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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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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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Christmas Windows Paris- Hermes

Hermes Paris Holiday Windows
Hermés never fails to serve up luxurious decadence in their holiday windows and this year is no exception. From gold metallic boxing gloves, to an ostrich motorcycle helmet, to a lavender colored crocodile Kelly bag, to a sliver fox and shearling cape, the windows are pure fantasy along with the price tags. MORE: Holiday  Leila Menchari the genius window designer, celebrates her fiftieth year working for Hermés and is still pulling out all the stops in creating the fabulous windows. -- Richard Nahem MORE: Hermes Check out Richard's photo gallery of all the Hermes Paris Holiday windows: [nggallery id42] Visit in Paris:Hermés24 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008  

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Christmas Windows Paris- Printemps ‘Dream of Escape’ has a little Karl doll!

A little animated Karl doll!
The Printemps Christmas windows in Paris have  F-A-S-H-I-O-N on the mind. Holiday cheer is spread not through Santa and his team of gifty elves, but with a little munchkin-cute Karl Lagerfeld doll leading the Chanel team of fabulousness.  Take a look... --S.H. MORE: Holiday  This year the Christmas windows at Printemps, titled Noel Reves d'Evasion (Dreams of Escape), is much ado about Karl Lagerfeld and Chanel. Noel Reves d'Evasion at Printemps Four windows have Chanel backgrounds from Moscow, Los Angeles, Moscow, and Tokyo with clever and imaginative sets and animated dolls. The other windows display animated Kaiser Karls(as the fashion flock call him);  dolls dressed in his signature look of black suit, high-collared white shirt and dark glasses with his

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Another Must-See Costume Exhibition- Madame Gres Exhibit at Mus

That Grecian draped dress that you love was probably inspired by Mme. Gres! Most eyes may be on the Alexander McQueen retrospective in New York, but don't miss this exhibition from one of the masters in fabric draping. If I could only have just one vintage couture piece, something from Madame Gres would be on my wish list. The extraordinary and timeless designs of this French couturier are on exhibition in Paris. Richard Nahem takes us there. --S.H. Madame Gres was one of the great couturiers of the 20th century with a career spanning over 50 years. Born in 1903, Gres trained as a sculptor and later said that working with fabric was the same as working in stone. Madame

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Tres French Chic Store Windows Approved by La Parisienne Ines de la Fressange

Retail Remedy: A homage to the stylish women of Paris Who better than French style icon Inès de la Fressange to be the ambassador for La Parisienne? That's the event at Galeries Lafayette department store to promote the stylish, urban women of Paris. Inès de la Fressange is a former top model, a muse to Karl Lagerfeld, and once the visage of Marianne, the national emblem of France. More recently she is also had a successful career as a designer, a fashion consultant, and currently the brand ambassador for the renowned French shoe brand, Roger Vivier. But the big store window homage is to push her new style book, Parisian Chic: A Style Guide, or as she describes, "a user's

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Home Style- French Furniture House Taillardat Adds a Fashion Touch to Marie Antoinette, Louis XV, Louis XVI, Empire and Directoire pieces

Style Where You Sit: A modern spin on high-end 18th century furniture reproductions You all must know that I cannot possibly imagine living in a home without the benefit of having something beautiful to look at and inspire by way of its furniture. For me, in particular, the chair can take so many artistic and creative forms that I wish I could collect as many as my other obsession- shoes and boots! >>MORE: Home Style I've almost run out of any possible space to add another "interesting" chair in our loft, so I've come to admire from afar, particularly ones that have a different design aesthetic from my home. Richard Nahem, who has a pretty fab pad in Paris, came

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House of Dior Homage Exhibition for Paris Fashion Week

Retail Remedy: Le Bon Marché in Paris showcases the Eternellement Dior We know how much Richard Nahem loves the Paris that he shares in his walking tours, and he will be tipping FocusOnStyle during Paris Fashion Week. Designer John Galliano has been certainly in the news this week for his rather horrific alleged comments caught on a cell phone video. I've been interviewed a bit for my opinion on this and, based on what I have seen thus far, personally support the House of Dior in its termination of the designer as its creative director in the wake of this situation. You can see the video on The Sun, here. Le Bon Marche Rive Gauche, a major Parisian department store

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New Hermes Store in Paris is Ultra Modern Luxury

Retail Remedy: Is it possible to outdo a classic? Our intrepid expat and now Parisian, Richard Nahem, drools his way through the new Hermes shop on the Rive Gauche and shares some yummy tidbits for you to savor, whether in Paris or abroad... it's the chic side of Paris in another arrondissement. -S.H. Hermés on the rue St. Honoré is my favorite luxury store in Paris. When I visit, I bask in all its luxuriousness, feeling the softness of the silk scarves against my cheek and running my fingers across the supple leather products giving myself goosebumps. I rarely buy anything but it's fun to fantasize. so warm, cozy, and chic In fact, I have a collection of classic Hermés

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Most Stylish Blogger Award and 7 Things You Didn’t Know About Me

Award Season Starts Early Thanks to Jewels from the Roving Stove Plus, my picks for The Most Stylish Bloggers! Thank you, thank you to the gorgeous and talented Julie Anne Rhodes, aka "Jewels" from The Roving Stove for the Most Stylish Blogger Nomination! I'm more than flattered to get the thumbs up for "constantly amusing " you with the Impromptu Madness videos that Brad Boles and I have so much fun working on. If we had our own TV talk show (hint, hint out there), we would love to have YOU as our resident cooking expert! In lieu of an acceptance speech, part of the the Most Stylish Blogger nomination is to reveal seven things that you did not know

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Christmas Windows Paris- Chanel and Lanvin Holiday Displays

Retail Remedy: Rag dolls & dogs make for whimsy rather than traditional holiday window displays Not so traditional Christmas, c'est si bon! There's nothing that I love more on my walking tours of Paris than to spot the unexpected, especially during the holiday season. Take these whimsical windows, for instance... Lanvin Okay, the windows at Lanvin are not your conventional Christmas windows by any stretch of the imagination. Instead of cutesy dancing bears and marionettes gaily prancing, there are dogs wearing top hats, spectacles, and bow ties and bald headed mannequins spattered in white paint. Nonetheless, I think they are the cats meow and the dog's bark. And, almost as cute as the Printemps Loves Lanvin windows! Lanvin Love the

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Christmas Windows Paris- Printemps Loves Lanvin and Alber Elbaz for Holiday

Retail Remedy: Everybody loves Lanvin! Can Alber Elbaz do no wrong? Window shop these Paris holiday windows and see... Noel au Chateau where Mr & Mrs Lanvin once lived is the theme of this year's haute Paris Christmas windows... Printemps Paris The windows at Printemps are delightfully enchanting this year. Alber Elbaz, head designer for Lanvin, was chosen to create the windows this year. The theme is Noel au Chateau, and represents the famous Chateau Mr. & Mrs. Lanvin lived in. Marionettes styled after Mr. & Mrs. Lanvin dance their way through the various rooms of the chateau in each window with one of them being haunted by ghosts. >> LOOK at more beautiful store windows from Printemps Paris Actress

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Paris Chic Bicycles Are Rather Fun and Utalitarian

One reason why Parisians have such fab legs Somehow we would like to believe that the bikes in Paris are rather tzujed up glam affairs. But, no. More often than not, Parisians go for practicality rather than preciousness when it comes to getting around the city-- always with a dash of French chic style, of course! Richard Nahem, observes... I recently started taking photos of bicycles around the city. They have a certain charm which is hard to describe. From the slick racers that are used in the Tour De France, to the beat up but tough spray painted bicycles to the delivery ones with baskets to the gray, to the utilitarian Velib rentals, they are a vital form of

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