I got Chanel, Keiko’s Chanel.

A product of the Chanel + Colette Mashup – that featured artist Fafi.

This woman was in a crowd of fashionable people on the streets of Paris and her Fafi customized Chanel handbag did its duty; it stood out.

photo copyright Y.Francis

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I walked into what used to be an old garage space now made new to house the limited installation of Chanel pieces at Colette as well as young emerging designers curated by Colette. Well known artist Fafi was in the house customizing bags, and a stiff set of security guards to make sure there weren’t any photos taken inside.

But , alas, here is what I captured from the outside. P.S. I love that the wall graffiti said “Big Up Chanel”…Jamaican vernacular gone mass-luxe?

Today was less packed than two nights ago, when I rode by and saw a queue of people waiting in the cold to get inside.

There it was in between “Booze, BBQ & Blues” and some forgettable pop sketch book on everyday buys ( this last one really had me thinking maybe I too can make money writing about interesting but forgettable stuff? You know like “Life in Paris- Frustrations of a Foreigner” it’ll be about daily observations and funny frustrations.What do you think?

Anyways back to The Selby. Gawd! that book made me really interested about the way that real creative interesting type people live and made me feel great about my decorating abilities , which by the way is just about zero. Even though i drool at deco blogs and miss my monthly Domino Mag, let’s just say which all my efforts, at best I keep a clean apartment and not trying to trip over my kids toys and my husband’s camera equipment!

image from The Selby Blog.
Where the heck do these people get they’re obsessive collections from?

Seriously I’m now going to become a hermit and start collecting things ( other than shoes which doesn’t really count because everybody’s got those!).

I think I’m now addicted to stuff like The Selby, because it just makes me feel good that even though I’ll probably  never make it in AD nor Elle Decor there’s always hope for me in The Selby!

Coincidentally, I just found out my fave NYC blog Refinery29 did an amazing funny post on getting shot by The Selby.

The kicks are a completely monochrome dedication to the French pastry delight thats so popular right now in the US (which coincidentally is funny because as my friend Jess just pointed out Cupcake shops are popping up here in Paris) in colors such as raspberry and pistachio.

The Nike Air Royal Mid Macarons Pack release date is set for April 1st at Paris’s Colette.

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www.colette.fr

213 Rue Saint-Honoré
75001 Paris, France
01 55 35 33 90

And in the middle of taking photos one of the guys told me that wasn’t allowed – opps sorry! WTF…

Well here’s what I got before I got shut down.