We sat behind Madame Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and a princess.
Sunday, July 8, 2007
Celebrating July 4 en France
No fireworks for us, just lots of runway flash. The Elie Saab show was all silver and platinum and spectacular. We watched torrents of mercurical rain flash in and out of the brilliant sun in the Marais while we waited for the show to start across the street and dined on the quintessential French dejeuner-quiche, salad and a glass of wine.
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Our patron at Lacroix has his hands full
Franck Duquenne is trying to coral the peanut gallery packed with paparazzi.
Look who's here, too!
Lenny and Tamara -- Houston's finest fashion show producers, also at Lacroix for the spectacle.
We were lucky
There were even invitation to Lacroix for the Space Available Standing Room only and not everyone made it in.
Between Shows
Of course I had to show Cathy my favorite--Scarlett! Ok, don't think of what we spent, but what we SAVED!!!
45 models sloshed through the rain
The clothes were lovely, even when wet. Does this mean they don't have to be dry cleaned?
In Our Box
A big time pop star from China, so the paparazzi flocked to her, of course they caught us, too. We will bein every newspaper in Asia.
I think someone is following us
The traffic wasnt as bad as we thought it might be, even though the Chanel show was in Parc Saint-Clooud, so we ducked into Jean Baptiste for a quick bite and a coffee. Who follows us in but Anna Wintour herself. Her assistant was particularly haughty and apparently did not appreciate Roger blocking her way as he was protecting us with his umbrella. We smiled in our most benign fashion.
Then back into the melee for L'Orangerie.
Menu Degustation
les saveurs de Flora . . . a study in pink. We started with rose of course and actually thought we could make it through seven courses despite potential jet lagging. Sure enough we had to skip one -- who cut the cheese? Stuffed like the guinea fowl that was our 5th course, we rollled out at 11 p.m. A short 3 hour meal. Dont miss this incredible retaurant at 36, Avenue George V!
If it's Monday . . .
For a while, I thought I would never even GET to Paris, sincemy flight out of Newark was delayed for over 6 hours with a mechanical but finally at 2:00 in the afternoon on Monday I walked into Lavoisier (not the sort of hotel a haute couture client would stay in) to find Cathy there and waiting. We hit the streets immediately to get a bite.
Place du La Madeleine our destination and a sidewalk table at Le Colibri. Chin Chin!
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