Paris When It Sizzles: Day One

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With the thermometer hovering close to 100 degrees, the overwhelming theme in Paris this weekend is the weather and keeping cool.  Couple the heat with the fact that the entire city just went on sale, and it’s not that easy to come up with any inspirational trends.

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There are almost no new collections in the stores, but I did manage to see a few sprouts of emerging fall color, mainly blue.

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Of greater interest was the very “french” take on eye candy that always manages to separate this style mecca from the pack.

french-eye-candyParisian firefighters beat the heat wearing short-shorts – French eye-candy!

My real purpose here is to work. The show starts today where I will spend three days (non-airconditioned!) scouting merchandise. Day one is always a jet lag induced walk about anyway. This one ended with a good French meal with old friends and colleagues. More tomorrow.

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(L to R) Jeanine Fajardo: SR. Intimates Designer and Merchandiser Komar,
Debby Gedney : President of Branded Intimates Komar
Patti Ficorilli: Senior Account Manager Intimate Apparel Invista, Ellen Lewis

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2 Discussion to this post

  1. Jean says:

    This post is so charming, interesting and entertaining Ellen. Great photos. Have a good, productive, enjoyable time there, moving around languidly in the heat I hope!

  2. kim ranieri says:

    Good times ahead for the week.

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