Emmanuelle Alt photographs © 2011 Condé Nast, yvanrodic, saywho.fr, fashionologie.com, lexpress.fr, self service magazine, theepitomeofquiet.tumblr.com, terrysdiary.com, and Getty Images.

Emmanuelle Alt selected Arizona Muse for the cover of the November issue of Vogue Paris as photographed by Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. The stellar cast of models inside includes Kate Winslet, Lara Stone, Sasha Pivovarova, Natasha Poly, Isabeli Fontana, Malgosia Bela, Karolina Kurkova, Eniko Mihalik, Magdalena Frackowiak, Barbara Palvin, Raquel Zimmermann, Hanaa Ben Abdesslem, and Alessandra Ambrosio. The cover headline promises a special look at beauty focusing on the makeup, the surgery, and the art of the aesthetic revolution, I look forward to reading more.

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

In this melodious editorial for the November issue of Vogue Paris, Emmanuelle Alt hits just the right note. Clearly a tribute to Nirvana in tune with the revival of grunge fashion, "Never Mind" takes a daring pastel approach to the casual look, featuring Natasha Poly and Sasha Pivovarova in the striped sweaters made de rigueur in the 1990s by Kurt Cobain. Mario Sorrenti photographed the spreads. Oh yes, be sure to note that this year marks the 20th anniversary of the seminal recording and a commemorative Super Deluxe Box Set has been released. Oh well, whatever, nevermind.

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

Terry Richardson photographed Emmanuelle Alt posed in front of Madison Square Garden prior to the Duran Duran concert, the perfect backdrop for her rock chic style. I really love the contrasts at work in this shot.

Emmanuelle Alt photograph © 2011 Terry Richardson. All Rights Reserved.

I have translated from French to English Emmanuelle Alt's editorial for the October issue of Vogue Paris in which she outlines her vision for fall and winter fashion trends. Hot treats include the new jewelry line by Kate Moss and the publication of Pretty Much Everything by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, an anthology in two volumes that collects their collaborative photography over the past twenty years.

La mode pulse, c'est la saison. Figure de proue des tendances automne-hiver, le glamour fait fi de la météo et s'affiche sans complexe. Noir et or, l'alliance fétiche de Versace donne le tempo. C'est le retour de la sexy attitude, dopée aux robes seconde peau, aux imprimés hurlants, aux galons précieux, au cuir qui fuselle. Les codes de la maison milanaise habillent de leur aura tonique une femme maîtresse de ses envies. Des plus intimes aux plus spectaculaires : tandis que Kate Moss dévoile en exclusivité sa ligne de bijoux — étoile, ancre, croissant de lune... — dessinés pour Fred, c'est sourire aux lèvres que l'héroïne d'une story haute joaillerie fait flamber la place Vendôme à coups de saphirs, d'émeraudes et de diamants géants. Une question de caractère, mise en images par Inez & Vinoodh, tandem vedette de la photo et collaborateurs ultra-précieux de Vogue, dont un livre-monument couronne aujourd'hui le talent. Au calendrier du succès, les garçons sont aussi au rendez-vous : pour l'acteur Jean Dujardin et le créateur Christopher Bailey, la saison est radieuse. De quoi rafler une place en guest-stars dans ce numéro...

The pulse of fashion, it is the season. The figurehead of fall and winter trends, glamour ignores the weather and is displayed without complex. Black and gold, the fetish alliance of Versace sets the tempo. It is the return of the sexy attitude, doped with second-skin dresses, with screaming prints, with precious lace, with leather like fusel. The dress codes of the house of Milan are a tonic for the most desirable women. From the most intimate to the most spectacular: while Kate Moss unveils her exclusive line of jewelry — star, anchor, crescent moon... — Designed for Fred, this brings a smile to the lips of the heroine of a fine jewelry story that raised the Place Vendome with blows of giant sapphires, emeralds and diamonds. A question of character, set in images by Inez & Vinoodh, featuring the tandem of photography and ultra-valuable Vogue collaborators, including a book-monument crowning today's talent. The timing of success, the boys are also scheduled: for the actor Jean Dujardin and the designer Christopher Bailey, the season is radiant. What a roundup of guest stars in this issue...

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

Emmanuelle Alt photograph courtesy of Fashion Spot. Halloween trickery by Kellina de Boer.

Feuilletez le magazine en avant-première

"2011, année phare de la beauté", écrit Emmanuelle Alt, rédactrice en chef de Vogue Paris dans l'édito du numéro de novembre 2011. Teint glowy, rose aux joues, régénération cellulaire, manucure parfaite... un numéro qui décrypte les nouveaux codes de la beauté en 10 tendances soins et make-up pour tendre vers un naturel quasi parfait. En couverture, on retrouve le top du moment Arizona Muse, jolie pin-up rétro qui pose simplement vêtue d'un nœud papillon de smoking Yves Saint Laurent sous l'œil d'Inez & Vinoodh. Cette jeune américaine de 21 ans, que l'on a découverte au printemps-été 2011 en égérie Yves Saint Laurent, incarne ce nouvel idéal de beauté aux côté des plus belles ambassadrices de Vogue comme Natasha Poly, Isabeli Fontana, Sasha Pivovarova, Karolina Kurkova, mais aussi Kate Winslet, qui pose en total look Miu Miu, ou la romancière Joan Didion.

Côté mode, on retrouve l'essentiel des collections haute couture automne-hiver 2011-2012 dans un série électrique où Raquel Zimmermann semble danser au rythme de David Bowie. La maille est aussi à l'honneur dans ce numéro de novembre, comme un cocon où se nicher à l'approche de l'hiver. Le moment idéal; pour lire les confessions de Donatella Versace, à l'occasion du lancement de la collection Versace pour H&M et de découvrir en exclusivité les noms des trois nouveaux vernis stars de la maison Chanel pour le printemps-été 2012.

Vogue Paris no. 922 novembre 2011, en kiosque le 26 octobre.

Translation from French to English:

Browse the magazine preview

"2011 is a banner year for beauty," writes Emmanuelle Alt, editor of Vogue Paris in her editorial in the November issue of 2011. Glowy complexion, pink cheeks, cell regeneration, perfect manicure... an issue that decrypts the new codes of beauty and 10 trends in care and makeup with a tendency towards a natural look that is almost perfect. On the cover, we find up-and-comer Arizona Muse, a pretty retro pin-up that poses wearing only a bow tie with her Yves Saint Laurent smoking under the eye of Inez & Vinoodh. This young American, 21 years old, who was discovered in spring-summer 2011 and an Yves Saint Laurent muse, embodies this new ideal of beauty beside the best beauty ambassadors of Vogue like Natasha Poly, Isabeli Fontana, Sasha Pivovarova, Karolina Kurkova, but also Kate Winslet, who poses in a total look by Miu Miu, or the novelist Joan Didion.

On the fashion side, we discover the essentials of the haute couture collections of autumn-winter 2011-2012 in a powerful series where Raquel Zimmermann seems to dance to David Bowie. The mesh is also featured in the November issue, like a cocoon in which to nest at the approach of winter. The ideal time; to read the confessions of Donatella Versace at the launch of the Versace collection for H&M and to discover in exclusivity the names of the three stars of the new campaign for the house of Chanel for spring-summer 2012.

Vogue Paris no. 922 November 2011, on newsstands 26 October.

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

Vogue editors from around the world gathered in Tokyo to show their support during Fashion Night Out. One of Emmanuelle Alt's biggest fans in Tokyo, Yuka Ryou, had the chance to meet her idol and kindly agreed to share her experience with us. Below is her personal account and her photographs, though like me she is shy and hid her face. Thank you very much, Yuka, for sharing your passion for Emmanuelle!

My Minute With Emmanuelle Alt
By Yuka Ryou

Hello, every Emmanuelle Alt fans looking at this site. My name is Yuka. I'm huge Emmanuelle fan live in Tokyo. Kellina gave a chance writing my miracle experience to me. If you're interested in this story, I'm so happy.

Last Saturday was a special day for all of Japanese fashion lovers. The VOGUE FNO in Tokyo was held. USA, Italy, UK, Paris, India, Turkey... and editor-in-chief of VOGUE all over the world came to Tokyo for cheering Japanese people. Because we were hurt by the terrible earthquake and Tsunami.

I deeply wanted to meet to Emmanuelle. It was my big dream for long long time. Then, my dreams finally came true!!!!!

I met Emmanuelle in YSL shop. She visited to the shop with editor-in-chief of VOGUE Turkey. Emmanuelle was so beautiful. She is tall, and has perfect style.

She wore a…

★ Balmain black jacket.

★ Black skinny pants.

★ Black high heels.

★ Hermes medor bracelet on left hand.

★ Cartier tank watch on right hand.

It’s just Emmanuelle style!!

And I had a little conversation with her. I’ll show you.

Yuka (Y) : Bon jour

Emmanuelle (E) : Bon jour!

Y : I’m your huge fan!

E : Oh! Thank you.

Y : Your Balmain style is so cool and perfect!

E : Thank you.

Y : Thank you for coming to Japan.

E : I love Japan. I’m glad to come to Tokyo.

Y : I can’t believe that I’m talking with you.

E : (She smiled)

<We took a picture!>

Y : I’m your huge fan. (OMG! I said same thing twice!)

E : Thank you so much.

<Shaking hands!>

Y : Merci beaucoup.

E : Merci. A bientot!

That’s all. I know it’s too short conversation. But I had precious 1 minute! I’m excited even now!!! 

The most impressive thing was she fix her eyes on my eyes. I never forget her beautiful eyes and her beautiful soft voice. 

I hope someday I can meet to her again in Paris. It’s my next dream!!! 

Thank you for reading my broken English. And Kellina, Thank you for wonderful opportunity!

Emmanuelle Alt photographs © 2011 Yuka Ryou. All Rights Reserved.

Here is a bit more about Emmanuelle Alt and Vogue Fashion Night Out in Tokyo, special thanks to Iñaki Carvajal of Know Wear for the excellent photograph above which was sent to him by Roger Vivier, and to our editor-at-large Bernie Rothschild for collecting most of the shots of Emmanuelle in the gallery. I find the commemorative image of the occasion so interesting, imagine the logistics... Also visit Vivian at Lost In Translation for more coverage of the event.

Vogue editors (left to right): Yolanda Sacristan, Spain (seated), Kirstie Clements, Australia (middle), Anaita Adajania, India (back), Christiane Arp, Germany (seated), Angelica Cheung, China (standing), Franca Sozzani, Italy (seated), Mitsuko Watanabe, Japan (standing), Anna Wintour, America (seated), Emmanuelle Alt, France (seated), Alexandra Shulman, Britain (seated), Victoria Davydova, Russia (standing), Anna Harvey, Brazil and Greece (seated), Seda Domanic, Turkey (seated), Myung Hee Lee, Korea (seated), Rosalie Huang, Taiwan (standing), Eva Hughes, Mexico and Latin America (standing), Paula Mateus, Portugal (seated). Photograph © 2011 Condé Nast. All Rights Reserved.

Emmanuelle Alt photographs © 2011 Roger Vivier, Condé Nast, and courtesy of tumblr.com, magazine.motilo.com, and wwd.com. All Rights Reserved.

Emmanuelle Alt photograph courtesy of lainformacion.com

I have translated from French to English Emmanuelle Alt's editorial for the November issue of Vogue Paris which focuses on the science of beauty while taking time to chat with Kate Winslet and Joan Didion.

2011, année phare pour la beauté. Après une décennie de boulimie transformiste, la science s'allie à une certaine sagesse. La beauté tend vers un nouvel idéal, proche comme jamais du naturel parfait. Ce numéro détaille l'arsenal des techniques d'avant-garde dont on dispose désormais pour l'atteindre. Make-up du futur pour capter la lumière. Dopage cutané à l'aide de nouveaux carburants cosmétiques pour un look «fresh», indemne de stress. Micro-chirugie sélective prônée par les practiciens stars : on traque les rides de fatigue, on garde celles du charme, avec pour résultat un visage rayonnant qui préserve son expressivité — le nôtre, en mieux. Notre enquête sur ces nouveaux codes fait le tour du monde.

Hasard ou conjonction heureuse? La beauté, longtemps disqualifiée dans l'art, refait surface. Du Palazzo Grassi au Centre Pompidou du Metz, de la Fiac à Miami Basel, on assiste au retour de la séduction des formes et des matériaux, comme en témoigne Philippe Dagen, critique et essayiste. Signe des temps, la mode, bien sûr, s'allie à la tendance. Derrière l'objectif d'Inez & Vinoodh, la haute couture danse. Dans la rue, le blanc embellit et la maille seconde peau dynamise. Pour incarner la grâce, nous avons choisi deux visages. L'auteur américaine culte Joan Didion, dont l'adaptation française de L'Année de la pensée magique est donnée ce mois ci à Paris; la star oscarisée Kate Winslet, confondante de talent dans Contagion, de Steven Soderbergh, autant que dans dernier Polanski. Ou comment réussir en beauté.

2011, a banner year for beauty. After a decade of bulimic transformation, science has been combined with a certain wisdom. Beauty tends toward a new ideal, close to natural but never perfect. This issue details the arsenal of cutting-edge techniques that are available now to achieve it. Make-up of the future to capture the light. Doping skin using new cosmetic fuels for a "fresh" look, free of stress. Selective micro-surgery advocated by the star practitioners: it tracks the wrinkles of fatigue, it guards those of charm, resulting in a radiant face that preserves its expressiveness — ours, and better. Our investigation of these new codes went around the world.

Chance or happy combination? Beauty, long discredited in art, has resurfaced. From Palazzo Grassi to the Centre Pompidou Metz, from the FIAC to Art Basel Miami, we are seeing the return of the seduction of forms and materials, as evidenced by Philippe Dagen, critic and essayist. Sign of the times, fashion, of course, has joined forces with the trend. Behind the lens of Inez & Vinoodh, the high fashion dance. In the street, the embellished white and the mesh second skin energizes. To embody the grace, we chose two faces. The cult American writer Joan Didion, whose French adaptation of The Year of Magical Thinking is given this month in Paris; the Oscar-winning star Kate Winslet, astounding talent in Contagion, by Steven Soderbergh, as well as in the last Polanski. Or how to succeed in beauty.

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

Emmanuelle Alt pays tribute to David Bowie and Ziggy Stardust with Kate Moss as her pick for the December 2011/January 2012 cover of Vogue Paris. Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott photographed the image. This is an interesting choice as it marks the second time Moss acts as a guest editor for Vogue Paris, her first appearance was six years ago for the December 2005/January 2006 issue. Unless Emmanuelle has decided to end the guest editor tradition, which would be a travesty. What is it about Kate Moss that gives one the urge to style her like David Bowie? Note the cover of Vogue UK below, shot in May 2003 by Nick Knight. The December 2011/January 2012 issue of Vogue Paris will be available on newsstands beginning 5 December.

Vogue Paris cover image © 2011 Condé Nast. Vogue UK cover image © 2003 Condé Nast. All Rights Reserved. 

Emmanuelle Alt chose to highlight the latest collection by Alexander McQueen for the cover of Vogue Paris Collections Printemps-Été 2012. This special edition guide to the season's collections references the shows in Paris, New York, London, and Milan, serving as a comprehensive resource for faithful followers of fashion. Inside you will find on display the entire offering of clothing and accessories for the Spring/Summer 2012 season by hundreds of designers worldwide. Be sure to pick up your personal copy of this limited edition collectors' item.

Vogue Paris Collections Spring/Summer 2012 cover image © 2011 Condé Nast. All Rights Reserved.

View the Chanel Paris-Bombay pre-autumn/winter 2012-13 collection

Emmanuelle Alt photograph © 2011 Getty Images. All Rights Reserved.

Throughout the month of December, Emmanuelle Alt is treating readers to a musical advent calendar by revealing the video for one of her favorite songs each day on the Vogue Paris site. In tandem with her special music issue for December/January, perhaps she means this to take the place of the vanquished Vogue Paris calendar we had all grown to love. In any event, Emmanuelle is clearly stuck in the Seventies and Eighties... in America! Très bizarre... Visit Vogue Paris for Emmanuelle's daily update or listen to the convenient playlist I assembled, I will update it again once all of her songs are known. Note that I had to put it in chronological order to check my math — most of Emmanuelle's favorite songs were released when she was between the ages of 11 and 19.

Bee Gees - More Than a Woman (1978)
John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John - You're the One that I Want (Grease soundtrack) (1978)
Blondie - Heart of Glass (1979)
Michael Jackson - Don't Stop Til You Get Enough (1979)
Blondie - Rapture (1981)
Shalamar - A Night To Remember (1982)
Prince and the Revolution - 1999 (1982)
David Bowie - Let's Dance (1983)
Michael Sembello - Maniac (Flashdance soundtrack) (1983)
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (1983)
Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (1984)
George Michael - Freedom (1984)
Bryan Ferry - Slave to Love (1985)
Diana Ross - Chain Reaction (1985)
RUN-DMC - Walk this Way (1986)
Madonna - Open Your Heart (1986)
Robert Palmer - Addicted to Love (1986)
Chris Isaak - Wicked Game (Wild at Heart soundtrack) (1989)
Neneh Cherry - I've Got You Under My Skin (1990)
Vanessa Paradis - Be My Baby (1992)
Beyoncé - Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) (2008)

Emmanuelle Alt photograph © 2011 Wayne Tippets. All Rights Reserved.

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!

Lori Ferme

IWTB Interview: Isabelle Oziol De Pignol

Emmanuelle Alt Favorites:
Mixte
David Sims

Martina Sulkova

Emmanuelle Alt Favorites:
Prada Infusion De Fleur D'Oranger

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

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.

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 © 20121 Condé Nast.

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.

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....

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