Articles tagged ‘Fashion’
Fashion Shows in Paris, 2008
By Parisgirl | January 28th, 2008 |
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I love Madame Figaro - friend of all of us regular people who don’t have carte blanche. You’ve always wanted to go to a Paris fashion show? It’s easy. You don’t have to be a jet setter to gain admittance to this fashion show. Just click your Prada or your Payless heels [...]
New Parisian Winter Sport: Shopping
By Parisgirl | January 3rd, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It’s January in Paris. Let the sales begin. The word for sale in French is ’solde’. If there’s one reason to come to Paris in January, it has to be wintersales which officially begin January 10th. January 10th to the 20th are the sale dates promoted by the City of Paris, [...]
Paris Street Fashion
By Parisgirl | November 19th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
So, this is the look: A loose fitting black jacket. Grey skirt. Black or grey opaque stockings and black boots. One of the Metro passengers, I interviewed assured me that the best place in town to get a good haircut was in the Marais district. “There’s plenty of salons there.”
You’ll [...]
Christmas Shopping on the Champs Elysees
By Parisgirl | November 15th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Photo by Chris Card Fuller ©2007
It may be only the 15th of November, but Champs Elysees is already getting spruced up for the Christmas Holidays. The smell of freshly cut pine trees is in the air as the City of Paris gardeners arrange Christmas trees on the Champs Elysees Rond Point. Aside [...]
Fall Fashion on Paris Streets - Gray is OK
By Parisgirl | November 5th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Photo by Chris Card Fuller ©2007
What you see on a fashion runway and what you’re likely to see on the streets of Paris may be quite different. One thing is certain, Fall is the season to come to Paris if you want to enjoy looking at French street fashion.
This is the season when women [...]
Best of the Bland: French Bathing Suits
By Parisgirl | August 1st, 2007 | Add a Comment »
What is it about French swimwear? I checked out Figaro’s Best Bathing Suits today (knowing that no way will I get to Paris Plage or any other beach today with way too much work piling up!) and Figaro’s choices confirm my conviction - that when it comes to swimwear, French bathings suits are just [...]
Fashion Tips for Presidential Hopefuls
By Parisgirl | August 1st, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Yesterday I mentioned some of the fashion foibles that hampered Segolene Royal’s campaign. As luck would have it, we met three Swiss guys and a German guy doing a little pre-celebration for August 1st. August 1st? Swiss Nation Day, of course!
Happy Birthday, Switzerland!
I took advantage of this occasion to ask the [...]
Paris Neighborhoods: La Goutte d’Or and the 10th arrond.
By Parisgirl | July 19th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Paris Logue readers may remember my first foray into the Goutte d’Or environs. Technically speaking Rue du Chateau d’Eau and Blvd. de Strasbourg aren’t part of the Goute d’Or neighborhood (which spans the 18th arrond from Barbes to Chateau Rouge to La Chapelle.
Alesia neighborhood, Discount Heaven, Cells Phones, and more
By Parisgirl | April 27th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Photo by Chris Card Fuller ©2007
You remember in a previous post (Black and White), I mentioned that if you ignore the shop windows, the clothing colors you’re most likely to see worn by women in the streets of Paris this spring are: black and white, black and red, and the eternal polka dot, with [...]
Hat Attack
By Parisgirl | April 26th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Hat display at Divine, 39 rue Daguerre
Photo by Chris Card Fuller ©2007
‘Simply Divine’ at Divine
Photo by Chris Card Fuller ©2007
It’s really hard for me to walk past Divine my favorite hat shop on Rue Daguerre Metro: Denfert Rochereau without - at least- peeking in the window.
With June weddings, polo - and horse racing season [...]
