LA SEMAINE MAROCAINE
Yves St Laurent's house, Tangier
au revoir.
10.31.2011
10.28.2011
10.27.2011
10.26.2011
10.25.2011
10.24.2011
10.21.2011
MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL
MIROIR, MIROIR...
Take a small powder room, cover in mirrors, take a step back.
Wow!
Wow!
au revoir.
10.20.2011
10.19.2011
IT'S PARIS MOROCCO TIME AGAIN
C'EST LE MOMENT POUR UN PARIS MAROC
Why?
PARIS:
It is my relatively regular short opportunity to heal my needy heart: I see... what am I saying?, I embrace, kiss, look at, listen to, and really only very reluctantly let my 3 Paris children go to work , if they must...(Kevin, do you really have to live as far as Australia?)MOROCCO:
Tangier
Casablanca
no,no,no, not THAT one...
not that one either...
THIS Casablanca
Marrakesh
This time it is a week long working trip. I'll reveal what we will be working on later. Much too early at this point.
I have a few mini posts lined up to be published when I am away.
Hope you like them.
à bientot.
10.18.2011
10.17.2011
NICOLE PIBEAUT
Quite a few years ago in Paris, I met a wonderful illustratrice whose art I have always admired.
Her name is Nicole Pibeaut.
I love the portrait she did of Hélène Rochas, the wife of the couturier and perfumer Marcel Rochas, above.
During the last showhouse I participating in, she was generous enough to sketch the portrait of me, below..
Her ability to capture a sitter's expression in just a few strokes of her pencil is astounding
She does work for advertising and some calligraphy, but her work is mainly magazine illustrations.
She illustrated an article for Le Figaro Madame this month about men and their weight issues and wishes. Fun article and great illustrating.
Bravo, Nicole!
au revoir.
10.14.2011
FRENCH EYE VIEW
COUP D'OEIL
Just something that caught my eye.
image robert couturier via elle decor
The restrained color palette on a backdrop of creamy white, the tightly edited objects and furnishings, the contrast between small and gigantic, classic and dramatically modern and hot and cold tones, the 1940's vibe, the apparent comfort.
au revoir.
10.13.2011
THREE ZERO
TROIS ZERO
Today in Australia it is already my beautiful little Kevin's birthday
Well, in fact, he will be celebrating in Bali.
Well, in fact, he will be celebrating in Bali.
When I took this picture a little under 30 years ago, I had no idea what he would become 30 years hence; well...I had an idea; with a smile like that, I knew it was going to be all good, for us and for him.
My motherly instincts did not betray me. He is all good and so much more.
Happy Birthday
my cuddly little Kevin who became big, and tall, and cute, and kind and talented and a devil at making everyone melt- "fondre" as we say in French- and the list could go on and on.
I know, I am your mother...
You know I always tell the truth, even on the internet.
my cuddly little Kevin who became big, and tall, and cute, and kind and talented and a devil at making everyone melt- "fondre" as we say in French- and the list could go on and on.
I know, I am your mother...
You know I always tell the truth, even on the internet.
au revoir.
BEYOND THE REAL
PLUS FAUX QUE VRAI
Fur was back on the runways for winter. Real fur. I don't wear real fur.
I don't even wear faux-fur that resembles real animals; I mean leopard or fox or chinchilla; that kind of faux-fur.
I do on the other hand want to wear something furry feeling and looking this winter.
The great news is that faux-fur comes in all kinds of shapes and sizes and in styles that I will call "generic".
Fantastic!
Irt even comes in luscious colors.
Fur problem solved. Well, except for which color to choose...
Warmth, comfort and chic and no wearing an animal around my neck.
What more can a girl want?
au revoir.
10.12.2011
BEYOND THE SHEER
PLUS FIN QUE FIN
via kitearscat
All right, after my sartorial yearning for pale shades this winter, I am also wanting to wear chiffon. For daytime. I can wear a coordinated tank top underneath, a fine sweater or an easy jacket on top; it works from morning to night, if I don't go crazy on the froufrou (even though even then, I can dress it down with a very simple cardigan and wool pants or skirt and a soft scarf. Yes, always the scarves...
Warehouse
Equipment
A chiffon blouse with a scarf detail is a little more "formal", I would say, but right on this winter.
Mango
To finish off a chiffon style for day, I would choose a very light and airy scarf of the sheerest silk or even wool chiffon.
Echo Design
Burberry's and Issey Miyake
Alexander McQueen
Tomorrow, my last must have for winter. This one comes with a challenging choice...
au revoir.
10.11.2011
BEYOND THE PALE
PLUS PALE QUE PALE
I have been feeling like wearing pale powdery colors lately. From whites to pale grays, maybe a touch of very light lavender and even some hardly there blush shades; any slightly tinted cream, any ethereal misty blue will catch my eye every time.
Maybe its a wish for softness before the hard dark winter? a change from the brights of summer? a continuation after the nudes of spring?
It's not as if this last weekend was anything resembling winter. No, no, quite the contrary; it was delightfully, EXACTLY like a very warm spring day.
An unexpected very welcome gift of an Indian summer from Mother Nature.
So maybe that's where this yearning for barely colored tones comes from: the gentleness of the weather.
Do you feel the same way?
au revoir.