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Dream Gift Guide #2, colette

Ideas from the colette newsletter...

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Dream Gift Guide #1, Département Féminin

We’ll start with Départment Féminin, best edit of any luxury multimarque anywhere, and located in Toulouse. Luckily for us, they also have a website. I’ve talked about the founder Carole Benazet’s elegant home here before, as well as her store.

To cut to the chase, I believe that you, dear imaginary luxury fiend, could probably use some gloves. 

Images from the "Glove Theater" on the Département Féminin Facebook page.

You should also really have a Balenciaga City bag.  Clémence Poésy looks so darling with hers – when is that ever not enough of a reason?

And yet, the Celine Classic bag is so perfectly subtle, and you can't be a rockstar everyday can you? 

Warm up that credit card – I think you might need both of them.

And to top things off, so to speak, how about a Sarti scarf in khaki (or gray like Garance's)? The way the cashmere folds and billows around the neck – you’ll want to write a thank you letter to the nice goats who provided their woolly down!

Image: Garance Doré

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Image: Behind the scenes of the Département Féminin Christmas newsletter.

What does an American give a French person for Christmas? An L.L. Bean boat bag, a J. Crew sweater, something by Pendleton – I know French people who leave room in their suitcases for Abercrombie & Fitch hoodies for all of their friends. I won’t talk about what French treats you should give an American, as the cool brands of perfumes and macarons tend to be well documented.

Instead I’d like to create a fantasy gift guide for a dear, imaginary luxury fiend… I work for some lovely luxury websites and this is the moment to share the things I drool over on a regular basis. 

Me, I don’t need anything.  (Except maybe plain, non-Honey Nut Cheerios – the French grocer’s most obvious lacuna.)