Carine Roitfeld on Her New Wearable Calendars, Zodiac Signs and Why Fashion People are Very Generous

“It’s not just Champagne,” insisted Carine Roitfeld in her heavily accented English. The star editor and stylist, who was on a brief visit to New York to visit her children and her other baby — CR Fashion Book’s creative agency CR Studio — wants you to know that “fashion people are very generous.” So generous, in fact, that 12 models, Cindy Crawford, Irina Shayk and Doutzen Kroes among them, donated their time to pose for free for her CR Calendar 2020, with 100 percent of the proceeds going to charity. “I think sometimes people think fashion people, we’re not nice, we’re superficial, we’re selfish, we just think that beauty is the only important thing, but that’s totally wrong. You can be beautiful, you can be smart and you love to share what you get with others,” she said. In contrast to her two previous CR calendars where proceeds were donated to one charity, each model chose a cause this year. That includes the AmfAR for Stella Maxwell, Hetrick-Martin Institute for Miss Fame, Mothers2Mothers for Candice Swanepoel, Barc Shelter for Guinevere Van Seenus and Animal Haven for Carolyn Murphy. “I thought it would be good for the buyer or the reader to discover the charities

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