Paris: Act Like a French Girl
Happy summer solstice, everyone! Today's update is about what the rulers of summer are into fashion-wise and what they're kind of like (for all you "competitive" types!), plus a magazine overview. I'm using a NSFW tag for this one.
I went to Champs-Elysees, one of the most fabulous places in the world, to ask on behalf of the women back home: What are French girls into today? Answer: American-inspired stuff.
I just had to take this shot. I believe it is representative of who the modern French are. And look at the outfits! A redhead in a bubble jacket with knee-length skirt, an Asian lady with ♥headphones♥ and stilettos, an older Arabic woman in leather and a jean skirt with a little tyke in hearts, a [cut-off] blonde woman in a brown top over a dress shirt and slacks, and a brunette walking a dog in Converse, letting her tank peek out of her jacket. All in front of a yogurt place and shoe shop.
Taken at one of Champs-Elysees' many malls. I'm loving the coat and shorts look. I also like the hair parted over one eye. Probably because I'm so accustomed to seeing it on women in California.
I don't think I have to go over the versatility of the little black dress.
Louis Vuitton HQ.
Here's a bunch of people getting angry with the flagship's early close.
So I came back later, just to check it out. I was given a proposition by a relative to get a $2,500 bag, to which I responded emphatically with a negative statement.
The building was surprisingly small, its products spread across multiple cramped floors with security styled after the MiB. Photography was not allowed. Oops.
When asked why there weren't many people in such a high profile place, one gets lots of responses along the lines of, "Only tourists go here," or "The locals already got their take, so don't come anymore." I for one never really cared for LV stuff, and couldn't find anything of value for myself, save a silver watch that cost more than I had in my checkings account.
This has nothing to do with the theme. I just like Sacha Baron Cohen.
There's been a revival of 80's inspired clothing like the outfit to the left. I don't think it's going well for women, but the French boys seemed to accept it.
I saw two displays of this stuff, once near my apartment and then again at mall 26. I saw a few women wearing shard necklaces like the ones pictured, but they were not of the same Indian flavor.
Side note: accessories are more of an Italian fashion thing, not French.
More examples of what the Paris girls are into! There was so much tight black fabric and flowing white in the city - I kind of miss it. Speaking of tightness,
there's Celio. This location's their flagship.
I bought this pair of "cowboy" button-up jeans, recommended to me because it's one of their more popular ones and I'm a US citizen.
And it was glorious (I staged the shot to give it a godly glow)! It's extremely comfortable, affordable (~$55), and tight around my thighs. That last part needs explaining: the story, or so it goes, is that jeans tightening around thighs give male legs the illusion of added muscle and smoothness, which is universally appreciated by women and some car salesmen. So that's cool.
I swear, this wasn't supposed to be so perverted, just an example of the black and white outfits dominating the subway.
Natsuki!
I saw nobody wearing outfits like these while there.
Likewise about men wearing polos. Popped collars, on the other hand? Oh yes.
This doesn't really back the theme, either, but I figure you ladies would like chocolate heels.
Here's some regular shoes. A common feature you see on French celebrities is the wearing of a bright pair of shoes that are on the side of the color spectrum opposing the top. The normal French girls aren't so bold at this point in time.
I sometimes dress in attire reminiscent of the first one here, but with longer pants. And more chains. I don't understand the bearing of skin above the ankles. Who is that for?
So sorry for the picture quality. The dresses here are cocktail party wear with belts.
I was told these outfits for men were coordinated by women.
Gee gee gee gee baby baby baby.
Fluide.G is a magazine filled with comics and articles for women, which I purchased by accident. I was like, "Oh hey. Comics. I think I'll buy this." The content was funny and attractive enough for my tastes, so I do not regret the decision. The magazine is headed by one Madame.G, who is Asian, and is stocked with comics in the nouvelle manga style, which tries to capture the daily life setting seen so common in anime (but with a -dare I say?- French twist) and uses anime expressions. Submissions include work from people like Pixar story artist Bill Presing, Japanese mangaka and mascot fetishists Takara and Kikou, super cute Madeleine Martin, and others.
The magazine is pretty sexy. So much so that I was convinced it wasn't a ladies' mag until after I read the articles. So much for that stereotype about casual sexuality.
The cover for the June issue. If you do a Google Image search for this title, you can see this one, with its Wonder Woman and talk of lesbians, is tame compared to other issue covers.
Those cute mascots by Takara and Kikou are obscene. They serve as the editors' mouthpieces and end up doing self-blowjobs and other crap, because that is what we all expect from chibis. They use lots of visual gags and self-referential humor.
Blondie is asking Brunette if she's a lesbian, judging just by appearance. Bru is defensive.
Blondie then flashes Bru, confirming that she is indeed a lesbian. This is connected to:
...an article about lesbians taking over. Included is a list of signs of how this is happening, but also why it is completely OK. Check-out reason 6.
A typology of lesbians with tongue-in-cheek examples is included for readers to see which one they might be. The art was done by Arthur de Pins, of Geraldine fame.
Ohoho. They're bringing back full-coverage underwear. That's cool. Know what else is cool? Star Wars.
A Touhou cosplay in a field of vibrators, opposite a page of candy. Sure, why not?
Recipes for escargot, exercise techniques for tennis players, you know, usual items. The music section consisted of that one page, with the topic for the month being Asian pop.
No mag these days can go without an internet section. Perhaps because of the major Asian pop culture influence in this, I was not surprised to see a link to a Gothic Lolita blog.
I love Madeleine Martin's work! She uses a mix of manga and Adventure Time!
The comic on the left is about a woman being being chastised by the internet on her search on abortion.
Her comics are based on real life events, with heavy use of Scrubs-style imagination spots.
Abortion girl just can't get a break. Her doctor plows through a series of compliments of her unborn baby. That's a dangerous psychological guilt ploy.
Here's the anthology the preceding's featured in. The theme is fighting peer pressure and the biological imperative to have children.
I think you can say Fluide.G is basically Cosmopolitan with twice the casual sexiness, and more comics.
This will all be reviewed in a more in-depth way in my de-Frenchification rant later in the week.
I went to Champs-Elysees, one of the most fabulous places in the world, to ask on behalf of the women back home: What are French girls into today? Answer: American-inspired stuff.
I just had to take this shot. I believe it is representative of who the modern French are. And look at the outfits! A redhead in a bubble jacket with knee-length skirt, an Asian lady with ♥headphones♥ and stilettos, an older Arabic woman in leather and a jean skirt with a little tyke in hearts, a [cut-off] blonde woman in a brown top over a dress shirt and slacks, and a brunette walking a dog in Converse, letting her tank peek out of her jacket. All in front of a yogurt place and shoe shop.
Taken at one of Champs-Elysees' many malls. I'm loving the coat and shorts look. I also like the hair parted over one eye. Probably because I'm so accustomed to seeing it on women in California.
I don't think I have to go over the versatility of the little black dress.
Louis Vuitton HQ.
Here's a bunch of people getting angry with the flagship's early close.
So I came back later, just to check it out. I was given a proposition by a relative to get a $2,500 bag, to which I responded emphatically with a negative statement.
The building was surprisingly small, its products spread across multiple cramped floors with security styled after the MiB. Photography was not allowed. Oops.
When asked why there weren't many people in such a high profile place, one gets lots of responses along the lines of, "Only tourists go here," or "The locals already got their take, so don't come anymore." I for one never really cared for LV stuff, and couldn't find anything of value for myself, save a silver watch that cost more than I had in my checkings account.
This has nothing to do with the theme. I just like Sacha Baron Cohen.
There's been a revival of 80's inspired clothing like the outfit to the left. I don't think it's going well for women, but the French boys seemed to accept it.
I saw two displays of this stuff, once near my apartment and then again at mall 26. I saw a few women wearing shard necklaces like the ones pictured, but they were not of the same Indian flavor.
Side note: accessories are more of an Italian fashion thing, not French.
More examples of what the Paris girls are into! There was so much tight black fabric and flowing white in the city - I kind of miss it. Speaking of tightness,
there's Celio. This location's their flagship.
I bought this pair of "cowboy" button-up jeans, recommended to me because it's one of their more popular ones and I'm a US citizen.
And it was glorious (I staged the shot to give it a godly glow)! It's extremely comfortable, affordable (~$55), and tight around my thighs. That last part needs explaining: the story, or so it goes, is that jeans tightening around thighs give male legs the illusion of added muscle and smoothness, which is universally appreciated by women and some car salesmen. So that's cool.
I swear, this wasn't supposed to be so perverted, just an example of the black and white outfits dominating the subway.
Natsuki!
I saw nobody wearing outfits like these while there.
Likewise about men wearing polos. Popped collars, on the other hand? Oh yes.
This doesn't really back the theme, either, but I figure you ladies would like chocolate heels.
Here's some regular shoes. A common feature you see on French celebrities is the wearing of a bright pair of shoes that are on the side of the color spectrum opposing the top. The normal French girls aren't so bold at this point in time.
I sometimes dress in attire reminiscent of the first one here, but with longer pants. And more chains. I don't understand the bearing of skin above the ankles. Who is that for?
So sorry for the picture quality. The dresses here are cocktail party wear with belts.
I was told these outfits for men were coordinated by women.
Gee gee gee gee baby baby baby.
Fluide.G is a magazine filled with comics and articles for women, which I purchased by accident. I was like, "Oh hey. Comics. I think I'll buy this." The content was funny and attractive enough for my tastes, so I do not regret the decision. The magazine is headed by one Madame.G, who is Asian, and is stocked with comics in the nouvelle manga style, which tries to capture the daily life setting seen so common in anime (but with a -dare I say?- French twist) and uses anime expressions. Submissions include work from people like Pixar story artist Bill Presing, Japanese mangaka and mascot fetishists Takara and Kikou, super cute Madeleine Martin, and others.
The magazine is pretty sexy. So much so that I was convinced it wasn't a ladies' mag until after I read the articles. So much for that stereotype about casual sexuality.
The cover for the June issue. If you do a Google Image search for this title, you can see this one, with its Wonder Woman and talk of lesbians, is tame compared to other issue covers.
Those cute mascots by Takara and Kikou are obscene. They serve as the editors' mouthpieces and end up doing self-blowjobs and other crap, because that is what we all expect from chibis. They use lots of visual gags and self-referential humor.
Blondie is asking Brunette if she's a lesbian, judging just by appearance. Bru is defensive.
Blondie then flashes Bru, confirming that she is indeed a lesbian. This is connected to:
...an article about lesbians taking over. Included is a list of signs of how this is happening, but also why it is completely OK. Check-out reason 6.
A typology of lesbians with tongue-in-cheek examples is included for readers to see which one they might be. The art was done by Arthur de Pins, of Geraldine fame.
Ohoho. They're bringing back full-coverage underwear. That's cool. Know what else is cool? Star Wars.
A Touhou cosplay in a field of vibrators, opposite a page of candy. Sure, why not?
Recipes for escargot, exercise techniques for tennis players, you know, usual items. The music section consisted of that one page, with the topic for the month being Asian pop.
No mag these days can go without an internet section. Perhaps because of the major Asian pop culture influence in this, I was not surprised to see a link to a Gothic Lolita blog.
I love Madeleine Martin's work! She uses a mix of manga and Adventure Time!
The comic on the left is about a woman being being chastised by the internet on her search on abortion.
Her comics are based on real life events, with heavy use of Scrubs-style imagination spots.
Abortion girl just can't get a break. Her doctor plows through a series of compliments of her unborn baby. That's a dangerous psychological guilt ploy.
Here's the anthology the preceding's featured in. The theme is fighting peer pressure and the biological imperative to have children.
I think you can say Fluide.G is basically Cosmopolitan with twice the casual sexiness, and more comics.
This will all be reviewed in a more in-depth way in my de-Frenchification rant later in the week.