Garance Doré

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Oh, of course it’s nice to eat everything you want.

In all my “Feel Good Books” and in tons of magazines I come across, I’m realizing it’s totally in right now to think that… Diets are in the past. Now you have to satiate your senses and eat until you’re full, that’s it, and that’s what’s most important.

All in all, I think it’s a good start.

It helped me to stop blaming myself in the months that followed my “crisis”. It helped me to stop blaming myself, but it also helped me a lot to continue not being able to button my jeans.

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I love Naz’s Hair.

I also love her style, but I can’t help going back to her hair as I find it gives her a fantastic allure.

And you know what ?

Beware, I am about to turn the whole subject to me, I warn you.

You know what ? I think I have the same hair. Pretty much.

It’s weird. Since I’ve had my Keratin Treatment, my hair has changed. It’s more curly and it has more volume than it ever had before. I’d heard these things happen. Just know it if you’re about to have a Keratin Treatment!

But even if I love Naz’s hair, on me it just doesn’t work. Sometimes on an bold day I let them dry naturally, find it super cute and just go out like that, but after five minutes I have that feeling everybody’s looking at my big hair and there you go, I put it up.

I’ve heard it’s not good to wear it up all the time. Unless you make a very loose bun, it breaks the hair. And it’s even worse if you do that on wet hair… Which I do all the time. Just know this if you have them up all the time !

But why are we able to love on others what we can’t stand on ourselves ?

Tamiko’s Eyes

So, can you guess what I am going to talk about ?

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my nights are more beautiful than your days...

Everywhere, everywhere, everywhere. Everywhere I’m seeing girls who want to make me jealous with their supernatural blondness. What’s going on here? This season, everyone’s gone platinum blonde.

Aaaah la la. This is giving me goosebumps.

I think this is absolutely sublime. It’s totally rock and angelic at the same time and I get the impression that all platinum blondes automatically have a life much more fascinating than mine. 100% sure. All of them. It’s gotta be.

So there you have it. If one day I take a nose dive into a bucket of bleach, at least you’ll know why.

Bonne journée!

Translation : Tim Sullivan

(Français) hello princesse !

Sorry, this entry is only available in Français.

Everybody wants it and nobody knows

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la muse et l’artiste

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Ce coup là, je ne m’y attendais pas du tout. Invitée pour la présentation du nouveau make-up artist de Lancôme, j’étais là, tranquille, en train de raconter ma vie comme toujours, quand arrivent Alice et Aaron. Ils ont quelque chose, ça se sent tout de suite. On me les présente.

Aaron c’est donc la nouvelle star du make up. Il me présente Alice, son assistante et sa muse, puis s’intéresse à moi. Pas un mot sur lui. Puis on me l’arrache. J’en profite pour prendre quelques photos d’Alice dont le style, l’humour et l’étrange et vénéneuse beauté me vont droit au coeur. On accroche assez vite, on déconne, on parle de photo, de Stephen Malkmus, notre héros, elle m’étrangle parce que j’ai vu Pavement en concert. Et on parle de New York, où elle vit quand elle ne parcourt pas le monde.

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Alice porte un vrai bleu de travail, avec une veste et des bottes Westwood

Mais la conférence commence. En bonne mauvaise élève, j’arrive en retard, je me prépare à m’ennuyer sévère, j’envoie des oeillades à mes copines, limite je fais des avions et du papier mâché.

Puis Aaron commence à parler. Et là, je ne comprends pas ce qui m’arrive. Il m’émeut. Son humour, sa simplicité, son accent hyper bizarre, sa façon de parler de son boulot, de ses débuts, de ses héros, de Rei Kawakubo, de Slimane, de Kate Moss avec qui il bosse.

De ces gens en présence de qui, dit-il, l’existence vibre et les idées s’entrechoquent.

Je commence à l’écouter, bouche bée. Je sens ce truc indescriptible, ce petit souffle précieux qui vous cueille quand vous ne vous y attendez pas. Je sais pas, genre, l’inspiration.

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À la fin du truc, j’ai complètement oublié qu’on est là pour parler de rouge à lèvres. Je vais le remercier comme j’aurais remercié Bob Dylan à la fin d’un concert, la fille à peine impressionnée. Je ne raconte plus du tout ma vie. Et je repars, enchantée.

Quelques jours après, je reçois un coup de fil de chez Lancôme. Aaron s’est intéressé à mon boulot. Il est venu faire un tour ici, il a aimé mes dessins. Il aimerait, si je suis d’accord, qu’on travaille ensemble.

Je ne vous parle pas souvent de mon boulot, mais je peux vous dire un truc. Même si on ne fait jamais rien avec Aaron, c’est pour des rencontres comme ça que je bosse. Tout le reste, c’est du bla bla.

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BLUE’S CLUES

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Like one happy family, there I was with my mother and M. (my mom’s friend who I haven’t seen in 20 years), enjoying a serving of Bordeaux Rillettes* at Au Sauvignon, on rue des Saint Pères (but of course, it’s another story of my life). So we were  intoxicated and talking about how unbelievable it was that we haven’t changed, when Mélodie takes a seat from across the table.

Her traffic-stopping beauty took our breath away which wasn’t so bad knowing that we were on our third bottle of Saint-Émillion and my mother began showing the contents of her purse to the young girls on the other table. (Nuh-uh, not telling you that thing inside the purse. But here’s a hint: it’s mentioned in this post).

Me: Excuse me, I’ll go take a photo.

M: …and the girl looks delightfully charming.

My mother: Go ahead and have your photo taken, then send it to your sister (13-year old Sacha with glorious hair looking exactly like Mélodie’s yet flattened daily, conscientiously and rigorously for a more layered look) and tell her to quickly get rid of her straightening iron.

There’s my mom’s personal message to Sacha and all the girls who don’t know what to do with all that big hair. Amen.

On another note, what’s with the little blue vintage dresses and long necklaces? The anchor pendant à la Fonfonelle is from a boutique in the Marais quarter. It’s marked Culotte**. Does the name ring a bell?

Elsewhere, I immediately went inside the first thrift store at the corner and made seemingly foolish buys—a hat that’s too small, a shirt that’s too big and a dress to be cut and made into a great skirt. One day, perhaps. If I won’t use it as an apron, that is.

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Do you remember my photos of Valentine Filiol-Cordier? Online magazine Dirrty Glam posted them in an interview with one of my favorite it-girls. Click here to see the link! Bisou!

* Click here and here for details related to rillettes. And here for a closer look at the dish (photo credit:Laura Neulat).

** Found it! Photos of Culotte, the shop. And view here for the real meaning of “culotte(s)”, the French word.

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Garance Doré

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 ...

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