Carine Roitfeld wants to show you that "Fashion can be a Nice World"

                        Carine Roitfeld is on a one-woman mission to prove that the fashion world isn't the nail-scratching, back-stabbing and genuinely terrifying place that one would assume from an overdose of Ugly Betty and Zoolander reruns. Mademoiselle C, a documentary focused on the former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief turned Harper's Bazaar global director, is released later this month, and in an interview with the Guardian, La Roitfeld claims that she wants to demonstrate that "fashion can be a nice world, if a bit crazy...I hope it shows you can be a mother in fashion, and that friendships are possible.
               The film includes cameos from fashion high rollers Tom Ford, Karl Lagerfeld and Donatella Versace, as well as appearances from the achingly hip Roitfeld clan. We're already mildly obsessed with Team Roitfeld, and documentary's insight into the family dynamic promises to be fascinating, if a tiny bit therapy couch-worthy. "They never tell me 'I love you' , but I know it," Carine says in the interview. "When people hear my son say I'm a Milf....well, I hope they understand our sense of humour. We work seriously but don't take ourselves seriously. Roitfeld's work has traditionally been a combination of people, props and dirty ideas. The clothes come second. "I prefer the woman to the clothes," she maintains. "I prefer someone to say I look beautiful than to ask what I'm wearing.
                        "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 friendships are possible." She drains 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." Mademoislle C is released on 20 September and available on DVD and download from 28 October.