Sarah's FuFu Blog

Good Ole Days…… Vintage trends!!!

Here are some behind the scene pics from my photo shoot.

It was great working with CC from Studio Hart, Ashley the make up artist and

my beautiful model Tina Akyaa!

Paris……

Back in July my boss told me that I had to prepare because I will be going to Paris, France for four days, when she told me this my mind scrambled for a bit because I have never been to Europe and Paris has always been for me the epicenter of fashion. Here I am finally getting the opportunity to shop, eat French cuisine and take in the best architecture that I have ever seen in my life.

My boss Shannon and I shopped all over Paris, Des Halles, Galleries Lafayette, Printemps, Citadel, Le Bon Marché and all of the cool boutiques surrounding Le Bon Marché and the hotel that we were staying at.

I noticed a few cool trends while shopping in Paris. It is definitely all about prints small, neat and repeat vintage prints also ornate paisley prints inspired from Etro’s current Fall collection. While shopping at Le Bon Marché I also noticed this beautiful felt cape coat from Comme des Garçons, made with structure and volume, as I mentioned in my previous post a couple of weeks ago, garments made with voluminous details would be a trend for the Fall . Of course the Isabel Marant wedge heel sneakers was every where! Santa Fe and Aztec influenced prints were on army jackets, hand beaded on bags and printed on shoes. At Printemps I also had the chance to see Yayoi Kusama for Louis Vuitton and I absolutely fell in love with her dot prints. I also went to Citadel and I love this store it reminds me of Urban Outfitters but better! cool kicks, every cool brand that you could think of including The Kooples and my favorite tee the Rick Rozay Ross panda tee.

I gathered up my courage and took the Metro (train)  and went to the Eiffel Tower. I met a beautiful woman from England by the name of Jill who took a pic of me in front of the tower, I was also able to squeeze in souvenir shopping that was reasonably priced especially since the dollar has been taking a huge beating against the Euro.

Finally my last day in Paris I had a chance to go to the Musée de l’Orangerie to look at the works of Renoir, Picasso, Cézanne, Matisse, Utrillo, Monet and other amazing artists from Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume collection. When people come to Paris they usually go to the Louvre, but it was way to crowded and I really wanted to see Monet and the greats so it was worth it.

I did not get the chance to go fabric shopping but that would be the first thing I do when I come back to Paris and not for work.

Paris is such a beautiful and an amazing city I have already told my husband that I want to live here… as realty sets in you can not live here without learning the language, tragic but true. Here are a few pics that I took while in Paris capturing everything that I could from this awe dropping city.

Friday morning my husband, mother, son and I loaded up the truck and drove four hours down to Alexandria, Virginia for the Girls Night Out event Friday night. The event was amazing. I met a lot of women from the DMV area that were absolutely cool and positive.

Girls Night Out was held in the Westin Hotel in the in the heart of the downtown area of Alexandria and Jerrise Spencer put together such an amazing event I told her that I would definitely come again,  Here are a few pics!

XXXOOOO

Peace