“Coco & Igor”… A Passionate Affair…
For… a brief…
Interlude…
Coco Chanel… and…
Igor Stravinsky…
Had an… affair…
It was… 1920…
A dangerous… liaison…
Stravinsky… was a married man…
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Style & Travel
Chanel No. 5… at Palais de Tokyo…
CHANEL… No. 5…
Coco… Chanel’s…
Iconic…
Perfume…
“Une historie d’amour”…
A… love story…
A… “Reminiscence”…
As Proust… called it…
Of a time… lost…
A bereavement… which was never…
Forgotten…
A… memory…
Forever… cherished…
Of a love interrupted… by loss…
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“Murano – Fragile”… at the Musée Maillol…
Spellbound….
By the… beauty….
Of the… glass art…
At… the…
“MURANO – FRAGILE”…
“Chefs-d’œuvre de verre de la Renaissance au XXIe siècle”…
Exhibition… at the…
Musée Maillol…
I was… reminded…
Of a… hazy morning…
In… Venice…
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Le Brésil… at Le Bon Marché…
“Le Brésil”…
Was… buzzing with…
“Inspiration Brésilienne”…
Excitement… Energy…
A… Mardi Gras…
A… Carnaval…
At the Bon Marché exhibition… in Saint Germain…
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Alexander Wang… at Balenciaga…
Alexander Wang…
The… beautiful…
American… designer…
In… Paris…
Can this young… and charming man…
Cut… it…
In the chicest city… on the planet…?
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Giorgio Armani… Italian Legend…
Giorgio… Armani…
An… Italian…
In… Paris…
“A inauguré… le nouveau…
Espace”…
Entering… into…
Armani’s new boutique on…
Avenue Montaigne…
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Dreaming of a White Christmas… à Paris…
The… “big freeze”…
Is on… its way…
Flurries of… snow… hail…
Will be… upon us…
For the foreseeable… near future…
We’re so… hoping… dreaming…
For a… “Noël blanc”…
A very… white…
White… Christmas…
With carriages… in the snow…
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Dreaming of The Snow Capped Mountains… That I Love…
It’s a… rainy…
November… day…
à… Paris…
I’m already… dreaming of a…
Long long… skiing trip…
“Dans un petit village”…
In a little… old village…
Somewhere…
On the… snow capped…
Whiter than white… mountains of France…
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Pre-Christmas… at the Grands Magasins…
Paris… is icy…
Snow is edging… its brilliant whiteness…
In our… direction…
It’s a cold cold European winter… they forecast…
Fur… (“faux”)… is a must…
Wrapped up… like…
Warm… muffins…
We head to the mega-stores… “les grands magasins”…
Le Bon Marché…
Printemps…
Galeries Lafayette…
For pre-Christmas… window-“store”-shopping…
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Sonia Rykiel… No Ordinary Woman…
“I’m not… brave…
I’m not… fantastic…
I’m like… any other woman…
I’m… unhappy…
I’m… difficult… I’m sad…
Am I… strong too…??
Maybe…
But… not always”…
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