The most exclusive fashion week in the world is Paris Haute Couture Week, it takes fashion and her craft to a whole new level. One of the most magical shows on the calendar is On Aura Tout Vu. This season’s theme was the “Cosmic Beetle” and afterwards we partied at the VIP club on Rue [...]
Tags: Anna au pied de montmartre, Anna Barr, De Camille, Eclectic Society, Fashion Week Party, Haute Couture, On Aura Tout Vu, Paris Fashion Week, spring summer 2013, VIP
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Straight from the streets of Paris via Anna aud Pieds de Montmartre Rachel Zoe and Anna Dello Russo Anna Dello Russo
Tags: Anna aux Pieds de Montmartre, Anna Della Russo, De Camille, Eclectic Society, Paris Fashion Week, Rachel Zoe
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I have something for 60′s movies and France, so you can only imagine how much I laughed at a recent viewing of the 1969 film Mr.Freedom. American expatriate and former Vogue photographer from 1955 to 1965 William Klein abandoned photography to focus on film. With an eye for fashion and strong aesthetic, he captures bold [...]
Tags: Anna Barr, De Camille, France, Mr Freedom
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One of my favorite shows to cover in recent seasons in Paris is Manish Arora. This season he stage his new aw12 collection at Les Docks, the uber trendy new fashion scene in East Paris. Arora’s collection drew on iconography from Brooklyn-based street artist and collagist Judith Supine. Along with his street art, Supine cuts [...]
Tags: collagist Judith Supine, fashion, feathers, leaves, Les Docks, Manish Arora, Paris, suede
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One of my good friend’s Iveta Karpathyova, recently relocated from Paris to Montreal, and Paris just isn’t the same. Her beauty and fashion illustrations have appeared in Lush, Glossy, Pulp, Vive and Z-Life Magazine. Usually characterized for their dramatic pastel palette that slides to a romantic intimacy with soft water colors, she sent me her [...]
Tags: fashion Illustration, Montreal, Paris
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I was recently in London, covering fashion week for the upcoming Eclectic Society and was taken away by Croatian born designer Morana Kranjec who presented her complex 3D paper origami techniques combining fashion and art at the Vauxhall Fashion Scout exhibition alongside one of my favorite Danish designer Anne Sofie Madesen, Phoebe English, and Prose, [...]
Tags: 3D paper origami techniques, Anna au Pieds De Montmartre pour De Camille, art, Croatian designer, Danish designer Anne Sofie Madesen, Eclectic Society, fashion, London, London Fashion Week, Morana Kranjec, Origami Armor, paper art installations, Paper Cut Project, Paris, Phoebe English, Prose, Vauxhall Fashion Scout exhibition, Vogue Italia December 2011
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Between Milan and Men’s Week in Paris, I was kept busy this year at Berlin Fashion week. The highlight of the weeks was the Hugo Boss show at the Staatliche Musuem. The collection headed by Eyan Allen for womenswear and Bart De Backer for menswear, was made up of clean and reductive silhouettes, keeping [...]
Tags: Anna Barr, Bart De Backer, Berlin Fashion Week, Eyan Allen, Hugo Boss, luxurious, menswear, Men’s Week, Milan, minimalistic, Paris, Staaliche Museum
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I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Russian photographer, Paris transplant Mila Nesterova, her work as been featured in, Russian Vogue and Grazia. Recently, she held her Bioluminescene Exhibition at The Book Club in London. The thing that attracted me to her work is that I’m so used to seeing fashion photographers who are instructed to [...]
Tags: Anna au pied de montmartre, Bioluminescene Exhibition, De Camille, glowing techniques, Grazia, illuminating fashions, light, light painting, London, Mila Nesterova, painter, Russian Vogue, The Book Club
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A Tribute to One of The Last Dandies of France This year marks the twentieth anniversary since music lost one of its greatest singer songwriters. Parisian Serge Gainsbourg died the 2nd March 1991, but he has been anything but forgotten. Tributes have been flooding in since last year with the release of the biopic Gainsbourg [...]
Tags: 2nd March 1991, Anna, Apollinaire, at, au, Baudelaire, Birkin, Bowl, Brigitte Bardo, Brigitte Bardot, Butte de Monmartre, Camille, Dandies, de, France Gall, François Mitterrand, Françoise Hardy, French music, Hollywood, Jane, Jane Birkin, jazz, kitsch pop, Laetitia Casta, montmartre, Paris, ParisHistoire de Melody Nelson, Parisian, pied, Serge Gainsbourg, the, Vanessa Paradis, Vie héroïque, www.chantefrance.com
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Dear Mr.West, In response to negative criticism regarding your runway debut in Paris, I would like to offer my unwanted feedback. First of all congratulations on showing your collection in Paris. In my opinion, others wouldn’t dare to debut here (that’s you Beckham and Stefani). As trends begin Paris and end in New York you [...]
Tags: Champs Syndicale de Haute Couture, Church Ladies, fashion, fashion show, Milan Catwalk, New York, Paris, Premier VIsion, Rick Owens, Victoria Beckham, Zach Posen.Revolutionary Silver
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Daring French Screen Queens de Anna au Pied de Montmartre French “It Girl” Charlotte Gainsbourg, currently the face of Balenciaga Parfum, has been busy shooting “The Confession of a Child of the Century” with Pete Doherty, based upon Alfred de Musset’s novel, in Paris and the Rhone-Alps. I love learning about current projects as [...]
Tags: Alfred de Musset’s novel, Antichrist, Balenciaga, Cannes Film Festival, Charlotte Gaisbourg, David Cronenberg, French Screen Queens, Isabelle Adjani, Pete Doherty, Possession, The Confession of a Child of the Century
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ORLAN the Influence Behind Lady Gaga’s Born this Way? In February Lady Gaga first stepped out with what the press was calling “bizarre flesh-coloured facial horns”, no shock or surprise here as many people in my Parisian circle immediately were reminded of French artist ORLAN. I thought this would be a great time to [...]
Tags: facial horns, Lady Gaga, Orlan, performance art
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Northern Neighbor The US has Canada, and France has Belgium. It is not easy having a loud arrogant neighbor and I wanted to make an ode to our northern neighbor. Like Canada, there is a French speaking minority. Unlike France, where 30% of the music on the radio must include French, Brussels’ metro has put [...]
Quintessence Room of Scents I spent Independence Day in a typical Parisian fashion, at a perfume launch. For the first day of Haute Couture week, author of Chic in Paris and number one fashion tweeter Susan Tabak, launched her first scent Sortir le Soir. Everyone from Diane Pernet to Jim Goldstein showed up. For [...]
The Art of French Cinema French cinema over the past decade tends to fall in three categories: Portraits, Social Chronicles, and Horror. The latter they pretend does not exist and ironically enough, in recent years they are leading the way in a new wave of French horror films. Not only have several directors gone to [...]
The Night Porter Shift Marc Jacobs recently received raved reviews for his Autumn 2011 collection in Paris for Louis Vuitton. He even managed to coax Kate Moss back onto the runway, taking time away from busy nuptial plans (rumored to be in Paris). His collection was themed “Night Porter”, influenced by Liliana Cavani’s 1974 [...]
Tags: Autumn 2011 Louis Vuitton collection, Charlotte Rampling, coats, iliana Cavani’s 1974 film, Kate Moss, Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, Night Porter Shift, Paris, porter hats, sex
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