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four girls, two furs and a brancusi necklace (opens the original)
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In my 20s, there used to be a column on Vogue.com called “5 Days, 5 Looks, 1 Girl.” It started with staffers, and then spread to other tastemakers. Unsurprisingly, there are a number of Substack writers who appeared in the column, their outfits as envy-inducing then as they are now, including (in jeans, naturally), and . It was a precursor to Instag
the “avoid the americans” paris restaurant guide (opens the original)
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When friends come to visit and want restaurant suggestions, my first question is what kind of Paris will they want? Like many cities, Paris is a hall of mirrors; it reflects back what you’re searching for.Most of the time, the Americans want a very specific type of Paris. The glamorous amber lighting of a large brasserie, where prices rival Manhattan. A place where the bartender can make a decent cocktail (this is not most of Paris), the crowd skews “international” and you run into your neighbor
would you rather, fashion edition: eccentric or polished? (opens the original)
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Rothy's is celebrating turning ten this year, and in partnership with them, they asked me to write an essay on how my own point of view has evolved.There’s a woman I see often, who likes to sit alone at the cafe on the corner of Rue du Varenne and smoke cigarettes on Sunday mornings. I would guess that she’s in her 50s, and she has the wavy, unkept hair of a Parisian who has never owned a hairbrush. She has a cat on a leash, a chocolate gamine who smirks at me in my workout clothes. The woman is
who do you want to be this fall? (opens the original)
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We are in the week of the post summer debrief. The bright, cheery “Oh, but how was your summer?” exchanged at dinners and drop offs, while my mind reels with the thought of a summer wasted. Not wasted, exactly, but not much to show for.Not like the summer I spent in Austria when I was sixteen and came back with a belly button ring, which I successfully hid from my parents for all of three weeks. The ones in my early 30s that I spent on “goop-cation,” when GP would give the whole company two week
are you a deco darling? (opens the original)
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It was the fourth day of Paris design week, not the balmy September version, where spirits are high and you arrive at cocktails at the De Gournay apartment by bicycle, a little tipsy when you leave for the next engagement. This was in the frigid air of January, and we were wrapped in fur, hoping for a sighting of finding gems at Les Puces . I always love to see what catches her eye on instagram. Sometimes there are things I’ve drooled over, but my favorites are the ones I
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