Posts Tagged ‘Paris’

Socks and Shoes

 
Sexy Gamine Milano
 

It seems that European girls are working this socks and brogues look this summer.

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Posted on 07/08/10
 

On the Street…..Giovanna’s Back!, Paris

 
Giovanna, Paris
 

Everything about this is wonderful: the coat, the bag, the shoes, the combination of all of the above, the fact that it is Paris, the lack of rain!

Le sigh.

Thanks to The Sartorialist.

Posted on 03/30/10
 

Love at Last Look

 
Louis Vuitton Fall 2010
 

I scarcely dare admit it but after Dries Van Noten I had reached visual overload and my attention span for Fashion Week in Paris waned. If it weren’t for The Moment I would have missed Marc Jacobs’ charming, Frenchified version of 50s-inspired dresses for Louis Vuitton. And that would have been so very sad. I am so in love.

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Posted on 03/14/10
 

On the Street…..Red, Black & White, Paris

 
The Sartorialist
 

I so love the mix of colors and textures here.

Thanks to The Sartorialist.

Posted on 03/08/10
 

My Favorite Collection from Paris

 
Dries Van Noten Fall 2010
 

In her review of Paris Fashion Week for the New York Times, Cathy Horyn says:

The problem for fashion in the age of instant access to images is simple: Without extremely willful individuals exerting their imaginations, experimenting with new materials and shapes, the industry as a whole will seem weak to the people who follow it. There must be something exceptional, almost violently strong and not immediately accessible, if fashion is to be a force.

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Posted on 03/04/10
 

A Derriere Worth Biting

 
Derriere in the Marais
 

The Sunday New York Times dedicated their ‘Bites’ column to a little restaurant in the Marais called Derriere. As the reviewer says, its charming second-floor fumoir is enticing enough to make even the most stalwart non-smoker want to sneak up for a puff. Arguably Paris’s “most eccentric new restaurant” Derriere “masquerades as a Belleville-meets-Bushwick boho apartment.”

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Posted on 02/08/10
 

On the Street….After YSL, Paris

 
12110Lanvinbag4361Web
 

Oh, yes!

Thanks to The Sartorialist.

Posted on 01/30/10