La Coquette

?Today is my last day in the office before heading to New York for a few days to visit my sister (she's studying fashion design at Parsons and ready to collapse from final projects and studio night...

I’ve been meaning to show you my articles from the Fall issue of Chicago Fashion, which has been out for a few months now.? (Oh, lax me.)I have an article on Audrey Fosse (she founded HomeMade Pi...

Eliza Frye has a wicked and delightful graphic story in Narrative, giving her leading lady a Madame X-like profile, and with it a somewhat Madame X-like story. (No, Madame X was not murdered -- j...

?... belongs to Carole Benazet of Département Féminin.It was always a fantasy of mine, as a kid, that someday I would put on suits and go on business trips. Now, of course, nothing sounds more appa...

Have I mentioned that my aunt, Marie-Line Fourmont, who has worked on the farm practically every day since she married my uncle, runs a gorgeous household, does the bookkeeping, cooks meals that ...

The day after the election, I had a divine lunch (potimarron soup and pavé de saumon) with Carole from Département Féminin at the newly opened Rose Bakery outpost in the Marais, and guess who was s...

There’s
this ironic, ahead of its time Serge Gainsbourg song,En relisant ta lettre, in which he coldly points out each grammatical error in a desperate letter
from his lover. I was reminded of Gain...

Emails I sent to my friend Cassi the other day:"We should have dinner at Le Coin de Verre."A few minutes later…"I mean Le Pré Verre!"And then, a few minutes later…."I mean Le Verre Volé!"

If this video was a fish, it would still be ALIVE. It's super fresh! And the show was super lovely! Don't forget to please check out my blog at Chicago mag for the full report. Bonne nuit les petit...

Try not to smile. Just try.
Lanvin Finale S09 from coquette on Vimeo.
I know, I know, everyone loves Lanvin.
It's probably the show I look forward to the most, of all the shows, in all the citie...