Kate Spade, the queen of Fun New York fashion, has taken the leap over the « pond » (the Atlantic ocean) and snagged a very chic address on rue Saint Honoré, in the heart of Paris, and on one of THE best shopping streets in the City of Light. I found myself with five minutes to spare the other day and ducked… Read more →
Catégorie : Mode
The #PreteMoiParis7Years Blog Party
After two months of planning and preparation, Prête-Moi Paris was finally able to celebrate 7 years of blogging with a circle of amazing bloggers and friends at the luxurious Hotel Bel Ami. To help us celebrate we invited Le Bijou Parisien and Le Cadeau Français as well as Bertie’s Cupcakery to join us for the fun. Our generous « co-hosts » offered up… Read more →
Le Bijou Parisien – For the Paris Obsessed!
True to our current digital times, I met Aurélien of Le Bijou Parisien, on Instagram. I saw that he had liked a photo of mine, so I went browsing the account for this ultra Parisian brand, and started « liking » all sorts of photos. And I fell INSTANTLY under the charm of this fun and sophisticated way of wearing my adored city of… Read more →
Goth Gone Mainstream : #PFW Street Style by Frank Cierpial
Article by Frank Cierpial Fashion Week in Paris is a major event. For one week in the Fall and another in Spring we all dress for ourselves and for each other as people from all over the world land in Paris to see what is walking down the runway here in the capital of Fashion. It’s exciting to walk along rue de… Read more →
Alon Livné : Paris Fahion Week SS 17
Article by Frank Cierpial Tom Ford once said that marketing is an art in itself. I believe that, and it is one of my favorite parts of the Fashion Industry. When I was at ESMOD and working with a talented young African Designer, my favorite part of the final project was putting together the branding, because I simply love it.… Read more →
Luis Buchinho #PFW Spring Summer 2017
Article by Frank Cierpial As you all know, here at Prête-Moi Paris, we have a special relationship with Luis Buchinho that goes back a while now. He is always the highlight of our Fashion Week schedule and that is mostly because he is innovative, creative, and always does something different to keep us on the edge of our seats. This… Read more →
Musée de la Contrefaçon – Museums of Fakes
Article by Frank Cierpial Contrefaçon in French, means « counterfeit items » in English. Yes, in Paris you can find museums for the authentic and the unauthentic, but the atmosphere is totally different. We go to art museums for the same reason that we go « window shopping » on Rue de Faubourg Saint Honore. We go to marvel at something; either we marvel… Read more →
Defined Moment – Haute Couture SS15 – The Wedding Collection
For all the past seasons that I have been invited to the presentation of Defined Moment, I have been unable to go, and have had one of my contributors attend. Finally this season I was free, and am so glad I got to see this collection for myself. It was breathtaking! Titled « White Moment », this collection was entire dedicated to… Read more →
Charles Gillman and Men’s Fashion Week Adventures
Article by (British Expat and Makeup Artist) Charles Gillman It was Fall/Winter 2015/16 men’s fashion week in Paris. Despite the fact that fashion was something I never seemed to struggle with in Paris, the men was something that I wasn’t managing to master after four years in the city of lights. Fair enough I had tailored my wild… Read more →
Oscar Carvallo Couture FW2014
Article by Charles Gillman Images provided by Oscar Carvallo Summer was here, and didn’t this Brit know it! Anything generally above ten degrees celsius sends me into a broad-spectrum decline of complaining how unbearably sweltering it is and re-sighting dramatically about how I may not make it to the fall, by falling face first on to a thirty degree pavement.… Read more →