Les Paradis Artificiels: New Year's Resolutions

Film Style: Audrey Hepburn In CharadeI know Breakfast at Tiffany's is probably everyone's favourite Audrey Hepburn film, but for me it has to be the comic thriller Charade from 1963. Not only does it have Cary Grant (the only film he did with Audrey), it is also set in Paris, and it has the most wonderful selection of autumnal...

Les Paradis Artificiels: Girl Crush: Maayan Zilberman By the way don't you just love that expression? I think it perfectly describes the instinctive feelings we as girls have for other girls, like when ten minues after having met a girl we are already talking about favourite books or manicures. Or, on the other side, when one nanosecond after...

Les Paradis Artificiels: Unknown Style Icons: Natacha Rambova Actually we probably share many of them: Audrey Hepburn, Edie Sedgwick, Brigitte Bardot... and all the rest of the style icons that fill every "Style Icons" list in the Western world. I confess sometimes I find it all a bit tiring. Don't get me wrong, I love Audrey and Edie as much as the...

Les Paradis Artificiels: Lights, Camera... Action! Inspired by the endless "scènes de ménage" and dissatisfied housewives throughout film history (from Jean Harlow in Dinner at Eightto Carmen Maura in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown or Thelma & Louise), the story was shot by Jeremy Zaessinger and styled by my friend Ray Tetauira and...

5 New Year's Resolutions Your Closet Will AppreciateWe've been thinking a lot about New Year's resolutions today — which ones are worth making, which ones aren't, and which ones are actually going to help us live better, more stylish lives in the year to come. And among the many we've tossed around in our collective head (including drag Chloe...

Les Paradis Artificiels: Color Crazy But as exciting and bright and optimistic as colour block looks on editorials and runways, I'm slightly terrified at the prospect of seeing everyone stroll down the streets dressed in a "colourful" style (aka slightly clownesque). As I see it, if the trend is not properly worked, it could...

Beautiful New Year's ResolutionsThe New Year is always a perfect time to make changes in our lives. It's like a clean slate where we can start over, renewed, refreshed and ready to take on the challenges that life throws our way. I've written down ten of my New Year's Resolutions to improve my health because we all know that...

Les Paradis Artificiels: Tutti Frutti So, no matter what your fancy is, jump into the tutti frutti trend! Miu Miu has gone for an apple-licious look in its 2011 resort collection. Fun and insolent, the collection features a retro apple print (with a delicious 70's feel) in dresses, palazzo pants and shirts... ... and the...

Les Paradis Artificiels: Absolutely Fabulous Hallelujah! You see, Patsy Stone and Eddie Monsoon are a pillar of the fashion industry (I wonder what this says about the fashion industry) and Ab Fab has been a crucial influence on virtually everyone I know. We all have spent countless hours laughing at the politically incorrect jokes made...

Beauty Tips by Audrey Hepburn A lot of it is rather amusing, but amongst it I found a list of beauty tips by Audrey Hepburn so I thought I would share them with you. For lovely lips, speak words of wisdom For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry For beautiful hair,...

YOUR New Year's Resolutions!Earlier this week, we sent a text to our SMS subscribers to find out what your New Year's resolutions are for 2011. We narrowed it down to the top five responses and discovered that exercising more, adopting new hobbies, freshening up your style, and quitting bad habits are among your top...

Les Paradis Artificiels: Anchors Ahoy Eventually I realize I would look quite Zoolanderish around real fishermen with my ruby-red lipstick and tilted little white sailor's hat, and so one more year goes on with me working in fashion. But there shall not be a crisis this summer! When the other day I saw Yves Saint Laurent's 2012...

New Year's Resolutions I'm gonna tell you guys five of my New Year's Resolutions and then tag five other bloggers to do the same. : ) Hopefully, we can spread it to a lot of people by January 1st! I'd love to know what everybody's New Year's Resolutions are! :D 1. Get rid of my dark circles/eye bags. This is...

New Year's Resolutions: StyleCaster Style The stock answer to what your New Year's resolution seems to be, "I try to maintain a healthy lifestyle all year and not just make fleeting decisions because it's New Year's." Or something along those obnoxious lines. I think the ending of a year deserves reflection, reverence, reevaluation...

New Year's Resolutions: StyleCaster Style - Blake Martin, Production Manager I never make resolutions- but this year I want to get StyleCaster to pass 100k Twitter Followers ;) http://www.Twitter.com/StyleCaster -Rachel Siegel, Media Relations My New Year's resolution is to help Siegs (i.e. Rachel Siegel) get the StyleCaster...

What We're Wearing: Kristian Sticks To His New Year's Resolution" Have I Been Sticking To My New Year's Resolution?: "Well, I went to the gym this morning at 6:45 a.m, and I had a Dannon Light and Fit for breakfast—so far so good. Not gonna lie though, my stomach is trying to eat itself right now. Pray for me." My Snowy-Day Guilty Pleasure: "Hot chocolate...

Les Paradis Artificiels: Nuptial Fever Here's Audrey Hepburn with Mel Ferrer. Very Sabrina and Roman Holiday... ...And Space Age Audrey, some years later, with Luca Dotti. Doesn't she look adorable? Liz Taylor and Richard Burton in one of their weddings (although I can't quite remember which one). Her hairdo is really the most,...

Editor's Thoughts: 11 Quick New Year's Resolutions That Will Change Your Life In 2011I was thinking a lot about the lifelong trend of New Year's Resolutions. As today is not only the first day of the new decade AND an auspicious numeric day (1.1.11 is pretty awesome, don't you think?) I thought it might be a good idea to do something big. I've decided to make 11 New Year's...

Les Paradis Artificiels: The F Word Galliano is: this collection is just as wearable and fantastic now as it was 15 years ago (personally I would give anything for some of those embroidered silk palazzo pants and those silver-fringed scarves). Dior has now lost the most talented designer the brand ever had. And even if it signs...

What are your New Year's Resolutions? Remember to stay positive about your progress and reward yourself for small victories! Some of the most popular New Year's resolutions deal with finances and weight loss. Other popular resolutions deal with finding a better career, getting an education, or helping the environment....

Les Paradis Artificiels: Nailing ItOver the last few years I've come to realize one of the first things people notice about me are my nails. I once overheard a make-up artist saying about me: "every time she comes into the studio her nails look so neat". And someone described me to a friend as "the girl with the really red...

Les Paradis Artificiels: Chelsea Girls (and Boys) Steven Meisel shot many of the photos in Sex in room 822, with Madonna, who had lived there years before. Of course, there were many more stories and people who passed by the hotel, some notorious, some private. The place was never really very touristy, and it was unchanged, so it kept its...

Les Paradis Artificiels: Nothing is Written an outstanding fashion film styled by my friend René Gloor and shot by Nicolas Valois! I'm a really big fan of this one, not only because David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (the movie on which the fashion film was based) is one if my all-time favourites, but also because René and Nicolas's film...

Les Paradis Artificiels: The Paris Diaries: Halloween I sit and stare in amazement: I haven't seen so many straight boys together in years. Matter of fact, except in menswear shows, I haven't seen more than one straight boy at a time in years. So this is what my life has come to. Oh well, who wants to be surrounded by straight boys in checkered...

Les Paradis Artificiels: I Want Candy It needs to be tried! Although none of us will be going to El Bulli in the next couple of years. The Catalan restaurant is closing its doors for research (I guess Ferrán Adriá doesn't want to be one of those arrogant luxury chefs who still use the same recipes as in 1984) and it will open...

Les Paradis Artificiels: Splendour I'd like to see many 20 year-olds as energetic, positive and active as him! To me, there is a mysterious charm and an enormous wisdom to people who have lived for long and learned a lot from life. So when I came across Ari Seth Cohen's blog Advanced Style almost 2 years ago, I was really...

Les Paradis Artificiels: Blonde or Brunette? When asking my blonde friends (who, for the record, are not dumb) if they did have more fun, the only answer I got was "er, I don't know... How is it like to be a brunette?". Most of the boys I know don't really have a preference between brunettes and blondes; they will not mind hair colour...

Les Paradis Artificiels: Rainbow Club Rocking my new favourite bikini and seeing life through a new prism, I've come to realize rainbows are everywhere lately, mainly in Christopher Kane's ab fab cruise 2012 collection. But rainbows have been a recurrent inspiration subject in fashion for a long time; I can think of the...

Les Paradis Artificiels: Couture Aesthetics lots of XIXth century references. And not the obvious crinoline-cum-corset ones! Most designers seem to have reflected, one way or another, upon the Aesthetic movement that started in Britain in the 1860's and its femininity ideal. Dark, mysterious and primal yet languid and pure creatures...

Les Paradis Artificiels: Brits in Paris A couple of years have gone by. Now fashion week means stress and a hella extra work. When we come back home from the daily shows and meetings (we now get invites and have seriously lost practice on crashing) we have reviews to write, e-mails to send and very little energy to party. The fact...