so, no pussy there....

photographed by kacper kasprzyk & styled by carine roitfeld for harper's bazaar.

carine roitfeld answered questions last night at a q&a session.  her first work as global fashion director for bazaar's international editions will appear next month in a 16 page spread titled "carine on the collections." (images above are previews)

a few highlights from the sesssion: 

on her famous gucci campaign with the label's logo shaved into the model's pubic hair:

"when we were doing the gucci campaign there were always a number of pictures to do and at the end i said to mario (testino), 'mario, i don't think we did the iconic picture, we have to push'....i don't know at the time i was very impressed maybe with the pussy shaving or something like that. so i thought why don't we do the 'g' there? they said, 'no, it's not possible.' but i said, 'let's try.' so they took a piece of paper with a 'g' and shaved the girl and finally it became, i think, an iconic picture.

on the difference between french and american sensibilities:

"in france we don't have so many celebrities like you have here. so we push a lot of models and when you're working with models it's easy to push fashion. you can do what you want. you don't have so many publicists and people between you and the star...so maybe i'm french. i was raised with guy bourdin. for me it's very normal. even if a girl was totally naked she was never vulgar. there was a sense of chic. it wasn't porno chic. when you go to america you have to think a bit different. so, no pussy there.

on leaving vogue paris and reinventing herself:

"i was in a golden cage and now i go back to freedom. you become the real person you are. i have the real color of my hair now, i'm the real carine - the one i was 15 years before."