Paris: 'Showroom FFI.'

FFI was established in 1998 with the support of the Flemish Government. Since 1st of July 2009, FFI is a unit of Flanders District of Creativity (www.flandersdc.be). FFI stimulates entrepreneurship in the fashion industry in Flanders, sensitizes designers about business skills, guides them in their career and promotes fashion from Flanders on the national and
international scene.



Since 2007, Flanders Fashion Institute supports the presence of the Belgian designers in Paris during the presentation of their new winter and summer collections. Over the past four years FFI’s Showroom Antwerp offered a platform to emerging fashion talent excelling in creative quality with a strong vision on fashion. A number of promising designers have been selected to showcase their collection to the international fashion industry, buyers and press.


Photographer Phil Tubbax and I.

These jacket are from WOLF by Sofie Claes. She also made the beautiful yellow jumper! This collection was my favourite one!











Also these amazing 'wedges'/heels are from WOLF by Sofie Claes

Paris: 'Things I couldn't resist.'

Pink dress, green pants and blue silk top: Zara.
I also bought a Starbucks and a lot of food like Macarrons!

Paris: 'Walking down the streets with my red pants.'

I'm showing you some more pictures from Paris!

Everything is from Zara, the shoes are from Converse. The diamond heels on the other pictures are from Zara too.

Paris: 'The pictures.'

It's time to show you the pictures I've made! We started at Sacre-Coeur for a shoot with two models. While we were waiting for them we visited the Moulin Rouge and I picked some Macarons with me!





Once they arrived we start shooting. The two girls were beautiful and I can't wait to see the results! It's already my 10th cooperation with a photographer and I'm glad that things are going good! And I know that I need to share more stylingwork with you, but I'll do that soon!


After the shooting I ran to the Champs Ellysées. I needed to shop! I want to Zara (I didn't had more time :(!) and I bought some green pants, a pink dress and a blue silk top! I really need some colors in my closet!




I made this pictures at the doors of Sephora! Look a the peoples there! I read something about Liv Taylor, I was surprised!

And then it was time for the Event! Those pictures will come later with some extra outfit pictures!

Back from Paris.

I'm already back from Paris but we had an amazing time there! We saw almost every little important place in Paris in only one day, I'm tired, but it was worth it.

I'll show the pictures of my day at Paris after working :$. Have a great saterday sweeties!

I love Paris, Madeleine Vionnet and er, Eurostar.

OK, OK so I probably don't actually love the Eurostar train - though it has made going to Paris a doddle - and this week Mr That's Not My Age did say he was thinking of taking up bird-watching, so we may turn into a twitcher and a trainspotter, who knows?! Anyway, let's leave our middle-aged hobbies out of this, and concentrate on Paris.

'It was never hard for me to create my first dresses,' said Madeleine Vionnet, 'they came out of me like a baker baking dough. It was later, towards the end of my career that it was more difficult for me. Because I had invented everything.' And whilst, the mistress of bias cut may not have been the most modest designer on the Rue de Rivoli, she's certainly not wrong. The current exhibition at Les Arts Decoratifs, Paris, shows off 125 stunning dresses from the 1920s and 30s (du soir et du jour) all of which are beautifully made and utterly timeless. Guest starring the wooden mannequin Vionnet engineered her scaled-down frocks on, and a fantastic animation of the one-seam dress (I watched it three times and still can't explain how it works, sorry!), it's easy to see why Mme Vionnet was viewed as 'an artist of fashion.'

As a special treat, I'll leave you with another quote, from madame (on good taste), some French bicycles and a lovely postcard from the museum shop (I'm saving up for the Vionnet book).

'Taste is a feeling that makes all the difference between what is beautiful and what is ugly! It is transmitted from mother to daughter. But some people don't need to be educated, they are innately tasteful. I think I'm one of them.'





'Madeleine Vionnet, puriste de la mode’, is on at Les Arts Décoratifs, 107 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris; + 33 01 44 55 57 50, until January 31 2010


Vionnet photos from Les Arts Decoratifs