Thank you very much rerehh! Your english is very good
And thank you for the elle france scans. It is a very interesting interview. Charlotte says she is currently reading "Steppenwolf" by Hermann Hesse. That is supposedly a pretty heavy book, but I may have to check it out.
I also think she says that she didn't become an editor because she was in a period of questioning and had finished her philosophy studies and "overnight" she decided to take on horse riding %100. She says she used to feel very distressed by competitions when she was younger because she is a perfectionist by nature, and she would become stressed just like at school "during exams". Today she says she feels more mature and at ease, but being sponsored by Gucci, she does have certain responsibilities and she wants to compete with the elite.
She also says she considers horse riding her profession, but she has a long way to go. She says she likes to promote the sport because it is the only sport that puts women and men on equal footing at the olympic level and it is the only sport with an animal. She says it takes patience, experience, and perseverance. Charlotte says she tends to think too hard and horses teach her to "live and be anchored in the real." She also mentions that she has very good horses.
She also talks about how Gucci created the "Flora" pattern especially for her grandmother Grace Kelly who was looking for a very specific scarf, so it made sense for her to partner with Gucci. This along with the fact the Gucci has long been associated with horses and that Frida Giannini, the creative director, loves horses made her decide to meet with them when she started competing again. She helped design her competition clothes, and she says that everything is colored Gucci. Right down to her gloves and the blankets for the horses. She says, "Nothing has been left to chance!"
They ask her if she is a fan of fashion and she says she is not obsessed with trends, but fashion, the work of designers, haute couture have always fascinated her. She also loves contemporary art, cinema, and literature.
At the end the magazine asks her if she feels close to Italy because Gucci is an Italian brand. She says that her father was Italian and a large number of her family lives there. She says that even on the Monaco side, they are of Genoese origin. She says she reads, writes, and understands Italian perfectly, but she does not speak it much. She speaks English with Frida. The she says something like, "Monegasque I knew, I live between London and Paris, but my roots is Italy!"
I hope I got that right and that it helps. Please correct me if I'm wrong!
Frida Giannini also told the magazine a little bit about Charlotte. I tried to translate it:
""Charlotte has an innate elegance."
By Frida Giannini, creative director of Gucci.
"A little intimidated, I thought meeting a princess would be highly formal. Instead, I found myself facing a very normal young woman, very determined, with a clear idea of what she wanted to do with the house Gucci . To fulfill her riding gear, we worked together on the choice of fabrics, colors and silhouettes. Charlotte even gave us a shirt that her mother wore when she rode a horse, and we reinterpreted. She has an innate elegance, her beauty was breathtaking, an aristocratic bearing. To me, Charlotte represents the epitome of Monaco, the symbol of a new generation of large families. In Italy, she is perceived as a celebrity and the memory of her grandmother, Grace Kelly, is still very present. "
