This is the great thing about celebrities and this why media love them so much. There is always news. On French radio, Vanessa Paradis is reassuring us. She still loves her Johnny!
http://fr.news.yahoo.com/vanessa-paradis-rumeur-fausse-085700690.html
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What is bothering me this morning? Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis are officially separated. I know it sounds really dumb as four Frenchmen have been killed in Afghanistan and so many more on the planet at this precise minute. Yes, well, at least I am being true to a part of myself, my “midinette” soul, the French and personal version of “People” icon on yahoo for the masses. They were both beautiful and had been together for 14 years living in a quiet French village. All of this is already quite romantic. Moreover they personnified a certain vision of fashion I like, fashion as a way to transform yourself, to reinvent your day to day life. Brands might help, but it is not only about brands or designers, it is about imagination and creativity. The idea that the duo will not play the game any longer, just kills me…I looked up to them for fantasies and stories, pirated avdentures obvioulsy, but may more. Just see
The Roaring 20′s
La Dolce Vita
Vintage 70′s
The siren and the pirat
I will miss them!
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The Lady,the latest feature film by Luc Besson (Subway, The Big Blue, Nikita) on Aung San Suu Kyi will be released very soon in America.
I was able to see the film in a preview in New York ( the film was released in France last october) and really liked the movie. Sentimental: yes; Biased: yes; superficial: sometimes, yes. But Michelle Yeoh is amazing and the filming (the film was shot in Thailand) is “Bessonesque”, overwhelming. Luc Besson and his wife, Virginie Silla-Besson, the producer, have put so much time and research in this epic. It really shows.
The timing is of course exhilarating with Burma opening up to the world, Hillary Clinton visiting The Lady, and all this suffering and pain coming to a radiant end.
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What I am looking forward to in the weeks to come
- Reviews on David Hockney ‘David Hockney: A Bigger Picture’ at the London Royal Academy of Arts, and a ticket please!
- NY Fashion week from Feb 9-16 for next Fall 2012. Colors and pretty shoes, please!
- Jean-Philippe Delhomme at FIAF Gallery Dressed for Art opening on Tuesday, February 28. Can’t wait to see his brilliant caricatures. An original please!
- The March issue of Newsweek by Tina Brown, a special Madmen and Sixties issue. The magazine please!
- Jean Paul Gaultier at the gala of the Lycee français, March 17. An autograph please!
Anything else important I forgot?…. non bonuses, bitter cold, winter forever, no more AAA for France, a failing euros, a mormon candidate… cannot think of anything else really important
And you?
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The original song just for fun and for the beauty of Catherine Deneuve
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Gainsbourg is in the air
A month ago Jane Birkin sung at Town Hall. She opened her immense heart to the public, to those who suffer in Japan where she found the extraordinary musicians noticeably a woman who played violon and tore your soul in little pieces. She opened her arms and we all fell into them wanting a bit more of her crystal clear voice unchanged by the years, a bit more of this nostalgia that has inspired Gainsbourg all through his life and comes forth in his song lyrics, a bit more of Jane B. la Petite Anglaise who reminds us of the Sixties, of the Seventies, of freer times when Les Dessous Chics were still the stuff fantasies are woven in and not yet another brand.
Last night it was Zaz at Webster Hall at Global Fest with Les Petits riens. Great!
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Cedric Klapisch made many films we cannot forget including Paris with Juliette Binoche and Romain Duris, Pot Luck or The Spanish Apartment or the Russian Dolls. His most recent film A Slice of the Pie is being shown in New York at the IFC Center. It all started in 2008 when the financial crisis revealed what Occupy Wall Street coined “the 1%.” In Klapisch’s movie the life a successful Fund Manager crosses the existence of a plant worker from Dunkirk representing the remaining 99%. Introducing his movie the other night at the IFC cinema, the director said: “The crisis revealed that in our world there are people who share and people who eat”. The film opens with a simple but very warm birthday party where the pie in the underprivileged family is cut in so many parts that nothing is left to eat. Karine Viard – Klapisch has known her for the last 20 years – is an extraordinary ordinary woman. The film is entertaining, at times really funny, beautifully filmed and portrays well the cohabitation of two worlds which when they collide bring violence and death..
http://www.ifcfilms.com/videos/my-piece-of-the-pie-trailer<a
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Not to be missed at the Hermes store on Madison in New York, on the top floor, until November 3rd, is the presentation of the Petit H collection, unique objects by designers made from recycled fabrics from Hermes.
Pascale Mussard, heiress to the family and former creative director of Hermes, had this wonderfully creative idea to use discarded tidbits of silk from the “carrés”, of leather from the saddles or bags, or glass from Cristalleries de Saint Louis, and offer designers like Christian Astuguevieille to create an original design. The result is a collection of one of kind items, all very beautiful, some totally useless, many to die for. Leather bracelets, and beautiful glass jewelry, a toy car paneled with shiny blue crocodile skin. For Guillaume de Seynes, Director of Hermes, this collection on view ( and for sale) for a limited time is very symbolic of Hermes itself : Craftsmen and designers have been working together to come up with this Petit H concept. The collection has been shown in Paris, in Tokyo and now in New York, saluted in the Press and welcomed by shoppers. The price tag is also Hermes style : $600 for a leather bracelet, $1000 and up for necklaces. But remember it is Unique,Genuine and Hermes. UGH!
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Why is it that my rarefied posts come in with sad news? A slight depression or what? Well, today it is Loulou de la Falaise who passed away at 63. How sad is that?
I was lucky enough to have met her a few times. Her life was “matière à roman”, stuff that novels are written with…. Behind Loulou was of course Yves Saint Laurent, the great man she met in 1968. Is this not a moment in time you would have liked to be part of? A tea organized for Loulou with Monsieur Saint Laurent by stylist and friend, Fernando Sanchez! 
Four years later Loulou was hired by La maison Saint Laurent, becoming the official (can that be?) muse of the French couturier.
I remember being a young journalist in Paris in the mid-80′s, already a fashionista, invited to the Soldes Presse of Yves Saint Laurent. It was hysterical! By invitation only… yet the queue started at 8am in the morning and lasted close to 2 hours.. We were then ushered into this warehouse in the 7th arrondissement, filled with boxes, filled with Saint Laurent items! It was a dream.. and the price tags were minus 70%! And it was Haute Couture!. We bought all we could ripping off sweaters and pants from each other. I do have a ripped pant left…
Then Yves Saint Laurent retired, and we were thrown in a land in fallow in our heart… and in our wardrobe. No one seemed to fill the gap for elegant, feminine, yet sexy, and daring clothes. We had to support the ostentatious eccentricities of Tom Ford and become Material Girls with Jean-Paul Gaultier, but we missed being simply Parisian with YSL.Then came in Loulou with her own line in 2002. It was a feminine version of Saint Laurent: well cut jackets and suits, colorful liberty prints and oh! So beautiful jewelry… At generous press discounts, I did buy quite a few items. Loulou was always there in her beautiful shop on rue de Bourgogne, ravishingly elegant, and smiling. It did not hurt that she was married to Thadée Klossowski de Rola, Balthus’s son, another legendary character. 
Loulou de la Falaise was a symbol of style, French wit. She WAS French fashion. She was beauty and beauty surrounded her. I will miss knowing she is not somewhere on this earth.
And clenching your fist for the ones like us
Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty,
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We all want to have a Black and White photo on our screen…. so sad!
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