There are certain women you see all the time on my blog, and that’s just simply because they inspire me the most.

Take Elisa for example. During the fashion weeks, I can always pick her out in a crowd. She’s the queen of color blocking and has the most feminine tomboy look I’ve ever seen. I just love it. That said, I wondered what she would say if I asked her the same questions Emmanuelle Alt was asked (that interview about Emmanuelle’s staples really stuck with me and I find myself going back to it all the time, and it even dates back to the 90s! Truly a timeless woman…) It was super last minute and she was in the middle of a shoot (Elisa is a stylist) but since she’s just such a dear heart, here’s what she responded…

My Top: a silk shirt buttoned all the way up, in any blue or turquoise shade.

My Bottom: Men’s shaped trousers that are a bit short at the ankles. My favorites are vintage Chloé from the Phoebe Philo period.

My Jeans: I have to say I have just recently started to wear jeans (I discovered them while I was pregnant) but my favorites now are a pair of skinny, but not too tight at the ankles (I hate that-I call it the leggings effect), beige Zara ones! I have worn that so much they are falling into pieces : (

My Evening: I’m always swearing on silk! Whatever it could be…a blouse with a pair of shantung masculine trousers or a Dries Van Noten silk dress (I’m obsessed right now with an emerald green one…)

My Intimates: La Perla for their amazing bras and Intimissimi panties, invisible ones: no stitching, no elastic bands, perfection!

My Coat: Mmmh I have too many and I love to change it all the time… But I would say my essential for this winter, and I’m really wearing it all the time, is a suuuuper light and incredibly soft blue-grey Fendi. It has a pretty classic shape, it’s knee length, with a hidden button.

My Bag: It’s the same as the coats … I don’t really have one in particular but in my wardrobe there are for sure essentials to have:

-One clutch bag or an envelope-shaped one.

-A really big one, like a shopping bag shape, a cabas in French, where you can put your life in it and mine includes a baby, so I always need enough space to put toys, etc…

My Shoes: Well, you know I’m a shoe freak… I don’t even know how many pairs I own…but for essentials I would definitely say:

-A pair of flat derbys, like the Fred from Louboutin.

-A pair of Repetto Zizi.

- A pair of very extravagant, very high heels like Pierre Hardy.

My Accessories: I love and live for accessories so they are definitely an essential for me! What I could not live without are belts, scarves, and necklaces!

My Watch: I don’t wear one, I make them go crazy… But if I would it would be a Chanel one, the small one with the chain bracelet.

My Glasses: Love sunglasses! My essentials are a pair of KBL’s.

My Scent: A very old Sicilian perfume called Zagara, it’s made from oranges and lemon trees flowers, and jasmine flower. I can’t live without it!!!

My Blonde: Platinum blonde always! Very cold tone, almost white! My Hair is always done by Karin Bigler, a wonderful hair stylist with who I work with a lot. She comes to my house or I go to her, since I haaate going to hair salons!

My Lip: Bright matte orange from Mac.

My Skin: Natural, I only use Bare Minerals and Nuxe gold oil.

My Inspiration: My inspirations are sooooo many! Art, photography, movies, vintage, nature !!! I do not really have icons but I do have a great great admiration for Coco Chanel and Wallis Simpson…

And there you have it!!! To close, here’s a quick Elisa tour… Big hugs!

Elisa in the photobooth at the Palais de Tokyo…

Elisa at Claus…

Elisa with Giovanna, Italia Poweeeeer ! (In a Lahssan trench, a young designer who makes amazing trenches.)

Elisa before she went all crazy platinum blonde.

A quick look at her shoe collection that I took for Vogue a million and a half years ago…

Translation : Tim Sullivan

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Cool layering of jackets for Christine (short sleeves over long sleeves) and even cooler jean jacket (bleached on the sleeves) by Dries Van Noten. Actually it’s all in the way she belts the jacket. It makes layering less… Thickening ?

So fun her notebook is matching her outfit :-)

Long live oversized ! Long live prints ! Long live Dries Van Noten !!!

As told by the exhausted-at-the-end-of-fashion-week-girl. Kisses !

I am not sure this kind of skirt would look good on me, but I am still dreaming of Dries Van Noten and Marc Jacobs’ winter collections… I love it.

To understand what I am talking about, just take a quick look at the video underneath… Kisses!

Et voilà…

The last video from Autumn-Winter fashion week 2010!!!

To close it out, I chose Dries Van Noten.

His collections always touch very close to my heart.

I don’t know why, but I think that he sums up the whole season well. A season full of nostalgia and timelessness, but also marked by a newfound energy and an incredible surge of passion from the public. The electricity of the Céline show really was palpable.

We also saw a new woman make an appearance, fresher, softer than previous seasons, you remember, the one that dressed all in black, perched in killer heels and covered in studs… The woman today has pink cheeks, wears camel, khakis, and a messenger bag because it’s more comfortable.

I don’t know about you, but this definitely made me so wonderfully hopeful about the future. Do you feel the same way I do? What were your favorite collections?

Translation: Tim Sullivan

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Jacket, Dries Van Noten

I remember September in New York. It was fashion week and sashaying before me were all nude shades, cream colors, warm whites…

It was ho-hum boring. I wanted color!

This weekend, I had the same initial reaction at Département Féminin. And though I was shopping for colored shirts, gold shoes, greens, blues…

Dress, Balenciaga

… Everything that made me fall for Carole’s superb selection of clothes revolved around white. So impressive it was that I let myself get caught up in the soothing sensuality of its colors…and wanted nothing else to photograph.

Dress Acne, beaded chain Marie Seguy

My last two days were anything but what you see in the last photo. I was confined to my bed with I don’t even know how much of a fever, calling my mom, my man, my dad, my man, my super, anyone and everyone. Not for a second was I as glamourous as Chloé.

Kisses to you all. I’m quite happy to be back on my feet again.  Nothing like a good ol’ feverous delirium to remind you how good it is to feel alive again.

And to my lovely comforter, I thank you for your time, but i must now attend to the outside world.  Bonne journée!

Translation : Magali Eva Suárez & Tim Padraic Sullivan.