Paris is the pyramid of romance. I think Americans are a lot to blame, since in all their movies and tv shows, the protagonists go off to Paris to forget, to fall in love, to find the true meaning of life.
Before i went off to Paris the previous month, i happened to see the latest film of Woody Allen. I love Allen for so many reasons that i'm sure i'd bore you to death -since surely they are more or less the same ones with all the rest of the world that adores him.
In any case. Paris. The city that is equal to love, romance, good wine and food and of course fashion.. and i thought really? hmmm...I did not buy it the first time i was there. I did not buy it the second time i was there. Well the second time was an awful time i will unfortunately remember for the rest of my life but lets not get into that. So. Paris. How will i learn to love Paris now that my love is there as the song says? How will i make Paris a city i fall in love with?
Well Paris is a city that in my opinion needs time to win you over. You find hidden treasures, shops, streets or moments simply by walking around. It is not as obvious as London or New York. It really doesnt want to flash its beauty, just like any other really beautiful chic aristocrat. No flashiness! That is for sure.
So i will be patient with lady Paris. I haven't discovered much of Paris yet, but hopefully in the coming time i will be re-visiting it and i will know more about it.
Well... i just want to talk about a very obvious place in Paris that for me was exquisite and quite important and i will never forget it.I was waiting in that garden for about 20 minutes and they were definitive 20 minutes when you wait in order to make up your mind. When you think you made up your mind and then everything changes when he arrives...
Its the garden of Les Tuileries, which is mostly known for its photoshoots of fashion "it girls" going to Paris fashion week, to most of you.
It is a great place to relax and re-center and it is reminiscant of old times..maybe because i have so many art works that depict it in mind.
Well the garden was created by Catherine of the Medicis when she commissioned a landscape architect from Florence, Bernard de Carnesse to build an Italian Renaissance garden with fountains, a labyrinth and a grotto.she wanted something to remind her of home..i can relate to that!
Of course it became a public garden after the French Revolution, and all the important romantics, impressionists etc. painted something that has to do with the Tuileries.
In the Tuileries there is also the museum Jeu De Paume, which basically used to host tennis games in the old days and now it is a great place to see cutting edge contemporary art..now and until february it is hosting the most amazing Diane Arbus retrospective i saw.
So that is my Paris thoughts numero un.
Hopefully many more will come..
Before i went off to Paris the previous month, i happened to see the latest film of Woody Allen. I love Allen for so many reasons that i'm sure i'd bore you to death -since surely they are more or less the same ones with all the rest of the world that adores him.
In any case. Paris. The city that is equal to love, romance, good wine and food and of course fashion.. and i thought really? hmmm...I did not buy it the first time i was there. I did not buy it the second time i was there. Well the second time was an awful time i will unfortunately remember for the rest of my life but lets not get into that. So. Paris. How will i learn to love Paris now that my love is there as the song says? How will i make Paris a city i fall in love with?
Well Paris is a city that in my opinion needs time to win you over. You find hidden treasures, shops, streets or moments simply by walking around. It is not as obvious as London or New York. It really doesnt want to flash its beauty, just like any other really beautiful chic aristocrat. No flashiness! That is for sure.
So i will be patient with lady Paris. I haven't discovered much of Paris yet, but hopefully in the coming time i will be re-visiting it and i will know more about it.
Well... i just want to talk about a very obvious place in Paris that for me was exquisite and quite important and i will never forget it.I was waiting in that garden for about 20 minutes and they were definitive 20 minutes when you wait in order to make up your mind. When you think you made up your mind and then everything changes when he arrives...
Its the garden of Les Tuileries, which is mostly known for its photoshoots of fashion "it girls" going to Paris fashion week, to most of you.
It is a great place to relax and re-center and it is reminiscant of old times..maybe because i have so many art works that depict it in mind.
Well the garden was created by Catherine of the Medicis when she commissioned a landscape architect from Florence, Bernard de Carnesse to build an Italian Renaissance garden with fountains, a labyrinth and a grotto.she wanted something to remind her of home..i can relate to that!
Of course it became a public garden after the French Revolution, and all the important romantics, impressionists etc. painted something that has to do with the Tuileries.
In the Tuileries there is also the museum Jeu De Paume, which basically used to host tennis games in the old days and now it is a great place to see cutting edge contemporary art..now and until february it is hosting the most amazing Diane Arbus retrospective i saw.
So that is my Paris thoughts numero un.
Hopefully many more will come..
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