Les Danseurs 💃 Update Opening Ceremony 🎉

I went out to pay my Free Mobile bill…and to catch some real live tourists. I found them immediately rolling their suitcases 🧳 looking weary & jetlaged.

Evidently the expected 11,000,000 Olympic guests are arriving today! These two (from España?) are devouring FOUR pastries from PAUL...hmm

bleu, blanc & rouge 🇫🇷

I walked into BHV Marais & there was today’s post 🇫🇷 

I’ve been looking for signs. Olympics signs everywhere. These tartes are from Galeries Lafayette Gourmet. And unintentionally patriotic 🤷‍♀️

Think Pink, a new Audrey Letter

On Friday I went into BHV depart. store for ribbons and perfume cards. I was confronted with a ton of pink. 

Even Mariage Frères has gone pink with their packaging and teapots!

Passing through the women’s clothing floor…more pink for Fall! What’s going on? 

Naturally I don't own anything in pink but I better get on it.

Givenchy has a special collection of mood perfumes & they are all pink. Titles: trouble-Fête · Sans Artifice · Peur de Rien · Oiseau Rare · Indompté · Sans Merci · Garçon Manqué. 

Pink is no longer just for little girls. 

Guys are wearing plenty of pink.

In the metro station - pink ads. 

I was on my way to the art store. I bought some Opera pink of course.

Not just Funny Face is mad for pink. Why pink? Pink is a calming color associated with love, kindness, and femininity. People immediately associate the color with all things feminine and girly. Some shades of pale pink are described as relaxing, while very bright, vibrant shades can be stimulating or even aggravating.

Audrey Hepburn said she ‘believed in pink’. I think she was on to something. 

I got inspired to paint a new pink Audrey single letter, 

Dolce & Gabbana just showed this OTT pink gown in Venice. I’m going to order shortly 

☺️💕🐻💋 Stay in the pink dear PBers🙏❤️ 

Paris Pinks

Almost all these pics were shot today so maybe we can say Spring has sprung?

Waiting to cross the street at Metro La Muette in the 16th a bevy of 'ados'/adolescents 

Shot yesterday at the Victor et Hugo stand in Printemps department store..

You need greens to make your pinks stand out - pretty Muguets along rue des Archives in the Marais

Pinkie-coralie raw silk scarf in BHV. The guard is about to tackle me but gives up. Must be Spring Fever...

Giant PINK rose lollipop inside BHV.

Little French girls in pink ballerinas on the Champs-Élysées last week..

The same day 365 Dresses and I broke down and got ice cream cones at Haagen-Dazs (Mango Framboise). It was hot!

Today not so hot. People are still wearing coats. Leche-vitrine in action.

At chocolatier Mazet. Only in Paris do people try to walk through glass with such..intensity. Well that's what I think.

A beautiful Spring fraisier at Patisserie Pain de Sucre 14, rue Rambuteau.

Macaron earrings in all flavors at Le Paris Gourmands 15, rue des Archives.

Kwanzen cherry blossoms full-blown last week at Square Marie Trintignant 75004 You can find every garden and square in Paris (and Lyon) with CityGardens app (free).

BONNE WEEKEND PBers!

Lolita Tea Party @ FIT

Yesterday I went to the JAPAN FASHION NOW show at the Fashion Institute of Technology(FIT).

Comme de Garcons pink gingham skirt
This is one fabulous, huge exhibit of Japanese clothing design from the '70s till now on through January 8, 2011.
I was in Tokyo for 6 weeks in the '80's on a Parsons' graphic design program led by CBS Art Director, John Berg and the memories came flooding back. The dollar was good in those days. Comme De Garcons had navy blue trucks daily delivering new merch to the department stores and I was there (instead of in class) to grab it - I bought a ton of stuff, most I gave away. It was impossible to figure out how to put it on. We got invited to an Issey Myaki sale and given garbage bags! to fill up - I bought a red bus conductor's belt with attached purse - I wonder whose wearing it now..?Current fashion trends called 'Cosplay' include "a kind of role play involving dressing up as characters from popular manga (comic books), anime (animated films), computer/video games" or as The New York Times mentioned,"a bizarre pastiche of Central European folkloric costume pieces." The WSJ has a video on the 'Hime' or princess style. Thanks TamiElegant & Gothic Lolita styles are represented in depth. With lifelike Volk dolls in matching outfits... Later there was a Lolita Tea party. Oh why did I leave my Sonia hairbow at home?
Hints of Alice

And Marie-Antoinette are part of the Lolita look.

Wear your cupcakes.

Or eat them.

Cat cookies for the cat fanciers.

And macarons bien sur!

Please wear pink shoes with your macaron skirt...

Bags with bows=essential

There's a dark side to this sweet Lolita subculture - like the Simpson's 'Itchy and Scratchy' - it's not all sugar and pink marshmallows. Character cats, Hangry & Angry creator, Gashicon, was there for a discussion with the show's fashion historian and curator, Valerie Steele pre-tea party to tell all.

A tea party attendee decked out in all the accoutrements - these outfits are elaborate and expensive...

If you're in New York, do NOT MISS the Japan Fashion Now show and there are lots more related events to attend.

BONJOUR LOLITAS!

Thinking PInk even if it is Fall!

I know we're all getting out our black, beige and neutrals for Fall, but when I saw this pink Eiffel Tower at The Selby I starting thinking PINK!!!
Do you subscribe to The Selby for a vicarious look inside some divine homes?

These Selby shots are all from Paris designer and top Chanel model, Ines Fressange's FAB pink apartment...swoon

Paris pinks, original art, 9" x 11"

Can you think of another town where pink is so prevalent as Paris?

Here an entire shop in pink. Why were they closed?

ouvert tous les jours, sauf le mardi, jusqu’à 19H30

Pink writing on the wall!
Only in Paris...
Of course there has to be pink perfumes in the town where they say "La vie en rose (pink)" after saying "C'est la vie.."
Jeff Koon's pink hound could not be more at home here...

Shocking pink walls at Musee Nissim Camondo are not so shocking...
Very pale pink framboises macarons at Patisserie Stohrer...

And some very nice pink jambon too....

And just across the rue on Montorgueil, more pink pig at patisserie Maison Collet.

For Xmas, Galerie Lafayette's windows were full of P I N K!

Do take your chaises roses s.v.p....

Note how the guests are looking out the window at the viewers. Ha!

Guess who isn't ready to face the realite of Fall!?
Paris pinks.
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Bonjour Pink!