From Paris with Love

I know it's been a while, but I have some decent excuses. Here's my favorite.

My dear friend L. and I went to Paris for a whirlwind weekend by ourselves, where the chit-chat was rivaled only by the surroundings. Some highlights:








Room service at Hotel Daniel. Their croque monsieur, which is hiding under that silver tray right there, is definitely on my top ten meals ever. It's criminally cheesy, and the bread is so good, it restores white bread's reputation in one bite.

I fell asleep that night in a cheese coma in my plush bathrobe, with Sandra Bullock's "The Proposal" in the background. Dirty little secret: I wholly enjoyed it.




Colette, of course. They won't let you take any snaps in store - I think the tourists would be going hog wild, and rival stores would be knocking off their VM treatments left and right - but I managed to get one through the glass.

This guy above is contemplating some Bape stuff. I went in and contemplated some Uslu Airlines creamy gold colored eye shadow and a threadlike golden bracelet. I left with neither, but the store is always inspiring just the same.




The Annick Goutal "counter" at Merci, the store no one can shut their trap about, and rightfully so. It sells interesting secondhand books, secondhand Marni, fresh new notebooks and art pencils, chic home accents, Annick Goutal fragrance and more.

About those Annick Goutal scents: I love the lab-like display of both classic and exclusive-to-Merci Annick Goutal scents. It's funny, because Annick Goutal is a line I've only seen sold in a very classic, elegant, parfumerie-like fashion, and this setup had more of a Le Labo vibe.






Bar Hemingway - heavy, cozy, men's clubby. Check pretension at the door, but definitely bring your wallet. The fact that they put a gorgeous white rose in my champagne cocktail made the tab easier to swallow.




Went to the Rodin Museum, which was closed the last time I went to Paris. The sculpture garden was fantastic, but it was this victory statue inside the museum that really did it for me. What power!