8.31.2012
To our Indian Summer !
On a fashion perspective is super confusing... While the rest of the world is entering in Fall, in SF we are expecting our Summer ! September and October are our hottest months of the year! It translates in less fog and more sun and fun! Our Indian summer is at the door ! Welcome!
8.28.2012
A tube of red lipstick.
The picture below is from Photographer Alyson Fox’s project, "A Shade Of Red", a book with more than 100 photographs of women - old women, young women, friends, family members, co-workers, sisters and grandmothers - with one common thread: all were photographed wearing the same shade of red lipstick.
Some of the women had never worn red lipstick before, and many had never been professionally photographed before. Alyson, who is based in Austin, Texas, found most of her subjects through word of mouth, as news of the project spread...
I retain that creativity comes from everywhere and a simple red lipstick tube can tell big stories!
I've always believed in red lipstick.
Some of the women had never worn red lipstick before, and many had never been professionally photographed before. Alyson, who is based in Austin, Texas, found most of her subjects through word of mouth, as news of the project spread...
I retain that creativity comes from everywhere and a simple red lipstick tube can tell big stories!
I've always believed in red lipstick.
8.23.2012
Orchids. Love. Shop.
2 years, 2 months. Just like the shop. They are blooming synchro.
It's a really good sign.
It's a really good sign.
8.19.2012
Pellicule etc.
Paris, one year ago now.
August 2011.
In those photos, I'm the fashion designer turned into model and Jean Mark Nourel aka JeanMouk is the passionate Paris based photographer behind the lens.
I've received tons of replies from posting my "fashion photographer wanted " ad on Craigslist Paris a year ago. Decision made and couple of days after I was on a meeting in St Germain talking photography ! It was on one of those "rainy but not so rainy" , late August afternoons in Paris and we discussed about my Parisian style photography project in a cafe by the fountain St Michel. About an hour after, we had our locations in mind, theme + team put together and ideas fusing around ! A very promising photo shoot was scheduled and different looks were lined up! Meeting point : Le Pont des Arts/ Ending spot : Montmartre. Perfect!
I only had few days left in Paris and absolutely wanted to capture the most of me hanging out in Paris wearing my designs...the photo shoot turned out to be the perfect timing to say goodbye to the city ~in style ! It was spontaneous and oh so much fun! I wish I had more time: I remember us running in between spots after the sun ! As you may know how lighting is important in photo! It was Absolutely -with a capital A- great to work with Jean Mark. Him and his girlfriend who assisted him during the entire shoot process knows Paris well and drove me around my favorite spots to shoot ! Jean Mark paid attention to details and works like a pro! If you make it to Paris and are looking for a photographer say hello ! Tell him you've heard about his fantastic photo shoot with Aline from Aline's Closet San Francisco and he'll make room in his busy schedule to shoot with you! I was so exited when I've received all the pictures a week after ( I was back in San Fran! ) and some of them he edited them, so they'll be editorial ready! I wanted to share this experience because Jean Mark followed up with me 2 weeks ago to check if I was back in Paris and see how things were going ! I found it super sharp to follow up with a client a year after and that adds to the whole experience ! A+
Jean Mark et Merci !
Big + = he is fluent in English! :)
Contact: Jean-Mark Noure
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Discover his photography work at : www.jeanmouk.com
August 2011.
In those photos, I'm the fashion designer turned into model and Jean Mark Nourel aka JeanMouk is the passionate Paris based photographer behind the lens.
I've received tons of replies from posting my "fashion photographer wanted " ad on Craigslist Paris a year ago. Decision made and couple of days after I was on a meeting in St Germain talking photography ! It was on one of those "rainy but not so rainy" , late August afternoons in Paris and we discussed about my Parisian style photography project in a cafe by the fountain St Michel. About an hour after, we had our locations in mind, theme + team put together and ideas fusing around ! A very promising photo shoot was scheduled and different looks were lined up! Meeting point : Le Pont des Arts/ Ending spot : Montmartre. Perfect!
I only had few days left in Paris and absolutely wanted to capture the most of me hanging out in Paris wearing my designs...the photo shoot turned out to be the perfect timing to say goodbye to the city ~in style ! It was spontaneous and oh so much fun! I wish I had more time: I remember us running in between spots after the sun ! As you may know how lighting is important in photo! It was Absolutely -with a capital A- great to work with Jean Mark. Him and his girlfriend who assisted him during the entire shoot process knows Paris well and drove me around my favorite spots to shoot ! Jean Mark paid attention to details and works like a pro! If you make it to Paris and are looking for a photographer say hello ! Tell him you've heard about his fantastic photo shoot with Aline from Aline's Closet San Francisco and he'll make room in his busy schedule to shoot with you! I was so exited when I've received all the pictures a week after ( I was back in San Fran! ) and some of them he edited them, so they'll be editorial ready! I wanted to share this experience because Jean Mark followed up with me 2 weeks ago to check if I was back in Paris and see how things were going ! I found it super sharp to follow up with a client a year after and that adds to the whole experience ! A+
Jean Mark et Merci !
Big + = he is fluent in English! :)
Contact: Jean-Mark Noure
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Discover his photography work at : www.jeanmouk.com
8.17.2012
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8.05.2012
Once Upon A French Pop Time : ALINE.
If you listen to French indie pop you may have heard about 4 boys doing music under the name Young Michelin or YM. If not, that's fine. Cause anyway they changed their name earlier this year and if there is only one name to remember now is Aline...;) No kidding. Yes! This band and I share the same name!
I've been listening to Hirondelles ( Swallows in english) and Je bois et puis je danse ( I drink and then I dance in english). Those songs take me back to France calling a charming airiness, young tenderness , and party time again and again ! I love the mix melodies in the record and the cute illustration on their record cover is signed Martin Etienne. I know you are wondering how French pop sounds, so this one is for you. It's ok to feel the music without understanding anything at all :) I hear you, been there before- just the other way. At least you have a video! Have a look at Hirondelles. I love the vibrant rythm of this song! and isn't the two girls in their oversized sweaters so lovely ?
Singing and dancing Aline. xoxo
Moi j'ai deux hirondelles...
8.01.2012
The carpenter and the tea table.
~To whom I met and haven't met yet.
A skilled carpenter once created a unique tea-table.
He was dreaming of a tea table most convenient for a small space, a table that could be used as a serving-table too... He wanted to have two drawers, used for holding spoons or flat silver or as trays for serving. In his vision, the lower compartment was open on opposite sides, the other two sides being closed. The drawers would extend through, with pull-knobs on both ends. The leaves, hinged and fold.
When in use, the leaves could be held up by swiveled arms secured to the under side.
He kept on saying he wanted to create a tea table with the unusual purpose of making people happy. He wanted to give them a unique and useful piece they'll be happy to own and cherish. He wanted his tea table to be a conversation starting piece, whenever people will use it, they'll feel connected to each other and warm, at least for as long as can last a regular cup of tea...
So, one day he decided to draw his idea and put it on a sketch. Once satisfied with the sketch he then went all around the world in hunt of the finest materials to build his unique tea table. In india he find the most beautiful ornaments, in Benin, west Africa he encountered the finest and most colorful woods he ever seen and in France, he found the perfect silver.
When came the construction time he built his tea table with great care and with the warmest glow inside. Anybody who could find him working on his table reported him smiling and looking so happy ! Soon in his neighborhood and beyond he was knows as the happier hard working carpenter !
A very curious person wanted to know what could possibly makes this happy hard working carpenter so happy at work !
The carpenter replied that his tea table was actually not made of wood or silver ... But of souvenirs. It was all the memories, stories, discoveries and wonderful people encountered while hunting for the perfect materials that made the carpenter happy. His piece represented both places and people he met and haven't met yet...all the places and people that lives in him.
Once the construction was completed, he made sure he sent to all the wonderful people he met on his way, an invitation to see his work. His invitation card witch was his initial sketch design went out in 20 different countries!
He also invited everyone in his neighborhood and the people that showed interest in his work, wood, furnitures, and all tea lovers !
They'll all brought teas from all around the world and gathered around the tea table. The celebration of his new construction was a success ! Everyone spent time drinking a lot of tea and well, some shared few tears of joy! The carpenter with the people he met and haven't met yet celebrated in memories of feeling felt and of many more to come.
The beauty of life sometimes happens around few cups of tea, just sitting there on a (not so) ordinary tea table...
~Thanks for reading my tale about a carpenter who is also a happy hard working carpenter and a tea table, that is a serving table too.
Aline
A skilled carpenter once created a unique tea-table.
He was dreaming of a tea table most convenient for a small space, a table that could be used as a serving-table too... He wanted to have two drawers, used for holding spoons or flat silver or as trays for serving. In his vision, the lower compartment was open on opposite sides, the other two sides being closed. The drawers would extend through, with pull-knobs on both ends. The leaves, hinged and fold.
When in use, the leaves could be held up by swiveled arms secured to the under side.
He kept on saying he wanted to create a tea table with the unusual purpose of making people happy. He wanted to give them a unique and useful piece they'll be happy to own and cherish. He wanted his tea table to be a conversation starting piece, whenever people will use it, they'll feel connected to each other and warm, at least for as long as can last a regular cup of tea...
So, one day he decided to draw his idea and put it on a sketch. Once satisfied with the sketch he then went all around the world in hunt of the finest materials to build his unique tea table. In india he find the most beautiful ornaments, in Benin, west Africa he encountered the finest and most colorful woods he ever seen and in France, he found the perfect silver.
When came the construction time he built his tea table with great care and with the warmest glow inside. Anybody who could find him working on his table reported him smiling and looking so happy ! Soon in his neighborhood and beyond he was knows as the happier hard working carpenter !
A very curious person wanted to know what could possibly makes this happy hard working carpenter so happy at work !
The carpenter replied that his tea table was actually not made of wood or silver ... But of souvenirs. It was all the memories, stories, discoveries and wonderful people encountered while hunting for the perfect materials that made the carpenter happy. His piece represented both places and people he met and haven't met yet...all the places and people that lives in him.
Once the construction was completed, he made sure he sent to all the wonderful people he met on his way, an invitation to see his work. His invitation card witch was his initial sketch design went out in 20 different countries!
He also invited everyone in his neighborhood and the people that showed interest in his work, wood, furnitures, and all tea lovers !
They'll all brought teas from all around the world and gathered around the tea table. The celebration of his new construction was a success ! Everyone spent time drinking a lot of tea and well, some shared few tears of joy! The carpenter with the people he met and haven't met yet celebrated in memories of feeling felt and of many more to come.
The beauty of life sometimes happens around few cups of tea, just sitting there on a (not so) ordinary tea table...
~Thanks for reading my tale about a carpenter who is also a happy hard working carpenter and a tea table, that is a serving table too.
Aline
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