Carine Roitfeld turns designer

Paris
Former French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld has put down her pen and decided to try her hand at designing. The famous fashion journalist will participate in a project for Mercedes-Benz.

For her contribution she came up with a futuristic black dress trailed by a huge full length balloon shaped cape. It will be worn by model Sui He in a new international Spring/Summer 2014 campaign for the car company. As well she commissioned a pair of custom shoes by Italian shoemaker Gianvito Rossii with a Mercedes-Benz logo. The project was art directed by Stephen Gan.

Roitfeld was quoted as saying... "I think this car is very sober, chic and very expensive looking, so I was aiming to design something exactly the same for Sui He ... So, this dress has a perfect knee-length, it's a perfect sweater, it's black - something you can keep forever, but with a bit of a sensual look, because it very closely follows her whole body. It's very sculptural in a simple way - exactly like the car."


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