There’s something I like even more than taking streetstyle pictures, and that’s getting photos of things that speak directly to me. Like, all the stuff I want to wear myself, you know?
The first time I brought out my camera was this for this reason. I was looking for my own style and magazines were giving me no help, so I started looking elsewhere.
Soon after I started attending the fashion weeks, I developed a fascination for the fantastic and perfect outfits, on someone like Carine Roitfeld, or the fantastic and totally extravagant ones like Anna Dello Russo. It’s all fashion after all. There is no better opportunity to show off your love of clothes and really experiment.
When fashion editors and stylists put together outfits that just scream “fashioooooon!!!” ” Oh looooook it’s Céliiiiiiiiine’s last collection!” or “I have 867 different prints on my back!” : I just love it when it’s well done. At the same time, I like the looks like Emmanuelle Alt’s: simple, clear, sexy, and recognizable.
What gets me the most though are the looks that inspire me on a more personal level. Not necessarily the ones that say “take my photo right away or I’ll have to chaaaaangeeee!” but the subtle lines that I end up putting in my style notebook and end up remember during my next shopping trip.
A flared skirt, a pair of simple heels, a mix of textures, a striped sweater… That’ll keep me inspired for spring!
After Raf Simons’ goodbye at Jil Sander yesterday, a wave of emotion came over the audience. Standing ovation, wet eyes, emotional tweets.
But we’re not losing Raf Simons (everybody says he’s going to Dior). Nor Jil Sander, on the contrary, as Jil Sander is returning to Jil Sander.
I think that it’s a sense of impermanence that we can feel in fashion that made us so emotional yesterday.
Why get attached to a brand if the designer changes so often ? Why follow the work of a designer when, just as he’s mastering the codes of one fashion house, he then has to dive into the history of another?
Sometimes, like Ghesquière at Balenciaga, I’d like for them to stay with one house. And to continue to write the story of their creativity with serenity.
Kids, there is a bit of a crazy thing going on with prints. I love it !!! And even if Viviana’s look is much more editorial than street (I have to say that it’s becoming a bit of a frenzy outside the shows, it’s almost more dressed up than the most sophisticated of Vogue), I like the idea of mixing clashing prints from the same family. Like flowers, plaids, dots, or others. Oh by the way do you remember this picture ?
Yes ! From 2010 !
And you see more and more prints worn together… Which, after having been the most unfashionable thing for about 20 years, is about to become the coolest. My grandma is jumping with joy.
So, tell me, are you ready to have prints clash all over your body or do you think I am totally too influenced by the fashion bubble ?
Take a look, there’s a lot going on. Everything from my ginger tea with Diane Von Furstenberg to a run-in with Julianne Moore, some lunch with friends in there and tons, tons, tooooooons of fashion. You’ll understand right away why we called this episode, “Hey Ladies!” :-)
Big hugs!
PS: I want to send a huge thank you to the entire team of Pardon My French who supported me and who I just love to death, especially PJ, to whom I send all my affection. A big thank you as well to Net-à-Porter for their support and to BMW for the car because we couldn’t have done all this in a taxi :-)
Pardon My French is also available on the Huffington Post USA and I want to thank the Stylelist team for their unwavering trust.
I began my blog in June, 2006. I was an illustrator and growing frustrated – with the type of work I was getting, yes, but mostly frustrated because I wasn’t really connecting with the readers of the magazines I was working for. I wanted to do something a little more free, more spontaneous. I had ...
