On a freezing sunday

During winter time the Brooklyn Flea Market takes place in an amazing old building in Downtown Brooklyn.
That's how I spent the most freezing day I had in a long time...

Be NaïS and spread the word

It's been a long time I didn't talk about my brand, NaïS. We are 2 frenchies working on that project, which is not a project anymore. It's a real company, YES!
So here is the first collection, Spring/Summer 2012, and you are the first lucky ones to see it!
Let me know what you think...

My fav places to eat in New York

First, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

As you know, I moved in New York 6 months ago now. So I start to have a list of a few places where I like to go to drink or eat... or both. Yes I am french, and it happens to be that we (frenchies) are pretty obsessed with food and drinks. Can't help it. So since we are in the "best of 2011" spirit, let me recap my 2011 coup de coeur.

First, BRUNCH at Kitchenette. Perfect when you wake up starving after noon. The french toasts are delicious and the cappuccino is a REAL cappuccino. I hope I will have time to come often and taste everything, because all the cakes seem fantastic.

COFFEE & WORK at Think coffee. Really cool place with a college vibe where you can drink good organic coffee and tea with fare trade certification. Not even more expensive than Starbucks, and with a way better environement to work. Very good playlist, wich is pretty important for me.

BAGELS  at Zucker's Bagels. Really small place but really good and fresh bagels. A lot of different type of fish and cream cheese. Best bagel so far!

SOULFOOD at Mama Ruth's. Well you must have heard about this typical South food restaurant in Harlem. They start with hot cornbread without asking anything, and the honey chicken is amazing... you must be a giant to finish the whole plate with two sides, but the mashed potatoes is so delicious that you eat it like a treat. Yummy!

AFRICAN FOOD at Meskerem. It was the first time I try Ethiopian food, and it is totally different from african food I usually eat in Paris. Really tasty, and the best way to do it is to share a bunch of different meals with friends.

A GLASS OF WINE at Ace Hotel. Trendy and cool place with an original interior design. Live music on sunday night. But it is really packed all the time...

SUMMER NIGHT at Union Pool Bar. Very Brooklyn type of place, with live music, Djs, and an outside space, just perfect to chill with friends.

Let me know what are your good places to go!

Buying displays can be creepy

Sometimes doing regular stuff makes you feel in another world... Like buying displays from a random warehouse in New Jersey.

Halloween Parade

I let you enjoy, there is no words... Or maybe one : TERRIFIC!

Daphné Guiness, more a collector than an icon

I must admit than I kinda have a problem with fashion icons. Exept Michael Jackson who really defined his own style and made it evoluate with the years, the concept of fashion icons is a joke for me.
For example, I don't think that Marylin Monroe was a "fashion" icon. I believe that she is an icon because she represents the 50' with a lifestyle and she had a tragic/amazing life at the same time. All of that make a person becoming an icon. Not just because she wears haute couture clothes .
When people ask me to choose an icon, I think immedialtely about Josephine Baker. Well, she representes for me the diversty, the controversion, the generosity, etc... 
So what I try to say is that real icons have an extraodinary life, personality, different believes, fight for something, represent a lifestyle or a period of time, have a tragic destiny. But how can we consider a star who just apply what her fashion advisor said as a fashion icon? 
This is where I want to talk about Daphne Guiness.


I went to the FIT museum to see the exhibit made out of the incredible looks owned by Daphne Guiness. What I really liked is how she consider the Haute Couture as art, and the exhibit showed really well this feeling.
It seems that she doesn't try to say "here is the best of the best", but more "this is what I consider as amazing, and I want to share it with you".
So she definitely has a collector type of approach, and I respect the person for that. All the press are defining this exhibit as a fashion icon exhibit, but I think that's deeper than that.
Fashion icon goes with a big part of ego-centric attitude, that we don't feel at all during this exhibit.
In terms of style, Guiness is for me the modern and Haute Couture version of Cruela Denfer, which I think is pretty cool ; )


Here is a few images you might like...

NaïS is everywhere!

Very Glossy, a really cool blog, and way more serious than mine, interviewed NaïS for their last "designer spotlight". Please check it out, and spread the word!

http://veryglossy.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/designer-spotlight-be-nais/

Be NaïS ; )