Sophie Fontanel, a French author specializing in fashion. (Credit: DR.)
"Of course, with pleasure! I know your newspaper very well." When offered an interview, Sophie Fontanel almost automatically accepts, without hesitation. A friend of Lebanon and Rabih Kayrouz, for whom she has modeled, the 62-year-old writer has carved out a path in the French fashion world, endowed with a disarming simplicity and kindness in this milieu.So much so that today hundreds of thousands of internet users, both young and old, follow her adventures on social networks.The author of dozens of books and bestsellers translated into many languages, the daughter of Armenian refugees has made her gentleness a credo, turning her supposed weaknesses into a strength. She fiercely defends (long before the trend) the beauty of gray hair and the poetry of wrinkles, attacking automatic thinking and clichés.When attending a fashion...
"Of course, with pleasure! I know your newspaper very well." When offered an interview, Sophie Fontanel almost automatically accepts, without hesitation. A friend of Lebanon and Rabih Kayrouz, for whom she has modeled, the 62-year-old writer has carved out a path in the French fashion world, endowed with a disarming simplicity and kindness in this milieu.So much so that today hundreds of thousands of internet users, both young and old, follow her adventures on social networks.The author of dozens of books and bestsellers translated into many languages, the daughter of Armenian refugees has made her gentleness a credo, turning her supposed weaknesses into a strength. She fiercely defends (long before the trend) the beauty of gray hair and the poetry of wrinkles, attacking automatic thinking and clichés.When attending a...
