Emmanuelle Alt Taught Me How To Dress
Paris Fashion Week is upon us, and I can't stop thinking about her. Plus, what's "hot foot"?
During the digital street style boom of the mid-2000s and 2010s, many of the outfits photographed were fantastical, fresh from the runway, and, at times, fabulously outré. There were asphalt characters like the flamboyant, leggy Anna Dello Russo and her majestic dome contraptions. The perpetually coiffed comrade of Russians like Miroslava Duma and Anya Ziourova. The blindingly bright bloggerdom of Bryan Boy, Susie Lau, and Tavi Gevinson. Even Carine Roitfeld and her catlike kohl and itty-bitty wiggle skirts felt otherworldly.
And then there was Emmanuelle Alt, a fashion director at French Vogue who later became the magazine’s editor-in-chief. The lithe brunette stylist transformed Brazilian bombshell Isabeli Fontana and Canadian model Daria Werbowy into dozens of personalities, like a glorious gunslinging cowboy, a glam biker, or a girl next door. Her looks were, well, simple.