PARISIENNE is the essence of a woman who knows how to love and how to live. At the heart of YSL’s DNA is the empowerment of women, and true to this we believe that any woman, anywhere, can adopt the values of being a PARISIENNE. To celebrate the launch of PARISIENNE, and to encourage women to find their “inner PARISIENNE”, we have created www.ExperienceParisienne.com, where the essence of a woman and her PARISIENNE experience is shared with other women.
In this spirit, YSL is sending five renowned bloggers on a journey around the country to discover and reveal their very own PARISIENNE experiences in New York City, Miami, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Yves Saint Laurent has chosen an ensemble of women with passions for beauty, art, design, music, fashion and food to create a travel diary of their trip. Stay tuned here to read articles, see photos and follow the women on their journey.
Anna Karina was filmmaker Jean Luc Godard’s muse, and it’s not hard to understand why. With alabaster skin, dark hair and mile-long eyelashes, the Danish-born actress is a serious stunner. In Godard’s 1961 French New Wave film A Woman is a Woman, Karina danced around in tomato red tights, so I picked up my very own pair from American Apparel in Los Angeles. Tres chic, non?
(Photo by Anna Wolf)
Today, we headed from New York to Miami, and, as I packed my bags, I channeled my favorite French movies…
Clockwise from top left:
* A striped cotton shirt from Normandy, like Jean Seberg wore in Breathless.
* A cashmere headband, inspired by the gorgeous Brigitte Bardot in Contempt.
* Classic black leggings.
* PARISIENNE perfume, naturally.
* Serge Gainsbourg’s sexy tunes.
* Bensimon sneakers (the French girl’s Converse).
* A Rhodia notepad, from Alsace, France, for scribblings.
* Julia Child’s memoir, My Life in France.
* And a pretty red bra, ’cause you never know.
