The Modern Muse: Julia Restoin-Roitfeld

Every week on The Modern Muse, in-house muse and fashion guru Monique Cortez waxes poetically about her favorite It Girls, European waifs and other noteworthy titans of steez and fashion. This week, Monique opens up a bit and manages to squeeze in not one but two muses: model, freelance art director and the leggy spawn of Carine Roitfeld, Julia Restoin-Roitfeld, as well as NOLA-based rapper and recipient of Lil Wayne mouth-kisses, Birdman. Consider this the blog version of Jay-Z namedropping — and mispronouncing — Maison Martin Margiela.

Julia Restoin-Roitfeld:

The light-hearted amiable butterfly
all the best parties in paris whirl around.
From dancing all night on the tables of Le Montana
to radiating her bratty charms at the Crillon.

and just the mere idea of hedonistically romping
around with such a dark, two-legged bear cub of dionysian proportion
every moonlit evening
would be enough to make us want to
pop ‘champagne like we won a championship game’
for the rest of our youth.