All posts in “paris”

Studs and Stripes

October 31, 2009 / 6 Comments

La Coupine 1 is finally back in town and we spent some quality girls time today: a little shopping, strolling through the streets and good coffee of course. Perfect saturday!

Blazer and studded gloves

Wearing my “souvenirs” from Paris: studded gloves and a double-breasted wool-blazer. BTW this chocolate-colored vespa from the 50′s belongs to an antique store in that street. It’s great!

Close-up of the gloves

Close-up of the gloves. They are definitely the coolest accessory I own! Found at Le Bon Marché on the ground floor.

Twilight

The rest of this outfit is rather basic. I am saving the dressing-up for tonight;-). It’s Halloween (as one can easily tell by the two giant pumpkins in the background)! Have a great night out everyone!

Blazer: Isabel Marant Étoile, striped tee: H&M, wool vest: Humanoid, old skinnies, gloves: from Le Bon Marché Paris, ballerinas: Tory Burch.

Garance Doré

October 22, 2009 / 7 Comments

Garance Dore

Garance Doré is one of our all time favourite bloggers!  She has an incredible talent to take pictures of girls, which underline their inner beauty. And Garance has a great sense of humour. We LOVE her stories about her newest style addictions, little fashion emergencies and all the other girl talk. So it has become one of our favourite daily routines, to check her blog in the morning! Garance has been doing some great work and has been rewarded for that: recently, she launched a limited collection of T-shirts with the GAP (which sadly sold out immediately) and is now working very closely with French Vogue (could there be a better match?) to do some behind the scenes coverage.

Taking our high appreciation for Garance’s work, you can certainly imagine that we had the most surreal moment ever, when we met her and the Sartorialist in the Metro on the way to the Chloe Show, during Fashion Week. Garance was stunning in person! So natural, and sweet and very chic wearing her short- sleeved Max Mara coat. So we talked to her – actually Garance did most of the talking, we were so taken by her charisma that we could merely sit there and listen. We were even too excited to ask for a picture (sooo stupid of us!!).

Well, I promise I stop obsessing now…but let me still show you some of my very favourite pictures by Garance…

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Picture of the day: biking in Paris

October 15, 2009 / 9 Comments

bikes in paris

I just love this picture of super hot Entourage star Adrian Grenier (you might also know him as the cute boyfriend in the Devil Wears Prada) riding a bike in Paris. When we were in Paris last week, we noticed bikes ALL over the place, they really seem to be the new ‘It’ accessory.

Note to myself: when I’m moving to Paris in January, I gotta get myself a bike asap, plus a cute guy to ride it with ;-)

Picture: the Sartorialist

Shopping guide: Le Marais

October 12, 2009 / 10 Comments

Shopping guide_Marais

We spent our last day in PARIS in the city’s most charming and trendy district: LE MARAIS. On a Thursday afternoon it has quite a peaceful “small-village”-atmosphere and invites you to stroll around, take a look at the small boutiques and galeries, sit down outside the boho-cafè “La Perle“, watch stylish people pass by and just be INSPIRED…

Here’s where u really HAVE to go when u are in Paris.

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Les Coupines in Paris

October 6, 2009 / 1 Comment

We are off to PARIS for the next couple of days and so excited about Fashion Week! Voila, a small selection of the things we will be doing (sorted by probability of occurence!!)

shopping

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Love story

October 4, 2009 / 5 Comments

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Isabel Marant + Me = Total Love Story

Season after season, I’m a huge fan of  Marant’s effortless and oh so Parisian style! So for next Spring it’s gonna be the sexy Pirate girl look with embellished jackets, hot pink and as always very short dresses. I don’t know about you, but I’m totally digging it !! Check the whole collection here.

First Lady of Fashion Blogging

September 7, 2009 / 6 Comments

Garance at he Sartorialist book signing

Saturday, 5th September, 4:30 p.m. at Colette Paris.

Crowds of young Parisians and international followers of the Sartorialist are queuing outside the famous concept store to get their copy of THE BOOK signed by Scott Schuman himself. It is almost impossible to enter the store and one could easily assume that some popstar came down to shake hands and give autographs. And there, in the middle of flashing cameras, excited fans, the hardworking Colette-staff and next to a very busy Scott, she sits shining and smiling gracefully: GARANCE DORÉ.

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Off to Paris

September 4, 2009 / 4 Comments

La Parisienne

Leaving for Paris tomorrow morning! Yes, yes, yes!!! Oui, oui, oui!!! I am actually going to visit my friend Melina, a true Parisienne (even though she claims that she’s not!). BTW this picture was taken by the Sartorialist in the streets of Paris (one of his greatest shots in my opinion) and everytime I look at it it just makes me smile cause it’s an amazing portrait of the all-Parisienne-girl. Classic cuts, discreet colors, vintage Dior Lady bag, undone hair and smoking OF COURSE!

Will keep u all updated about whats going on in pre-fashionweek-Paris;-). Bonne nuit!

Ticket to Paris

August 22, 2009 / No Comments

Ticket to Paris

I finally got my tickets for Paris this fall (one’s for Fashion Week!) and I can’t wait to get on that train. Since my personal fashion summer had been rather american-ized (with lots of cropped denim and casual tees), this fall will be all about the French Chic! The MAGNIFIQUE Julia Restoin-Roitfeld and her effortlessly elegant, sexy way of dressing inspired me to list a few “Paris basics”.

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