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Before you get too excited by these images, as the title might suggest, this is not an article about a new designer fashion trend for crocheted bags. (And you may or may not remember a little article I did a while back called 3 Reasons to Stop being an a** hole and say NO to [...]
Paris is just one of those places in the world where talented people get together and make magical things. Filmmaker Spike Jonze and one of the few handbag designers in the world I actually think is worth raving about these day, Olympia Le-Tan, got together to collaborate on a short film set in one of [...]
They say the name ‘flea market’ first originated from the legendary Paris antiques market of St. Ouen, when an unknown bargain hunter in the 1880s looked down from nearby fortifications, observed junk dealers selling their scrap and allegedly exclaimed, “My word, but it’s a market of fleas!” In reality, it is anything but. On my [...]
Not to be confused with your average airplane barf bag or something to carry around that mushy banana you didn’t eat for lunch– I present to you the latest accessory on le fashion scene, a Jill Sander brown paper bag, retailing at (drum roll please) $290. Yes, two-hun-dred-and-nine-ty. Can adorable puppies be pulled out of [...]
I do believe it was payday on monday for all you who aren’t desperately still searching for work have found their dream jobs despite the black hole that is the job market out there. So here’s a list of 5 things to lust over this weekend and 5 things that should absolutely make you feel like a consumerist twat, [...]
Givenchy **** Diane Von Furstenberg **** Chanel **** Beavaldes for CoutureLab.com **** “Maricel Soriano” Paua Clutch- Celestina Collection **** Corto Moltedo His parents managed Bottega Veneta in the 1990s until they sold it to the Gucci Group, Corto Moltedo is the king of clutches. ****
I’d say I’ve been collecting Hervé Chapelier bags since my early teens, I cannot leave Paris without falling for yet another colour variation. You may recognise them as the preppy bags adopted by American college girls in the nineties (the Japanese also go crazy for them), but for me, this will always be a quintessentially [...]
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The garden state; where gas prices are cheaper and boardwalks are longer, and also where Napoleon
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Apparently Keira Knightley and her co-stars improvised their way through this thirteen minute
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He was selling custom-made clothing to Hip Hop’s finest for thousands of dollars a piece,
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Every once in a while, a fashion brand does something that stays with you and swims around in your
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I had you at ‘Free Wine & Cheese‘, didn’t I? If you’ve been umming and
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I remember when I first saw it, Avenue Junot, the cobblestone road that winds up to Montmartre
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The first post seems to have tickled your fancy, so over the past month I’ve been collecting
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After only five years in Paris, “Genevieve de Milwaukee” has gone from editorial
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I came across the fantastic photograph below and knew there had to be more preserved sassy moments
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It all started when I saw a beetroot salad Caprese and thought how much it reminded me of my
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Another season, another Paris Fashion Week! Nessy and her pal Kath couldn’t resist getting
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High heels were not originally intended to be worn by women. In fact, the coveted red-soled
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Anna Karina arrived in Paris at the age of seventeen from Denmark. She spoke no French and
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