Un Jour à Paris

What I did yesterday - another gorgeous day in Paris!
I'm off to see an expo of watercolors by sketchbook artist par excellance, Fabrice Moireau from his new book Toits de Paris on 5, rue St.-Romaine 75006 at his publishers.
 Exquisite views in shades of Paris greys.
You come out and automatically look 👁️ up to those rooftops.

Then 👁️ down at the cerises everywhere in the marche

 A bit further up rue de Sevres I'm in the irresistable Le Grand Epicerie. I trail after un homme in a cerise red jacket

I pick out a 'designer' box lunch of cerise tomatoes for a snack - a layered affair like a verrine.

Back in the Metro to Sonia's expo in St. Germain. In Le Hune's vitrine this red poster makes me pause. Should I start doing leg circles right here in the street? It couldn't hurt.

Cafe de Flore across the street. Jam packed, every square inch of pavement

I stop at the Cafe de Flore shop, which for once is open.

Naturalment the credit card machine won't take my card so I just buy this packet of cafe magnets and run 🏃‍♀️ 

At 15,rue Saint-Benoit to la galerie Catherine Houard of Sonia Rykiel  - 2 floors of croqui sketches.

Back into the Metro for a tiny trip to l'Isle St-Louis to pick up a tiny dolls house silver tray at L'Ile Flottante

I check if La Charlotte de L'Isle is open. Not. Only on Thursdays - Sundays. Closed forever😥

Another Metro to an expo of architecture + bande dessine -BD/comic books at Cité de la l’Architecture.

The exhibition covers New York, Paris, Tokyo and the evolution of comic books through various cities and their relationship to architecture

 Videos, giant sketchbook blowups, interactive demos where you can turn the pages. Altogether a brilliant display of great drawings

 Incomparable city views tied in with cultural aspects...Just Go!

Time for some R & R again

Out comes the silver tray I bought on Isle St-Louis to shoot some still life setups. Plus a gouter of macarons + a tisane de fleurs d'oranger

At last I head home to collapse with a stop in Printemps - displays girls walking dogs. It reminds me of Sonia Rykiel's doodle of dog walkers.

BONJOUR A DAY IN PARIS!

Paris Greys

Staying with Paris fashion for another moment,

I felt I have to tell you that GREY is the color for Fall.

Audrey Hepburn is always all over Paris in many forms, but this is an innovative version in these grey handbags..non?

You wouldn't think grey rubber rain boots would be a fashion statement but you'd be wrong in Paris...

Grey flannel flats will do very nicely too... The windows at HELLO KITTY were full of grey... HELLO KITTY! Are you kidding me? Hey! do not turn up your nose. This shop is on Place Vandome down from THE RITZ. I admit I was a bit surprised too...ahem The layered look toute en grisIt's all over this town up the whazoo. The KEY accessory is a metalic leather bag/sac...Note this gold number with the grey stripped scarf flung over it...
Just stitch on a few odd buttons (grey of course) and you've got a fashion statement par excellance. Or you could mix your metalics...plenty of flats are still out there. Should I buy this one? Pas cher either - maybe 45 or 65 Euros. I forget which. I also forget where I took this picture :(This was the piece de resistance of my GREY research and a "stolen shot" on the Metro too! A bag made entirely of pop can openers!
Tres chic non?
I had Sunday tea with another blogger at Dalloyau.
She's lived in Paris a few years, put forth an interesting point:
Americans come to Paris and desperately want to dress like the French. And Americans desperately want to pass as French. I was of course, wearing my correctly knotted French scarf + a ton of grey/gris, while she was wearing a white cable knit V-neck "tennis" sweater = very AMERICAN! Naturally the whole world wants to dress "FRENCH" but what do you think of this phenomenon?