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Showing posts with label Lanvin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lanvin. Show all posts
Sunday, November 21, 2010
I thought I was 'READY' for the HM Lanvin sale on Saturday....
I was NOT!I arrived rather leisurely at 8:15 AM.
This sale was nothing like the Sonia sale.
I had not read the fine print nor seen the flyers nor carefully checked the HM website. Here's the deal: the 1st 320 people to show up get timed different colored bracelets (see above) with a specific time slot when they can shop. Twenty people at a time get to shop for 15 minutes is the deal.
People started lining up at midnight the night before!We were lucky to even get a colored bracelet at all!
Eeek who knew?
And to think I was worried about not getting my morning walkies in. I raced around to 4 different H&Ms to check out the situation. Thank you PBers for making me get my daily exercize in! If I didn't have to report in I probably would have stayed in bed and missed all the excitement.
Quelle zoo!
Actually it was well organized and thought out. Only TWO garments of each style were allowed to be purchased.
How come the staff always get to wear the best T-shirts?I offered to buy the shirt off his back but he said,
"Come back after 3 PM."
Here's a lucky ducky with all his goodies (Oh jealousie!) who must have arrived at the crack of dawn...
I went into Prete a manger for a coffee to kill time until my time slot of 12:20(!) I chatted with Brit sisters Jean and Dorothy, visiting New York for 4 days, so I drew them a little map of NYC-not-to-be-missed highpoints on a napkin :)
Finally my chance to grab some Lanvin came!
The adorable glasses I'd dreamed of owning were gone the first 2 minutes after opening I heard tell. Wouldn't it be spectacular if all of New York was walking around wearing Alber Elbaz nerdie glasses? What were you thinking Lanvin putting out so few pairs...sob...sob
I passed on this bracelet but did find a Lanvin lipstick, not even mentioned...
Ah the beloved glasses/lunettes again....sniff
I walked away with quite adorable T-shirts ($39.95) with a bow/noeud attached.
A shopper asks last minute advice from the sales girl..."Should I or shouldn't I?"
The shopping bags alone were worth the trouble. And they did have tres charmant cotton bags with Elbaz drawings scrawled on them for a mere $3.95 donated to Unesco - I got a few as gifts etc.
So not a bad haul all in all, though I am still pinning for those AE glasses. Will trade a painting or just about anything for THOSE lunettes!!!
The shopping bags alone were worth the trouble. And they did have tres charmant cotton bags with Elbaz drawings scrawled on them for a mere $3.95 donated to Unesco - I got a few as gifts etc.
So not a bad haul all in all, though I am still pinning for those AE glasses. Will trade a painting or just about anything for THOSE lunettes!!!BONJOUR H&M LANVIN!!!
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Has this happened to you? You go to the museum (in this case yesterday at the Metropolitan's new exhibit of Haremhab, the Egyptian general who became king) and all you notice is the elegant flat tums!
All you can think is, Oh why did you wolf down those divine chausson aux pommes in Paris?
A tough contest -Between an elegant flat tum or an elegant chausson aux pommes...
Fortunately the first time you went to Des Gateaux et du Pain they were ferme! It was a mardi bien sur...
The flat tum won out that time...
All you got was a sneak peek into the open cuisine doorway...
Miam? 
Or miam-miam? A second visit was more successful...
Les viennoiseries d'or at Des Gateaux are pretty darn irresistable...
And the interiors...
Are so darn elegant...
An Egyptian from Haremhab's time could easily have designed it...
I'd planned on tasting the prize-winning chausson aux pommes (according to Le Figaro) but the chausson aux agrumes (Pâte feuilletée au beurre frais et sel de guérande caramélisée, crème au jus et zeste de citron et pamplemousse) made my heart beat...
So fast I couldn't hold the camera still munch munch
miam-miam
Was it worth it?If it meant not looking as svelt and nubile as these Egyptian beauties?
Particularly with the HM Lanvin collection opening this Saturday!?
Again at the Met another uncanny likeness of designer Alber Elbaz
Asking me, where was your restraint?
Particularly with the HM Lanvin collection opening this Saturday!?Oh why did I give in to temptation?
What would YOU have done?
Again at the Met another uncanny likeness of designer Alber Elbaz 
Asking me, where was your restraint?How will you fit into my gowns this Saturday?!
God only knows...
There are so many museums to visit-don't miss this one in Paris by going on a Tuesday. Mais faites attention!
God only knows...
There are so many museums to visit-don't miss this one in Paris by going on a Tuesday. Mais faites attention! They have FOUR video screens hidden by the cash register to catch undercover pastry sleuths. They let me off this time...
BONJOUR HM/LANVIN + MET/Haremhab + Des Gateaux & du Pain!
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Photo by Grance DoreWhile Sunday surfing I came across this arresting photo by Garance Dore of Lanvin's Spring 2011 collection...
Yesterday I went to a press preview of the Jan Gossart exhibit at the Met - can you see where this is headed?
Lanvin's fabulous flowie drapery...
Has Alber Elbaz been looking at Neatherlandish painting?
Or is it just me that sees...
These complex draperies...
Repeated in these paintings of Jan Gossart? 
Scrunched...
Red pigment was such a rare commodity for artists back in the 13-14th century - vermilion or cinnabar was usually reserved for the most exquisite of painted subjects like the virgin. But here the artiste has deemed himself worthy of the finest. Is that why I see RED everywhere?
Of course Lanvin loves black too...
As does this Met preview observer draped in noir...
Lanvin designer Alber Elbaz would make a worthy portrait subject for 13th century Jan Gossart don't you think?
Can't you envision the couture sketches pinned to the wall behind his head and fabric swatches/colored threads on his work table..?
Bien sur only a 21st century designer could dream up these fantastical shoes-who knows if they bothered with shoes under all that drapery?
Back in New York a boy braves the cold with not much drapery at all. He better cover up - it's 54 degrees out there.
Bien sur only a 21st century designer could dream up these fantastical shoes-who knows if they bothered with shoes under all that drapery?opens tomorrow at the Metropolitan Museum - a spendid exhibit.
Back in New York a boy braves the cold with not much drapery at all. He better cover up - it's 54 degrees out there.BONJOUR LANVIN/JAN GOSSART!
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