Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld (born 18 December, 1984) is a French-American businessman and President of CR Fashion Book Ltd., the media company that publishes the namesake biannual style magazine founded by his mother, Carine Roitfeld. He leads business strategy, business development, partnerships, and extensions of the CR Fashion Book brand across publishing, licensing, and consulting, including an international partnership with Hearst Communications Inc. Under his leadership, CRFB has revitalized its companion men's publication, CR MEN, launched its first international edition, CR Fashion Book Japan, and produced special projects, including an annual calendar CR Women. Roitfeld is also President of CR Studio, a creative and production agency that he launched with clients ranging from Christian Dior and Chanel to Yeezy and Philipp Plein.

Early life

Roitfeld was born in Paris, France. He is the son of Christian Restoin and

Carine Roitfeld Carine Roitfeld (; born 19 September 1954) is a French fashion editor, former fashion model, and writer. She is the former editor-in-chief of ''Vogue Paris'', a position she held from 2001 to 2011. In 2012, she became founder and editor-in-chief ...

, French journalist, fashion stylist, and the former editor-in-chief of French Vogue. He has an older sister, Julia Restoin Roitfeld. Roitfeld's godfather is photographer

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Education

Roitfeld moved to New York City at age 17 to study at NYU before graduating from the University of Southern California School of International Relations and Cinematic Arts in 2007. Subsequently, he worked as an assistant producer for

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, before making the transition into the art world.

Career

Prior to CRFB, Restoin Roitfeld served as the founder and director of Feedback Ltd., a Manhattan-based private art dealership that staged exhibitions with artists such as Andy Warhol, Peter Lindbergh, Tom Wesselmann, and Richard Hambleton. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California, where he earned degrees in Business, International Relations, and Cinema & Television. Roitfeld was inspired by "pop-up" galleries, in which museum-style exhibitions have been installed in industrial spaces in New York,

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, Paris, and

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. He has worked on exhibitions with the

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, Sotheby's S2 Gallery and Phillips de Pury. In 2012 Roitfeld created a private art dealership headquartered in New York. At the 17th annual Cinema Against Aids

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gala in Cannes in 2010, Roitfeld collaborated with amfAr-supporter Giorgio Armani on contributing to the organization's auction tent, which included an exhibition of works by

Richard Hambleton Richard Art Hambleton (June 23, 1952 – October 29, 2017) was a Canadian artist known for his work as a street artist. He was a surviving member of a group that emerged from the New York City art scene during the booming art market of the 1980s ...

. Roitfeld and Andy Valmorbida curated the collection and donated two rare pieces to the event. Auctioneer Simon de Pury moderated the bidding and the lots brought a combined total of $920,000. Restoin Roitfiled is interviewed on screen in the 2017 documentary on Hambleton, '' Shadowman''.

References

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