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I See Paris, I See France, I See Catherine Deneuve In The Store Window Glass

Catherine Deneuve windows
Retail Remedy: Paris Catherine Deneuve Windows at Le Bon Marché, and Kusama Windows over at Printemps It may be Paris Fashion Week, but there's plenty of Parisian élan off the runways too. Who better than Catherine Deneuve, the most iconic living French cinema legend, to kick off the launch of the 160th birthday of Le Bon Marché. >>READ: How about some French Chic? Catherine Deneuve windows La Deneuve is captured in the store windows with amusing graphic black and white illustrations by Marjane Satrapi. Each scenario is a well-known Paris landmark including Invalides, D’Orsay Museum, Place St. Sulpice, and of course, Le Bon Marché. Le Bon Marché was one of the first department stores in the world and started as a small shop in 1838 until Aristide Boucicaut turned

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Live Stream Maison Martin Margiela – Watch The Spring 2013 Fashion Show From Home!

Straight from Paris Fashion Week: Enjoy the first ever live stream from Maison Martin Margiela on Facebook Friday at 4:30 Paris time & 10:30 EDT Paris calling... Good news chez Margiela as the design team at the helm just recently announced that the Spring 2013 collection will be live streamed this Friday morning -a first for the house. >> MORE: FASHION SHOWS AND RUNWAY REVIEWS For another first, the brand showed their MM6 Martin Margiela spring collection in NY and Sharon has the review. Did we mention that Martin Margiela is one of our all time favorite brands? That what they make often tends to become future classics with the bonus of wearing something fun? >> MARK YOUR CALENDAR: visit Maison Martin Margiela

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Notes from Paris- Parisian Milliner Marie Mercié

Milliner Marie Mercié, Paris
Retail Remedy: From our resident Parisian contributor Richard Nahem comes a visit to milliner Marie Mercié's charming boutique Stephen Sondheim famously begged the question "Does anyone still wear a hat? " in the song "Here's to the Ladies who Lunch " from the musical "Company". If he walked by Marie Mercié's eponymous shop near St. Sulpice, the answer would an emphatic yes! >>MORE: Because you don't need to travel for French-Chic-Style discover our French Style Section Mercié's shop is a wonderland outfitted with ultra-chic feminine hats to feast your eyes on. For her summer 2012 collection (she designs two collections a year)she used straw and raffia and color is king. Vibrant shouts of fuchsia, purple, orange, sunshine yellow, and tomato

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Giorgio Armani Prive Fall 2012 Collection

Giorgio Armani Prive delivered the maestro's signatures a plenty for one classic collection Tailoring with soft, subtle feminine flourishes is the name of the game chez Armani and the designer managed to weave key trends into his latest outing from ombre to color-blocking to pajama dressing, it was all here. >>MORE: Armani In their words: Discover the enchantment of daylight hues – the continuous nuances of color, the playful contrasts between light and shadow. Magical moments of everyday beauty inspire an intense and tempered collection. >>HIGHLIGHTS: Couture Fall 2012 Giorgio Armani Prive Fall 2012 This is a collection, which from daybreak borrows shades of blues, lilacs and mauves, and which announces the coming luminosity of daylight with strokes of purple, paired with black velvet:

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Raf Simons Christian Dior Haute Couture Fall 2012

For Christian Dior Haute Couture Fall 2012 Raf Simons' might not have unveiled the kind of magic that led John Galliano to catapult the storied house back into the stratosphere, but nevertheless, his debut collection certainly caught our eye. And indeed, it is clearly a new day at Dior. From the serenity of the floral filled room to the steadied pace of the models on hand, its clear that at first glance this was a remarkable palette cleanser, albeit a masterfully rendered and conceived one at that. Precise, clean architectural and assured where the first things that came to mind... >>MORE: Runway Coverage Opening with a series of crisp if not sterile tuxedo suiting that was svelte and appropriately glamorous, the

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Maison Martin Margiela Spring 2013 Menswear – Full Collection

Maison Martin Margiela's latest outing for men see's the label's creative team playing with both the classic and the experimental for a slick, subtle winner One of our favorite looks from MMM for Spring 2012 (above), boasts a meticulously crafted coat composed of soda tab pulls paired with an ultra-clean white suit and espadrilles to evoke a casual elegance -and we love it.  >>MORE: Maison Martin Margiela And while the collection fell short on the revolutionary, it did make for an easy one to take in. After all, just look at how easy-cool the well-cast troop of all black models looked in the goods. Martin Margiela Spring 2013 >>EXTRA: Summer Whites need Expert Care Advice! A crisp white suit needs little

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Mugler Resort 2013 Collection Photos

Mugler Resort 2013
Mugler Resort 2013 Back to the future with Mugler Resort 2013 from creative director Nicola Formechetti and designer Sébastien Peigné. >> MORE: Mugler Solid architectural crispness to reinvigorate the label originally designed by Thierry Mugler with a heady injection of futurism via the far east. Mugler Resort 2013 complete collection photo gallery:[nggallery id113]   Photos: Mugler/Frederik Heyman

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Catch the Glory of Original Balenciaga at Cristobal Balenciaga, Collector of Fashions in Paris

Cristobal Balenciaga, Collector of Fashions in Paris
What's hot in Paris? In the city of French Chic, comes an important fashion exhibition in homage to master French couturier Cristobal Balenciaga... the man before the brand as many know it today. A fabulous new exhibit of the couturier Balenciaga's fashions has just opened. The collection is a tribute to mark the 40th anniversary of the death of the master fashion designer. >> MORE: Costume Exhibitions and Styles and more Museums Cristobal Balenciaga, Collector of Fashions in Paris It was generously donated by the family of Balenciaga and celebrates his legacy with forty haute couture coats and dresses from 1937 to 1968 along with 70 costumes and accessories, photographs, sketches, and some art and costume books that influenced him. Cristobal Balenciaga, Collector of Fashions in Paris The

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Home Design Style Inspiration- Easily Add Bursts of Color and Art to an Otherwise Neutral Palette like this Paris Flat

We love to ogle home design style inspiration around here! Nothing like fanciful and fabulous home style pictures to get our creative juices going and the urge to rearrange furniture and art. Now, if Sharon could simply relocate the pool table... It's 2012, are you still surrounded by life in the doldrums of beige box living? If so, take a cue from a grand French restoration recently energized with bold works of art and color galore to make sure your home or workspace isn't just any old bore for an instant home makeover. You may not be able to get the details, but you certainly can be inspired to get the look! >> Listen: Need some color chic? This is how Sharon

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White Drama Paris: Comme des Garcons Spring Favors Blow-Up Domes Over A Fashion Show

Comme des Garçons White Drama
Comme des Garçons White Drama Always a designer to go against the grain of traditional fashion and fashion shows, Rei Kawakubo has done it once again with her new Comme des Garcons spring 2012 collection, White Drama. Comme des Garçons White Drama Instead of having a runway show, she has decided to present her spring/summer collection as an installation in clear plastic blowup domes with quasi-monochrome mannequins in which she dramatizes life's important events: birth, marriage, death, and transcendence. MORE: FASHION SHOWS AND RUNWAY REVIEWS Comme des Garçons White Drama White Drama is about pure, ceremonial whiteness in every hue. Some of Kawakubo's influences for this season are budding flowers, lace insets inspired by christening robes, an obi-bow belt, Holy Week processions in Seville, and layered handkerchiefs. MORE: White Comme des Garçons

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Revisit Best of Paris Fashion Week- Balenciaga, Carven, Celine, Limi Feu, Rochas – Spring 2012

Now that the month-long block of consecutive international fashion show's has come to an end, here's a look at our favorites from Paris, the city of light and superior design(in our minds). From Balenciaga's thoroughly modern take on 60's futurism to Limi Feu's wearable avant-garde goods, there was plenty of high-style propositions for everyone. MORE: FASHION SHOWS AND RUNWAY REVIEWS Balenciaga (and above) After 10 years of riveting, out-of-this-world collections season in & season out, Nicolas Ghesquiere was back with another astounding sci-fi take on 60's futurism mashed with the rigor and depth of Cristobal Balenciaga's couture minded trapeze shapes. Paired with his sense of futurism, his continual references to the house's heritage have made his latest collections enviable winners. Opening with a selection of chic foamy color-blocked

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Revisit: The Best of Haute Couture Spring 2012 to Keep You Dreaming

While the number of shows continues to shrink from season to season, the recent Haute Couture shows for Spring 2012 rigorously continued on with the regal, other-worldly appeal that couture has always made feel so ultimately exclusive. >>MORE: FASHION SHOWS AND RUNWAY REVIEWSAnd although a new guard is slowly joining the ranks with collections that veer a tad bit too much towards the unnecessarily dramatic, there were a handful of top shows that offered thoroughly modern and gloriously conceived options for the elite princesses and glamor girls of the world and for us simple dreamers alike. Christian Dior- What a difference a few seasons of directing ready-to-wear for Christian Dior has made for Bill Gaytten as his second couture outing for Dior was a

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French Chic at a Certain Age: A well-cut trench coat a la Patricia Kaas

Patricia Kaas
Let's be frank: There comes a time when fussy becomes unfashionably fatiguing and plain is boringly aging. >> Day Two of the three-part FoS series Age-Approriate French Chic At A Certain Age But, pairing a well-cut trench coat and sultry smokey lined eyes, is a time-tested fashion recipe that never spoils! Take, for instance, French actress and chanteuse Patricia Kaas who understands the understated elegance of a lightweight, well-cut trench coat- a hallmark in dressing with French chic style. It's not any ordinary trench, but one that wraps in a way that always creates a sexy silhouette without being vulgar or tricked up. It's flow is more dressed up than the basic double-breasted trench coat, yet it's not overwhelming on her frame. The

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