As a four-year-old, Julia Restoin Roitfeld would sit on her mother's lap Carine Roitfeld Exhibition of fashion in Paris. At 10, she was photographed by Mario Testino for Vogue Bambini. In his 20s, became an art director, Muse, model and Parisian girl who, before moving to New York. The designer Tom Ford described it as "exactly what beauty is to me", and when she gave birth last year, which gave her a pair of heels Black Suede kitten in child size for newborn daughter.
As the Scion of a dynasty of Paris fashion – his mother was editor-in-Chief of Vogue France and his father created the French brand equipment – Restoin Roitfeld, 32, might seem a little too haute couture offering style advice with feet on the ground for new mothers. But his new blog, Romy & bunnies-part diary, part family scrapbook, heavily equipped with stuffed bunnies and flashbacks to the pregnant mother chic degli anni ' 80 – Paris is fast picking up a sequel. Inspired by his motto, "you can have a job and a child style and a body", is an eclectic mix of advice and tips from models, fashion insiders and working parents. There is also advice on changing bags for men (his partner is the Croatian-born Swedish model Robert Konjic).
Restoin Roitfeld, who was still modelling their lingerie designs in the early stages of pregnancy, was his daughter, Romy, in may 2012 and launched the blog this March. When we speak, Romy is upstairs with his nanny. "When I was a kid we had a nanny all the time," he says. "I really wanted to do the opposite at first. I made it a point to spend every minute with my daughter. I couldn't care about work; I just wanted to be with her. I had never even babysat. I was scared to hold a baby. Then everything came very naturally. "
Several months, had a nanny and now works at least three hours per day on the site, which has been compared to Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop, although it's less preachy. "My site is a beauty and style guide, not a parenting guide," he says. "I'm not the right person to give advice parenting – is too personal."
She is bewildered by the fuss on parenting manuals like French French children don't Throw food. "I feel very French. My baby was born in New York, but I want to have the French culture. I returned to sing French songs, which I did as a child. But all these books on French tips ... French diet, French, French schools education? "
His comments only would be: "French schools do a lot more homework and longer hours: say 8:30 to 17, with her homework on top. And I think people maybe not breastfeed so in France. No my friends, my mother did not, I do not think even my grandmother did. But I wanted to ".
French women, she says: "we are coquettish. It's funny: you could tell French women seem to put together, but not spending much time in the bathroom and tend to go for really minimal makeup during the day. I do, especially now that I have a baby. " As for exercise, she says, "French women don't work that much – we don't have gyms that are open at all hours that exist in the United States. Maybe it's food. The French do not snack – not only is part of the culture ".
She now is considering a range of designer maternity clothes that women can keep wearing after birth. Even at the shops of New York's most intelligent, she was shocked by what was on offer. "Everything was so awful, as if just because you're becoming a mother, not like fashion. It was too girly girly or mumsy. Topshop seemed only one works with trends and reproducing them for pregnant women. " She feels good maternity clothes should work beyond pregnancy. "I still had a bit of a bump. That was more difficult than when I was pregnant. When I was pregnant I wanted to show it; afterwards I wanted to hide. "
As for the children to dress up, the blogs carries Romy illustrations in various styles. These display the Parisian tendency to dress children in vintage clothing – ideally just baby clothes. His mother was a collection of Victorian style baby-wear, which has been handed down. It is closer to the French child Bonpoint shop, with its traditional knitting or cable in muted tones, the bright colors of the Anglo-American high street.
"At the beginning, Romy was only in white t-shirts, leggings, easy to wash," she says. "I'm not a big fan of designers for children: is cute but dirty themselves so fast. And only works for children if they are not replicas of adult clothes ".
What about Tom Ford kitten heels: does your child wear them? "Oh no, I am not to wear!" she says. "I can't even get on his foot to photograph them. I'm still in a box wrapped in tissue paper.
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