roitfeld invite journalists into her residence, a fifth- floor apartment overlooking the pristine lawn at Invalides, but she did just that before this week. Along with a handful of other reporters, the Lower sat down with the CR Style E book editor-in- main in her airy living space. Team sigh. Framed photographs (as properly as a mildew of her granddaughter's footprint, the initial existing from Romy to her "babushka") line the mantels or are propped up on the parquet ground a balcony delivers a panorama all the way to Sacré Coeur &mdash "the view's greater than paintings on my partitions," she states. Though we have been there to chat about her M.A.C. collaboration, we received a little bit off matter : She ended up telling us about the inner -mouth massages she gets at Joëlle Ciocco in Paris (to reduce jaw stress and make her start looking relaxed ), how a lot she loves Salma Hayek's outlined eyebrows, and doing ballet in purcha se to hold very good posture. What follows are the ideal snippets from our dialogue.