Paris Silhouettes

 Silhouettes are an integral feature of French graphics.
You can't miss them.

 Silhouetted French bulldog as window decor.

 Signs for La Grande Epicerie are almost illegible but stunning none the less.

 French children get a good dollop of sophisticated graphics on their mother's knee. This ABC book of onomatopoeia (snif, ouf, miam, woofs) could not be more witty.

 A children's hair salon gets the black and white treatment.

 Inside Bonton's childrens store more graphic treatments.

 A kids eyeglass shop, Lafont pour les Enfants display.

 Clin d'oeil/wink of the eye lunette shop sign.

 No wonder the French like American artist Alex Katz' artwork.

 Viewers at the exhibit look like they hopped out of a painting.

 Silhouettes cover a building in a state of la restauration/repair or under construction

 L'homme des affairs blends right in.

 An older French girl toute en noire.

 This puff of a white dog matches older French Girl's white puffy hair.

 Silhouette ballerinas on the bus.

A chocolate bombe makes a delicious silhouette indeed.

Guerlain - Petite Robe Noire

 This is 'Shanghai' much loved Parisian pet.

 His Parisian mom, Pascale, contacted me for a meetup to commission two pet portraits.

 Shanghai lives in the classy 7th arrondissement so naturalment he wanted to be painted by Boulangerie Secco.

 Shanghai eats macarons when no dog biscuits are handy.

 After our photo session we went inside Maison Guerlain.

 The special La Petite Robe Noire exhibition by graphic designers, Kunzel and Deygas was on.

 Have you seen their video for La Petite Robe Noire?

 It's Guerlain's nouveau addition to the perfume collection (formerly only available to private clients). I promise you it's delicious. I loved seeing the designer's work-in-progress sketches.

 If you'd love to have a super GLAM photo portrait of yourself shot in Paris, fabulous fashion photographer, Carla Coulson is now doing private portraits.

 You can see before/afters here thanks to a little help from makeup/hair/lighting artists + Carla's arts.

 Carla is shooting her divine portrait sessions at the tres luxe Hotel Lancaster on the Champs-Elysees. I peeked in just before my pet meetup.

 A friend is going to Shanghai (China) for 2 weeks so I'll be Paris house-sitting end of April-beginning of May. I hope to catch a glam photo shoot with Carla (croise les doigts/cross the fingers). If you'd like a glam portrait of your pet painted in Paris do email me.

HAPPY HOLIDAY PBERS!

Assignment Printemps

Yesterday I got a last minute 'Spring' assignment... From Parisien online perfume company I work for... I started tearing out hairs and then it came to me...

Put Spring flowers inside perfume bottles.

Voila!

Tomorrow I'll be hunting for Spring for real...

I promise not to miss a trick...

I'll be checking all the Paris vitrines/windows...

Guerlain's vitrines are full of fleurs of a sort...

Yesterday Peter's Paris showed the burgeoning Printemps...

Manon 21 created these witty printed flowers in pots...

I'm off to the pool for my usual swim-before-traveling. I'm almost all packed. In Paris I would LOVE to go to this Aquabike classe at La Maison Popincourt. On verra bien (one can always hope...)

BONJOUR PARIS SPRING!