September 2011
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just got back from working the nina ricci show....
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question time
alright everyone, it’s paris fashion week. and you know what that means - dressing to impress. that said, i have invites to a few (important) shows this season and i want to hear your thoughts - what should i wear?
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“I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never seen.”
– John Steinbeck, East Of Eden (via polyrhythmatic)
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just a little off the top
and while we’re still sort of on the topic of japanese things, i got my hair cut yesterday. i asked my friend louis, who grew up in paris, where to go for the cut. he immediately suggested superstars, located in the 1st arrondissement. as soon as he followed the reccomendation by saying it was “very japanese” i was sold.
looking in from the outside of superstars - there...
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while we're talking about gardens
okay so these posts got a little out of order, but that’s alright. after seeing the gardens of versailles last week, i went to the medieval town of provins on friday. located an hour and a half from paris, provins is an extremely old town preserved in (mostly) the same state it was hundreds of years ago. one has to enter through the fortification walls surrounding the city before wandering...
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they call it "lamen"
thanks to some friends, last week i found the tiny section of tokyo located in paris. it’s very small and very low key (until you see all the lines of hungry japanese and parisians queued on the sidewalk waiting for their fix), but the food is fantastic (as is the hot sauce). i had the miso ramen (“lamen”, en français) at higuma, and will definitely be returning.
my...
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on the topic of my country estate
last weekend some friends and i made the journey out to versailles, something i’d meant to do for a while now. despite the rain at the end of the day, i definitely saw why louis xiv wanted an estate there. it’s beyond impressive - it’s the definition of decadence, grandeur, and classicism. the sheer size of the chateau is overwhelming, but walking through it is a whole other...
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on the topic of le cinéma
if there’s a city that loves film more than paris does, i’d like to know about it. the parisians have a completely different relationship with the cinema than americans, or most everyone else i’ve encountered, do. parisians go to the cinema many times a week, the average number of the people i’ve encountered being as high as four times. four times a week! to a new...
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on the topic of a work space
a picture of my current workspace (also known as the unused side of my bed).
having a workspace is one of the most important things to me (and i believe it should be for everyone). i’ve never been one for working in libraries or shared spaces (besides the occasional park), i’m usually much more comfortable and productive in my own space, somewhere surrounded by my own things and...
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“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via geometricity)
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frank ocean - thinking of you
will i ever be...
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on the topic of my new jeans
i went to the apc surplus store today to check it out (apc at 50-75% discounts? yes please) and ended up buying some jeans. first i tried on some cures in size 30, decided they were (somehow) too big, and sized down to a 28 petite standard (for a thinner leg). i came out of the dressing room laughing, because the jeans actually fit! when the salesman asked me what i thought of them, i just kept...
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“It is not easy … to wait. Waiting is what the hunter does, and the poet and the...”
– Cary Tennis (via atomos)
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“Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that...”
– Pablo Picasso (via equanimities)
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on the topic of writing
i just revisited the last letter i got from my friend richard, which i received mid summer when still in new york. it’s fascinating how many things change so quickly, while some of the more important things (that you may not have thought as important before) remain the same. consistency versus transiency, i guess.
writing truly is a lost art form. richard mentioned a passage of proust...
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on the 10th anniversary
being an american in paris on the 10th anniversary of september 11th is a strange feeling. there wasn’t any congregation of people remembering, there wasn’t a day of rest unlike any other sunday, nor did people even seem to acknowledge that today was different. and perhaps that’s because it wasn’t for them, just for me and my american companions.
to this day, i remeber...
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on the centre pompidou
today i went to the centre georges pompidou with a few friends. i’d been before, but they had rotated a lot of their permanent collection, so it was almost like a new museum. one piece i particularly enjoyed was plight, by joseph beuys, pictured below.
it’s a full 2 rooms covered in rolls of beuy’s signature grey felt. one has to enter through a sort of dwarf-sized door, and...
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grizzly bear - shift
ok, just one more for now....
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on fashion's night out - the french way
fashion’s night out is always a nice of drinking, networking, and shopping (for some [maybe for all, depending on how many drinks we’ve had]). i was in berlin for fashion’s night out last year (where they don’t do anything), so i knew that my first fashion’s night out in 2 years had to be seriously fun.
i don’t want to make it dramatic, but it really...
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on the benefits of keeping your ears open
after walking around for hours in the sun yesterday, i decided to split off from everyone else and keep walking before heading home. in one store i walked into, a man remarked to his friend (in english!) that he loved my shirt. i, of course, said thanks, and a conversation ensued. thanks to this, i made a great contact for an internship - he is the art director for a very prominent design house....
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on the benefits of a stroll
yesterday was one of those rare days that one really realizes the beauty of the place one lives in. around noon, alex and i decided to check out the farmer’s market that takes place outside our building every thursday and saturday mornings. now, i’ve heard things about parisian markets before, but i couldn’t believe my eyes. not only were there clothes, dvds, and every kitchen...
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ok, this is just a quick post to update everyone.
in 8.5 hours i will have been in paris for one week, and i honestly can’t really believe it. on one hand, it feels like i’ve just gotten here, and at the same time it feels like i’ve been here for months. it’s also very strange reliving (in a sense) the experience of coming to berlin, exactly a year ago, but this time with...
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