Is Carven’s zig zag shirt too well-behaved? That’s not what Guillaume Henry, creative director for the brand, thinks: “You have to play with the rules of harshness and consistency by preserving its fragility and revealing the body’s more delicate attachments, ankles, wrists… The unspoken is the most infernal.” he asserts. Even buttoned up to the collar, the...
For its Spring/Summer 2013 collection, Charlotte Olympia is signing off on a clutch purse inspired by Chanel N°5 that’s already making tongues wag: Yellow Scent. Ever since her very first collection, Charlotte Olympia has garnered unanimous praise from journalists and her 5th Avenue customers. Since 2007, she’s been sharpening her genius in refining the...
“I suddenly became aware of the female body. I started to converse with the woman and to become aware of what a modern woman is”. Yves Saint Laurent doesn’t fashion any woman for his clothes, but rather dedicates his compositions and offers his creations to the woman. His sources of inspiration are inexhaustible. Crossing artistic,...
In one of Paris’ most prestigious gardens, Jérôme L’Huillier’s boutique sparkles and shines. In this colorful and artistic Bohemian universe, the architect of materials and colors finds himself going back to the 60s and 70s, making for a sensual, feminine, and sunny happiness. Pioneer of Paris’ Palais Royal, Jérôme L’Huillier, in 1995, became the first designer to install himself...
A “white shirt (…) reveals thousands of identities”, but when the form and the shade give an infinite number of identities to the garment, only that of the wearer is revealed in the end. The white shirt is neutral only in appearance. The power in its absence, the mystery in its clarity, its utter lack...
“What’s the point of making clothes if you can’t do anything in them!” This advertising slogan from 1996 still resonates with our subconscious. From these quarrelsome whims was born the name Petit Bateau. Inspired by a French nursery rhyme, the brand rode on the success of its great innovation: legless underwear for children. This crème de la...
Roland Garros has just began. The best tennis players gather for two weeks to compete. Who will gobble the other? Who will be the winner among Nadal, Federer and Djokovic? No doubt that the elegance will be the second winner during the French open. In such a competition, the crocodile brand is most likely to...
Fashion is an eternal cycle of renewal, shaped by our obsessions. Paris, September 2011: the iconic pleated skirt makes its comeback on the catwalk of the Fashion Week. For the spring-summer 2012 season, the pleats lose their rigidity and instead sculpt fluid and lucid silhouettes. So antique chic! High-waisted with retro print accompanied by a...
A magnificent sun pampers your body as you lie out on a beach in the French Riviera; all the while, you’re slowly sipping a martini: summer is here. The only thing left to do is to set your sights on a deliciously chic Eres swimsuit. 1968: creator Irène Leroux founds the Maison Eres, effectively modernizing the...
The sun beats down on a mesmerized crowd, their heads swinging from side to side to keep up with every second of the action. That satisfying “POP” of racket making contact with ball couples with the laborious grunts of the players themselves. The Wimbledon tennis tournament has been in full swing now for the past...
