Prepare yourself psychologically, I'm all over the place today. No rhyme, no reason -- subheads may help give my stream of consciousness some cohesion.
What Is "Every-Other-Person You Know" Doing These Days?
That was the question posed by no less than three major French publications last week. And the answer is (!) the famous Dr. Dukan diet. It's true, almost everyone I know is on it (or is it, "doing it"?)
My friend Carole tells me she has seen splashy headlines in the States touting its fast, miraculous weight loss promises.
I'm still eating his pancake/blini/crepe breakfast thingie every morning. I absolutely love it -- wheat and oat bran, one egg and I'm told, substitute Greek yogurt for the recipe's final ingredient of no fat frommage blanc. If you want the exact measurements again, let me know and I'll have Cherie give them to you on Thursday.
In Passing. . .
We have here a "mini dress" constructed out of kitchen utensils in the display window of the Galeries Lafayette.
Hope you can see it well enough to ummm, "appreciate" it?
I Thought They Were Offering Free Samples
Another of my caught on the fly photos. This one at Printemps last week in front of the Louis Vuitton in-store boutique. Note the cord keeping over zealous shoppers dying to drop thousands of Euros to have something with LV splashed on it to prove, "Yes, I own a status symbol," and willing to wait hours for the opportunity.
Louis Vuitton is so ubiquitous one must wonder whether it even qualifies as a symbol of status these days.
There were more people in this line than on the Champs Elysees for the opening of a hot, new film or the magnificent Monet exhibition at the Grand Palais. If you will be in Paris over the next few months the exhibition runs until February, 2011.
On top: La Pominade by Claude Monet
14 comments:
I'll queue for Claude but not for Louis!
If I know nobody on the Dukan diet does this make me a social failure?
Sharon
xx
Wow, we only see lines like that in front of the Apple store anymore. Crazy.
The Dukan diet book is now available in English:
http://tinyurl.com/2bbwhu2
I can't get over the line at the Louis Vuitton boutique.
I met Claude Vuitton once at a truck showing at Saks when his family still owned the company. Those were the days.
Sam
"Louis Vuitton is so ubiquitous one must wonder whether it even qualifies as a symbol of status these days."
One should consider themselves very fortunate to call LV "ubiquitous". How very condescending to make such a pointed remark. Perhaps to those people, LV is, in fact, a luxury. Maybe they've worked long hours to earn money for the purchase and maybe where they are from it isn't all that ubiquitous. We all spend our money as we see fit, but there is no need to be so judgmental.
Ouch!
Why are the nastiest comments always written by anonymous?
...OR perhaps LV is the way to compensate for luck of style, taste, and status.
Let us remember that there is a gulf difference between status and style.
Status, as in LV or other logos emblazoned upon one's person, is the need to have someone else tell us who we are.
Style is knowing it all by ourselves, and not needing to wear anyone else's monogram.
I say, "to each her own". And that said, I simply cannot wait in a line that long for most anything. Status seeking of any kind is a bit amusing. It makes one wonder what is lacking from life so as to need the status in the first place.
I must take a looksie at this new "diet" book. Just one more money making enterprise in the diet industry.
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I am so curious about this Dukan diet? I love the sound of your crêpes for breakfast....what a way to start the day! Enjoy every bite of life ma chèrie, Anita
I must say I was a bit horrified when I was in the kitchen of a french friend as she made Dukan mayo with paraffin!
"...OR perhaps LV is the way to compensate for luck of style, taste, and status."
Yes, perhaps it is. Sadly, not everyone is so fortunate to have the luxury of style, taste and status. Instead of judging, we'd all do well to consider a bit of compassion instead.
Being originally from Paris, I must add it isn't considered gracious, nor French, to wrinkle your nose at another's taste. There is nothing stylish about snobbery and let us not confuse snobbery with taste. The French, having a long and sometimes sordid history, hold in mind, "There, but for the grace of God, go I."
C'est la vie
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