Posts tagged Paris

May 9, 2011

Madame Grès, Fashion Legend

Madame Grès: Couture at Work at the Musée Bourdelle in Paris, through July 24. “I wanted to be a sculptor — for me it is just the same to work with fabric or stone.” – Madame Grès The show is comprised of 80 couture pieces, including creations for the Duchess of Orleans and the Duchess [...]

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March 16, 2011

YSL Rive Gauche: Looking Back at a Fashion Revolution

The Fondation Pierre Bergé in Paris presents the long-awaited retrospective of Yves Saint Laurent’s ready-to-wear revolution, the Rive Gauche label. Saint Laurent rive gauche: La révolution de la mode Imagine a time when women weren’t allowed to wear trousers in any kind of formal setting, even the workplace, where fashion was a domain strictly reserved [...]

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February 10, 2011

90′s Fashion, Then and Now…

Brush up on your fashion history, just in time for Fashion Week… Tom Ford for Gucci, Autumn/Winter 1996 We believe that it’s more than coincidence that ’90s styles are trendy again. Just as the longer skirts and grunge spirit were in reaction to the glitzy, flashy looks and ultra short skirts of the 1980s, they [...]

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December 17, 2010

A match made in heaven: Gossip Girls at Ladurée

Be a Gossip Girl! It may be easier than you think to be taken for one of the Gossip Girls, whether you’re a Blair or a Serena, as seen on the hit television series! To pull it off, all you have to do put together your chicest ensemble for teatime at… Ladurée! The proof is [...]

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July 15, 2010

Spend a night in a room decorated by… Christian Lacroix!

A little while ago designer Christian Lacroix chose to move his focus from models to a somewhat different activity: decorating a Parisian hotel. The hotel is one “Hotel du Petit Moulin” which happens to be in one of the trendiest neighbourhoods in Paris: Le Marais. The hotel if located in an 18th century which has [...]

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