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Carine Roitfeld smells of matches and burned Vanilla, like the end of a birthday party. She orders a coffee in the elegant cafe next door to her Paris apartment, and when I tell her how good she smells she leans forward and says: "That is the most wonderful thing I could hear today." She is working on her own perfume, she explains. This is a test scent --"Still to sweet, no?" and as we talk it fades into the cafe air, sugaring the things she says. Roitfeld, the former editor of French Vogue, founder of her own magazine CR, recently appointed global fashion director of Harper's Bazaar and Tom Ford's "ideal woman" is at 58, the star and subject of a new documentary. Instead of the severe woman in suspenders she kne her critics were expecting. Roitfeld is deadpan and dry. Her humour creeps up on you mid-sentence. She says she agreed to make the film over green tea with constant. "I was not even drunk yet, she shrugs, "but I said OK" Her supporting cast in Mademoiselle C is made up of the people who have defined fashion's aesthetic for the past 10, 20 years. "It's difficult to find a new family in fashion, but that's what I had to do. :I hope in Mademoiselle C people don't think I'm too 'me me me'. I hope it shows that fashion can be a nice world, if a bit crazy. I hope it shows you can be a mother in fashion, and that frienships are possible. She dranks her coffee and smiles shyly, her teeth very white against her brown skin. As we stand to say goodbye, she winks at me. "I have a lot of tricks I've learned," she says, "And now it's time to share them."