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It's OK for intellectual feminists to like fashion
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This blog title comes from Hadley Freeman’s book The Meaning of Sunglasses: “Prada styles itself as the label it’s OK for intellectual feminists to like” The author, Mlle. L, is a bilingual fashion journalist with a serious blog and magazine habit. http://twitter.com/FashionAbecedai fashionmemex@gmail.com Colour palette by Sukro at colourlovers.com
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All the shoes that fit: Avant-Minuit ballerina flats

“I was having champagne with my friends and thought it would be wonderful to have shoes that can easily match any outfit” explains Paris-based Céline Lagabrielle of the inception of her n...

22 may 12

How to use Pinterest if your blog isnt picture-based

Pinterest is a picture-based social network. And despite all the traffic-generating promises it held, my blog is so not picture-based I couldn’t see how to use it. But I signed up because, eh, ...

21 may 12

Ten reasons why the video of Pixar almost deleting Toy Story 2...

Ten reasons why the video of Pixar almost deleting Toy Story 2 resonates with all of us A video of “How Pixar almost deleted Toy Story 2” due to an ill use of rm -r -f * has been making the tech blog...

20 may 12

Model wages as a mark of currency strength

Remember, back in 2007, when Gisele Bündchen demanded to be paid in Euros? At the time, Bloomberg reported that she “insisted that she be paid in almost any currency but the U.S. dollar”,...

16 may 12

Could Valérie Trierweiler be on a Paris Vogue cover? Should she be?

From Hillary Clinton to Michelle Obama, we’ve grown accustomed to seeing American First Ladies pose for US Vogue. No French President spouse however has ever graced the cover of the Paris editi...

14 may 12

Miss X. - From Agent Provocateur to Roger Vivier

If you were a luxury French shoe brand, would you call your latest monogrammed fabric by the name of a British lingerie brand heroin? If you had shod the Queen and Catherine Deneuve, would you dismis...

13 may 12

Classy Film: La Délicatesse demonstrates the French-English review divide

Delicacy, La Délicatesse, the disappointing French movie adaptation of a sweet French novel is out in the UK. Whereas French reviews last December had been enthusiastic to lukewarm, American and Brit...

29 apr 12

Does France need its own Birgitte Nyborg?

Eighteen percent, nearly one in five French woman voted for far right Front National candidate Marine Le Pen at the first round of last Sunday’s French presidential elections. Trying to explain...

28 apr 12

Shouldnt cosmetic containers be smaller?

Hands up if you’ve ever finished a tube of lipstick or mascara before its best by date/you lost it/it broke. Over the past few years, for hygiene reasons, cosmetic brands have started printing ...

24 apr 12

Blogger adventures: Danielle Meder of Final Fashion

Danielle Meder, the Canadian illustrator and fashion theorist behind the blog Final Fashion, tweeted me a year ago to suggest brunch. We met at Aubaine on High-Street Kenand it was the first time I e...

23 apr 12

All the shoes that fit: A tribute to Beatrix Ong

Seeing any fashion business close down is sad. Seeing a 10-year-old shoe business, which had become my go-to brand for size 35 heels, close down, is doubly sad. Beatrix Ong stepped down from her bran...

22 apr 12

Three reasons why France shouldnt raise VAT on luxury products

Rich bashing is à la mode, and nowhere more than in France in the run-up to tomorrow’s presidential elections. Asked about raising VAT on luxury products to 33%, as it was before 1992, front ru...

21 apr 12

Quotes on a Monday: Writers on doubt

Recently, every word I’ve tried putting to paper has been plagued by doubt, which goes a long way in explaining why this blog hasn’t been updated more often. Here is what some of my favou...

16 apr 12

Fashions Lost Girls

In J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, the Lost Boys who found their way to Neverland after falling from their pram and going unclaimed for seven days never grow up, as indicated by the label “boys&...

15 apr 12

Classy Film: What was wrong with a small Lisbeth Salander?

In The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson describes Millennium heroine Lisbeth Salander as measuring 1.52m for 40 kilos (“She still weighed only forty kilos and stood one metre twenty-fou...

07 apr 12

Exhibition review: Queen Elizabeth II by Cecil Beaton

With Queen Elizabeth II by Cecil Beaton, the Victoria & Albert museum put together a one dimensional exhibition which, though charming and enticing, lacks depth. Five sections chronicle the collabora...

11 mar 12

"As I waited, I flicked through a magazine (I’ve inherited Mum’s anxiety about looking..."

“As I waited, I flicked through a magazine (I’ve inherited Mum’s anxiety about looking ‘at a loose end’). It had the next month’s date on the cover and I remembered you laughing at time-travelling fa...

27 feb 12

Floriane de Saint Pierre paves the luxury road to South America

Saint Pierre & Associés, the luxury executives recruitment firm, is to open its next offices in South America, announced president and founder Floriane de Saint Pierre during an interview with intern...

25 feb 12

The end of Mademoiselle, symbolic gesture or societal progress?

If Coco Chanel was still alive today, we’d have to call her Madame Chanel. Or at least French red tape would. After years of debate and lobbying from feminist associations, the French government sign...

24 feb 12

Would you wear H&M on the red carpet?

Last Sunday, Best actress nominee Michelle Williams walked the BAFTA red carpet in a black and white dress, looking as statuesque as an Oscar gong. As was the case for many red carpet goers, the dres...

19 feb 12

Imagine... A snowed-in London Fashion Week

Imagine… Friday 17 February 2012, 9am. The day before, overcome by a wave of snow not witnessed since winter 2009, all London airports shut down, leaving the entire fashion community stranded at JFK ...

12 feb 12

The Arty ring bandwagon

After the lipstick effect, the Yves Saint Laurent Arty ring effect: the economic downturn has seen a joint rise in the sales of cosmetics and rings in the £50-£200 price bracket. Both items allow to ...

11 feb 12

Email marketing: The Kooples renames Valentines day The Kooples Day

The jury for smartest Valentine’s day email of 2012 is still out, but French menswear and womenswear brand The Kooples blasted a strong contender this morning. Happy The Kooples Day it claimed, encou...

09 feb 12

Open letter: Dear ELLE, lets take a break

Dear ELLE, I take to my keypad with a heavy heart to record the end of our decade-old story. Receiving you in the post, unwrapping you has long stopped stirring any feeling in me. Page after page, al...

05 feb 12

Book Review: the November Issue

November book reviews in February, how out of date you might think. This post has been sitting, half-written, in my drafts for the past three months. It wasn’t meant to see the light of day anymore, ...

04 feb 12

What the Academy didnt learn from Woody Allen

There wasn’t any clear-cut Oscar front-runner this year in the vein of last year’s The King’s Speech. Expected nominees, including Tinker, Tailor, Sailor, Soldier, Spy and Drive, barely made the cut....

30 jan 12

Interview translation: Coco Chanel on fame, trousers, creativity and the Moon

Coco Chanel, aged 86, must have been the dream interviewee*. Sometimes after 20 July 1969, she answered journalist and TV presenter Micheline Sandrel’s questions in an organised stream of consciousne...

29 jan 12

Memories of Yves Saint Laurent

This year, on 29 January 2012, the Yves Saint Laurent brand will celebrate its 50th birthday. Fifty years of dressing women (and men), of launching best-seller licensing deals, of building up Yves Sa...

17 jan 12

First person: In praise of stripes

I have twelve striped tee-shirts in my wardrobe, six striped dresses, four striped jumpers, one striped jacket. That’s a total of twenty-three striped garments, enough to open a Petit Bateau shop on ...

14 jan 12

Roksanda Ilincic killed Fawkes

Roksanda Ilincic, best known for her drapés, infused some mythology into her autumn/winter 2011 collection with a Phoenix feather-embellished cropped silk jacket in firey orange. Ilincic named exotic...

06 jan 12

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