After the two day trip to Stockholm (and all the crazy adventures of it), Frederick and I were on a plane to PARIS! I was so excited to finally be able to go to the city of my dreams!! Out of all the places I have been, I can honestly say that Paris is my favorite. It just has so much charm– cute little shops, BAKERIES, cafés, breathtaking architecture… I suddenly wished that I could live here… speak French, get espressos, and chat away my day wearing nothing but black.
As I was getting my hair done the other day, I was flipping through the pages of Vogue May 2014 issue. At the very end of it my attention was caught by an article about the Italian fashion designer, Giambattista Valli. Well the article wasn’t really about him but about his innovative Parisian apartment. It was not one of those “tour my apartment” articles that many of the designers, and other celebrities have. This article was different. It was very inspiring. It was like looking into the artist’s mind or something like that. His apartment is very traditional yet very modern… He does it by having the “shell” which is an old Parisian apartment (high ceilings with Victorian molding all around) and adding modern fun and colorful pieces to it. To me his apartment is like an artist’s sketchbook. It has messy sketches, ideas, daily thoughts, maybe a photograph of something recorded in it. It’s never the same, each page does not match to the page previous to it. This kind of sketchbook catches your attention. Not everything in that kind of sketchbook will be understood but it doesn’t have to be…