joyeux 14th Juillet : BASTILLE DAY

A French girl's Bastile Day Salut a touch of french tulips and with the help of my all time favourite French fashion inspirations; Brigitte Bardot, Isabel Marant in her studio, Kym Ellery au Musse via Garance Dore, Vanessa Paradis, Emmanuelle Alt,  Julia et Carrine Roitfeld, Francoise Hardy, Serge Gainsbourg et Jane Birkin et Lou Doillon. 

Vive La France 

xxxx 

des bisous

{ learn more of M. Gainsbourg and the woman in his world, in the film "Gainsbourg" it's good!!! check the trailer to follow }

I want to be a Flower Girl

Garance Dore, she is the world renowned queen of the blogger chic and elite.
Not only is she fabulous and french so obviously super chic is a given.... but smart, witty, creative and incredible behind the lens whether is be a camera or film and a self taught illustrator who's sexy silhouettes entice fashion girls the world over.

Illustration by Garance Doré; featuring a SS2010 Isabel Marant inspired Jacket (currently on my wishlist)

She is my go to for inspiration, the who's who and who's where for fashion, culture, dressing, views of life, style and for a good laugh. I connect with her french view and relate to her thoughts through her intelligent yet stylish writing style be it in her mother tongue of french or translated for her audience to english.

Garance Doré and partner Scott Schuman, the Sartorialist.  

(Photo: Graeme Mitchell. Hair and Makeup by Sarah Graalman for Dior Beauty.

It was the start of September 2010 almost a year since returning home from my Euro stint living a life I'd dreamed of in Paris, when I clicked the Garance Dore link entitled "Flower Girl" (featuring Denise Porcaro, a top NYC based "flower stylist" I love that title!) to delve into her world for just a moment via Garance's latest post and was swept away. Swept right away reading about Flower Girl New York's world and into a floral wonderland with dreams and ideas of my own venture, I now wanted to become a flower girl......

source { garancedore.fr }