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the pool house

Karl Lagerfeld’s studio as seen from the pool house. Complete with pool boy.

alice in paris

Joëlle sent me these pictures of the Printemps, which are currently lighting up Boulevard Haussmann. The department store gave their top designers license to design their own Alice in Wonderland-themed dresses to tie in to the launch of Tim Burton’s movie. Clockwise from top, Nicholas Kirkwood, Alexander McQueen, Chloé, Alexander McQueen, Manish Arora – click for larger image. Those rabbit-heads are totally tripping me out. McQueen’s dress is actually my favorite, because it truly looks like what Alice would wear after kicking the Red Queen’s ass and ripping the dress off of her body.

What I am really curious to see is the pop-up tearoom inside Printemps done in collaboration with Ladurée… that is a (tea) party I would like to crash!

paris update

T – 12

naked nails

1. uslu airlines / ROR airai palau : über-modern nude, located by Joëlle (must be the umlaut) at Colette, and definitely the coolest of the cool

2. essie / mink muffs : an elegant, soft taupe that goes with everything

3. nars / bohemia : a pretty pale pink with a touch of (surprise) green shimmer

4. chanel / jade rose : i’m not ready to embrace the ever-so-trendy jade yet, so this will have to do for now

5.essie / chinchilly : only my favorite polish name ever. chinchilly chinchilly chinchilly

6. rescue beauty lounge / opaque nude : “there are pink girls and there are natural girls and in between are wildly sophisticated girls with perfectly oval buff-colored nails who never have a bad hair day”

joli matin aux tuileries

I love waking up to emails from my boyfriend’s fabulous mother, Joëlle. I have been wanting to do a profile on her (she is an interior architect) but I will have to wait until I go to Paris in December. In the meantime she sends me pictures from her iphone that look as if she took them with a Hasselblad. She has an amazing eye – for design, furniture, fabrics, clothes, and just for life in general – and she always seems to make the most quotidian things seem extraordinarily significant. Love her.