Posts Tagged as ‘Paris’

October 11, 2008

The Fashion Canteen

I found this brilliant article about Davé on guardian.co.uk:

Welcome to the fashion canteen
No menu, no prices – and no nobodies. Davé is the fashion world’s best-kept secret but if you can get past the ‘full’ sign on the door and secure a top table in this tiny Chinese restaurant in Paris, you can be sure [...]

October 10, 2008

Dinner at Davé

The gate which offers a shortcut between the Rue de Montpensier and Rue de Richelieu was closed so we walked the long way round, meeting up with Caroline and Giuseppe from Anya Hindmarch along the way. Despite the crisps we had devoured, we were still starving and dying to finally have dinner. Be also appeared [...]

October 10, 2008

Putting on the Ritz

The amazing British model Erin O’Connor was standing outside The Ritz on the Place Vendome as I wandered towards the door. I was a good bit early for my meeting with SJ and Caroline from Anya Hindmarch, who had invited me out for dinner and drinks after finishing work, but I already had an idea [...]

October 7, 2008

Morning-after party

I caught up with Tara the next day for a (late) brunch instead at Angelina, the legendary tea shop on the Rue du Rivoli. The house specialties are the hot chocolate and the Mont Blanc pastries – to die for! It seemed that Tara was not the only guest at the Alexander McQueen after-show party [...]

October 7, 2008

Paris – Take Two

Models were everywhere when I arrived in Paris as well – one girl I spotted on the Metro en route to the Avenue Montaigne must have either just come directly from a show or have loved her runway look enough to keep it because she was somewhat of a fashion caricature, shuffling along in sky [...]

October 1, 2008

A Vogue Encounter

Yes, we know we have more or less blatantly copied the title of an episode of Sex and the City for this post, but Carrie Bradshaw does not have a monopoly on unexpected fashion editor sightings!
After the frenzied atmosphere of the shows, we felt really in the mood for a lazy lunch a la Parisienne. [...]

October 1, 2008

Paris in the…Spring/ Summer 09!

After touching down in a rather wet and gloomy Paris, it was hard to get into the right frame of mind to browse swimwear collections for next summer! Fortunately the weather did soon lift, as did our spirits. By the time we made it over to Porte de Versailles, we were seriously dying to see [...]