Le Tour de France...

After three hours of waiting, watching the never ending parade of sponsors drive by blasting techno music (I've come to lear that no event in Paris is complete without techno music playing at some point) Finally! It's a bird! It's a plane! NO! IT'S A HELICOPTER! THE CYCLISTS ARE ALMOST HERE! (note that in a week of cold and rainy, the day the tour comes it is sunny and warm. The sporting gods where looking out for Paris today). 

I found a prime viewing spot along Rue de Rivoli and the Tulleries gardens. No need to be elevated though, I was right along the guard rail. 

And as soon as you see them, they disappear again. Luckily I was along the final circuit, so they came by another 5 times. I was amazed at how fast they could travel all the way up Avenue des Champs-Élyesée and back to where I was...

... Just beyond the 1km marker. Lovely view of the corner next to the Louvre, and on the other end Place de la Concorde. They would come back on the other side of Tulleries, but you could tell when they were close from all the police motorcycles and helicopters. If you squint hard enough, or enlarge the picture, you can see them as they make the final lap. Overall it was an amazing day, and I was so glad I was finally able to watch it in person. 

Feu d'Artifice 14 juillet...

Happy Bastille Day!

S/S 2012 Menswear, Anna Dello Russo Style...

I know it has been a really long while since I have done my top picks from the runway shows. I figured I'd start it up again, especially now that I'm out of school and runway reviews are not an assignment. 

3.1 Phillip Lim

Ann Demeulemeester

Boris Bidjan Saberi

Damir Doma

Dior Homme

Givenchy

Hermès

Lanvin

Zion...

I could get used to this. 

Pont de l'Alma...

Pont de l'Alma is one of those places in Paris I pass by all the time on my way to other places, but rarely ever stop at. For some reason I have always had a very vivid memory of when Princess Diana died of this tunnel and the column divider wall down the middle. I have no idea why this is. A lot of friends live on this side of town so when we go out and take taxis they almost always have to go through this tunnel, and every time I think about what happened here as our taxi speeds along this narrow road. Also, random fact I learned when I stopped today to take this picture, but the liberty flame is the same scale as the one on the Statue of Liberty. It doesn't seem very big in person, and although I have never been to the Statue of Liberty, I always imagined that the flame would be bigger than this one. 

Waiting While The World Goes By...

So I've come to the conclusion that I don't take nearly enough pictures documenting my everyday life. Of course, now comes the time that I talk about how I want that to change, and that I will post a picture each day of something I did, and how it gives me the fun task of coming up with original names for pictures... then we wait and see how long I can do it before I get bored and go back to not blogging about anything... or how long I can go lugging around my big ol' camera before my back gives out... whichever comes first... 

Anywho, waiting for the bus to come and take me home at Porte de Saint-Cloud out in the boonies (or the 16th, I prefer boonies) where I was visiting a friend (lucky for them I'm a good friend for traveling all the way out there!). I've come to the conclusion that the metro is just to crowded for my taste, so I've started taking the bus everywhere I go. It's also a much more scenic way to travel around Paris, and you get to know your way around the city really well.

Rue de la Ferronnerie...

I'm pretty used to having my picture taken by street style bloggers, but normally it is something that happens only around the fashion weeks, while I'm in fashionable parts of town, doing fashionable things. Not today though. Literally walked out of my apartment building on my way to work, when up came the photographers to the french style blog WallDress. I'm quite flattered considering I threw on my trench for the impending rain, and clearly didn't have time to steam my shirt, but thanks for thinking I was looking stylish (or gothic with a lot of structure as they said [I take that as a big compliment]).