![]() ![]() In many decorating books and magazines you never see a TV or hardly see a fridge or the dog food.” Plus, she says, again laughing, “It’s very important when you’re an old lady like me to stay in touch with young people. You see their mess, you see how they live. Other than that she feels that your main asset is your smile. That’s why I wanted to do this, to make a book where there are no decorators, no professional people, just human beings. Ines encourages a style that is very much based on the basics: use half you budget on basics and half on impulse buys like accessories. I didn’t really find a book about this style. Cringe-worthy Yes, if the author of a book who intended to get you up to speed on Parisian style was just any old supermodel. “If you go to Brooklyn or to Tokyo or to Stockholm, you’ll find this style,” she continues. Parisian Chic: A Style Guide by Ins de la Fressange 7 April 2011 by Jesse Kornbluth 1447 The book is dedicated to my new best friend and then there’s a dotted line for you to fill in. A child of the bon ton-she’s the daughter of a French marquis and an Argentine-Colombian fashion model, and a grandmother brought loads of Lazard banking money into the family-she's nevertheless always had a hankering for la vie bohème. “There’s a style today that young people are doing, buying things in flea markets, buying vintage things, poor things like milk bottles and turning them into vases,” observes La Fressange. ![]()
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