RISKY WOMAN

"People sometimes think I’m very cold, but I’m not.

I’m a very shy person. When people know me, I’m not cold; I’m quite a nice person.

It’s difficult as the editor of a magazine to be totally yourself because you’re a bit frightened"

Would you be open to editing another magazine?

Why not? I’m open to many opportunities. There are not so many ways to show fashion…To show fashion you need a magazine most of the time. Each time we were doing a magazine, it was like giving a dinner…You know this thing called Le Festin de Babette?

She spent all her money just to make one dinner. It’s a bit like when you want to make a special issue. You give everything you have, your charm, your money, your relationships, to make something fantastic. You have to be very generous.

The photographers you worked with at the magazine—David Sims, Mario Sorrenti, Terry Richardson—they are the establishment now. Do you see a new generation of photographers breaking through?

There are some coming through, but when you have a magazine and you have the best ones, it’s difficult to put someone new between them. They want to be all at the same level.

But I think now, we need new stylists, we need new photographers, and I’m starting to check and see some very good ones.

And if I’m doing something new, I would love to use a new generation, because I think it’s good when people are very hungry…

Personally, I think I had more creativity and talent 20 years ago when we had no money to do a story, [and we had] to do it in two hours after a money job when we got to keep the studio…I think everything is too established now. I think it’s good to break the rules. It’s like the models. It’s easy to have the five tops. I love risk…Now I found a new girl called Saskia. She has short hair, no one knows her, and this is going to be my last cover.

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