Bio

photo by Cassi Bryn Michalik

Welcome to my blog.  I’m Elisabeth Fourmont, a half-American, half-French writer living in Paris, France (born and raised in Florida). I say that I have French blood whenever I can, because there is not one part of me that looks remotely French, except for maybe my hair.  The lady who cuts it, Valerie, has contrived that it be in my face at all times.

This blog has existed since 2004. I’ve been quoted, or my blog has been mentioned (in articles talking about expat blogging or Paris fashion), in New York Magazine, The Sydney Morning Herald, Le Parisian, L’Express, About.com, Glamour.com, The Sunday Telegraph, Business Week, Glam.com, Wall Street Journal Europe, La Rédoute, and The International Herald Tribune.

I’m a freelance writer, and also the associate fashion editor at Chicago magazine, which means I spend about four months of the year in the good city of Chicago working on their fashion issues. 

You can click here if you’d like to see my published clips. (note: Coming soon!)

This blog documents the three years I lived in a 17-meter-square (that’s about 11 by 14 feet) garret in a 16th century building in the Latin Quarter, across the hall from my French cousin, Jeanne, blocks away from Notre Dame -- (To name just one downside, of which there were many, my shower was in my kitchen... But on the upside, I was in PARIS!)-- to my recent move to graffiti-covered Belleville, which the Washington Post calls "the last bastion of authenticity" and which, according to the delicate American noses that have visited me, is sometimes stinky.  I like to call that stench, Eau de la Street Cred.