I don’t particularly like window shopping. Unless it involves acquiring some of Géraldine Gonzales’ crystal paper jellyfish. The l’Ecole Supérieure d’Arts Appliqués Duperré graduate and super sculptress dresses Parisian windows for some of the city’s finest – including Printemps, Sonia Rykiel, Christian Lacroix, Hermes, Baccarat, Van Cleef & Arpels, Guerlain, and Givenchy. I’ve never wanted [...]
Tag Archives: Paris
Flore Plans
I’ve been thinking alot about Paris lately. Café de Flore on the corner of the Boulevard Saint-Germain and the Rue St. Benoit will always be one of the most special places in the world to me. The classic deco interior of all red seating, mahogany and mirrors is original to World War II. Although Jean-Paul [...]
Who is Diane Pernet
I spent a long weekend in the French countryside with this wonderfully veiled woman in 1992, after the death of my friend Clovis Pennington’s brother, Gary Lee. We slept in the cottage of Gary’s lover’s (Franck’s) parents who graciously hosted Diane, his son’s lover’s brother (Clovis) and myself, an American stranger. It was a bizarre [...]
Sonia Playstation
Not only is Sonia Rykiel‘s collection always one of my favorites (thanks to a certain someone,) but her Spring 2009 collection was ultra-inspired this time around. Yes, she had the usual cavalcade of brilliant costume confections, killer styling, and adorable models sporting the iconic Sonia frizzy ‘do … But this time the genius was added [...]
Bazaar Fellow
As all who know me can attest, one of my greatest pleasures in life is “making things pretty.” No other artist has had a career in “making pretty” that I both admire and envy more than Art Deco diety Erté. To decorator junkies Erté (né Roman Petrovich Tyrtov) needs no introduction. The Russian born French [...]
High Fauchon
No this is not a Parisian shoe salon. It’s Fauchon, a luxury food shop on Paris’ Place de la Madeleine in the 8e arrondissement.
