J’en. peut. plus.
Fatigue has hit. All sudden like. But with the force of a Mack truck. Was wondering when that would happen. I feel college-exam-week tired. And there’s an ache thing happening every time I raise my arms.
I was awake at the shows today, though. Oh, yes. And you can bet your boots I’ll be writing a post mortem on what went down. (Five shows and you think stuff didn’t go down? Oh, STUFF WENT DOWN).
My seating for certain shows was amazing. Seating is a ridiculously big deal, and it has nothing to do with being able to see the clothes--that’s all done by appointment later. Did you know that my old boss just wouldn’t go to a show if she was assigned to the second row? It was first or nothing. I saw her today by the way.
Speaking of people sightings, it seems I'm starting to lose perspective. Today I was killing time at WH Smith between shows, and here’s Cathy Horyn of the New York Times perusing Vogue Italia next to me. Later, I’m riding the metro next to a model whose hair is still twisted elaborately from the Cacharel show. They’re invading MY Paris. I’m half expecting André Leon Talley to be watching television on my couch when I get home.
Reviews of the shows are just going to have to come later, sigh. Stella was stellar, dahling. Stella was faaabulous. She’s let me down in the past, but not this time.
Behold Stella
Afros on parade (Marongiu)
Trot, show ponies, trot! (Léonard)
Karen Elson + purple = Brilliance (Celine)
This model was in front of me at the ATM right by the Louvre metro after one of the shows. I took a really poor quality photo of her boots on my cell phone as she stood withdrawing cash, but then I realized I was BEING A TOTAL STALKER and deleted it.
Okay, I really must be going. A certain silver invitation with interlocking C’s arrived today, in case you were wondering. So I will be up bright and early with our favorite pony-tailed German designer. Chanel at 10:30. Beauty sleep? At this point, I’d take a beauty nap. And judging from the present hour, that’s about what I’ll be getting. A demain.
who could be more fabulous than karl lagerfeld? i am very much looking forward to your report on the Chanel show- as well as all the other STUFF that WENT DOWN. hang in there!
Posted by: linda | 04 March 2005 at 04:40 AM
Ok, you have to get some sleep and then get stalking! You let a boots shot go to waste?!?!?! :)
Posted by: Bob | 04 March 2005 at 04:57 AM
Eeek! Jessica Stam! Did you kick her? You should have kicked her.
Posted by: Asian Leprechaun | 04 March 2005 at 05:01 AM
Ah, to be exhausted after 5 fashion shows. Quite a life you are living this week! So, did the messenger come up all those stairs to deliver the Chanel invite? For some reason that would make me feel extra special.
Posted by: kiki | 04 March 2005 at 05:29 AM
ahh i wish i had your life right now!!
Posted by: Annie | 04 March 2005 at 05:31 AM
Interlocking C's!!!!! Wow. Just.... wow.
Posted by: ViVi | 04 March 2005 at 08:13 AM
Can't wait to hear about Chanel and your post show write up!
You are so fah-bulous for sharing with us and I'm curious to know what *stuff* went down?
Posted by: flare | 04 March 2005 at 09:31 AM
Yes, looking forward to hearing the scoop about stuff that "went down" at the shows. Don't let the fatique get you! We want all the details.
Posted by: Auntie M | 04 March 2005 at 10:33 AM
Bon courage, Coco...tu PEUT le faire!
Posted by: Sammy | 04 March 2005 at 12:03 PM
Ahh, what I'd give to be there.
Posted by: Pepina | 04 March 2005 at 03:46 PM
Coquette - Is it too stalker-ish of me to tell people that I know you? I have a feeling it will come up in convo's like this "so, yea... a friend of mine went to the Chanel show..." and then one of the hicks in my life will reply back "like the Chanel they sell at the purse party" or even better "oh I have a Chanel bag, when Aunt Rita went New York she bought one right on the street"...
So I won't tell people I know you, I'll just be SO FREAKIN happy that you are going to all of these wonderful shows!
Posted by: SaraJane | 04 March 2005 at 05:17 PM
One more comment for the day and I will seriously get back to work... I just added a quote to my list and ran accross this, so appropriate for today... Have fun and be elegant and make your blog friends jealous, I totally mean proud...
"Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future."
-- Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel
Posted by: SaraJane | 04 March 2005 at 05:22 PM
Oh wow oh wow. I got linked here through Manolo's shoe blog, and am so impressed by your blog! Wow. You got to attend the fashion shows! Which magazine/newspaper/media do you work for? I am mega-jealous of you. I would love to work in the fashion magazine industry, but alas, it seems my fate and talent may not lie there. So now I have resorted to fashion-blogging. Oh, and I love the way you described your experience. And I can't believe they didn't start the show within 5 mins of Anna Wintour's arrival, *gasp* such a daring crime!
Posted by: Harrods Girl | 04 March 2005 at 08:04 PM
Love Stell McCartney. Love you even more. Nice to finally read you.
Posted by: b | 04 March 2005 at 09:23 PM
......did you get to see Anna Wintour get hit with the pie? And was it, indeed, pie of the american steez? or a tarte...perhaps tatin?
ce blog est genial
Posted by: Anna | 04 March 2005 at 10:29 PM
i have a feeling one day people are going to blog ogle you like this one day ('cept that part about 'frightening human being' of course! just the stellar part...)
Posted by: brando | 05 March 2005 at 12:57 AM
Why are you going to all these shows? What is your job?
Posted by: J | 05 March 2005 at 03:25 AM
Oh, I <3 your blog. I was a Lyceene until university and I'm happy to relive my memories through you. ^^
Plus, lord, I'm so hoping you saw Ms. Wintour get pie-d before the Chanel show! I hear that she gatherd herself with great aplomb and quipped that "she didn’t know what type of pie it was—maybe tofu, but she felt sure it was great for the skin.” Can't say I'm a fan of the Wintour, but ha!
Posted by: Caro | 05 March 2005 at 07:41 AM
Exam week exhausted...I have up until this past week have never had the pleasure of knowing what that meant...so when it finally came my turn to experience it...I thought something was wrong with me. I literally felt like doing nothing but sleep for the past 4 days. And now that Spring Break is over...I am rejuvinated...funny how they do that to you.
Posted by: Kassi | 05 March 2005 at 06:22 PM
Regarding the afros on parade, I spend piles of money on Kiehls and Leonor Greyl hair products (go to her place for a treatment -- it's in Paris off Place Madeleine -- lifechanging experience) to make my hair not look that way. So thrilling to see that I just have to wake up looking like a redheaded witch, and I'm good to go!
PS Leonor Greyl's creme moelle de bambou shampoo and conditioner -- available at BHV, strangely, since its kind of pricey -- will leave your hair feeling like melted butter, even if it normally feels more like a big 'fro!
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