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Leather, it’s the best thing you can find to add some provocation to a little dress.

Let your leather get a tad worn, toss in some bare legs, some studs, any and all other biker elements that you can find, the smile of an angel just to show you’re still a sensitive woman, and you’re the fashion top-of-the-pops rock team heaven of the cool way up top way up high in the stars with Kate Moss, Eric Wasson, and… hmm… Vanessa Traina, yep, even her.

Oh man, said like that, I’m getting some inspiration!  I’m heading out, I’m going to rev up the engine on my bicycle.

Big hugs, Bonne journée!

Translation : Tim Sullivan

So why don’t I have any tattoos?

It’s not that I don’t like them. Nope, I love ‘em. I’ve always loved ‘em.  I think they’re romantic, unreasonable, thoughtless and eternal all at the same time. Therefore, I love them.

It’s just that with tattoos, I treat them like pricey jewelry. If I ever get a desire to get one, I say to myself okay, take a year to think about it and if you still want it next year, go ahead and get it. One year, that’s short for something that will last a lifetime.

I’ve been thinking getting one since I was 18, and not one tattoo passed the one-year test.  Every time, at the end of the year, I end up saying, “Ohhhhh thank god you didn’t get that!!!”

A fairy (at 18). The name of my boy (at 20). A ship anchor (at 23). A rose (at 25). A famous painting (I mean c’mon on now, what?) (at 26). The name of a different guy (at 28)(okay, maybe just his initial)(Just the initial? He didn’t take that so well.)(Well, what?  G.  That’s a good initial, am I right?).

You get why I’m saying Ohhhhhhh thank god ?

So I’m not a tattoo kind of girl, voilà. Voilà!!! Simple as that.

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Wait a minute there, what’s this I see?

Could it be the first signs of the hunting, fishing, nature and tradition trend* highlighted by the wonderful Miuccia Prada for this winter?

You all have your hats? You got your Barbour coat?  Your tweed?  Your khakis, your russets, your camels?

Everyone have their thigh high fishing waders?

No?

Well then what are you going to sink your teeth into this winter?

Translation : Tim Sullivan

*Translator’s note : Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Tradition (French : Chasse, Pêche, Nature, Tradition) is a political party in France (CPNT) that aims to defend the traditional values of rural France. If they were über fashionable, they’d look like these two up above.