OMG!!! we're on cobrasnake

and its a pretty good photo of us too.  We went to the Colette blog party at Regine's and it was a lot fun.  We danced our butts off and of course when we sat down is when we had our photo taken.  Judy also got another pretty good lurker photo of Paris fashions man of the moment (Kanye West) as well as me getting my nails painted at the same time as the cobra snake.  For the rest of the CobraSnakes coverage of the party go here.

Judy is a stalker.

The day started when our friend came over and asked us to go to a fashion show with him.  What he didn't tell us was that it was literally the next door over from us which was pretty cool.  After the show we were jetted off to the beautiful Bourse building to see the newest mens collections at Tranoi.  M's Braque caught our eye with some really beautiful and unique Mens wear. Isaac Reina made some of the most gorgeous leather goods either of us had seen and their messenger bag was to die for.  Alfredo photographed some of the newest collection of Quai de Valmy, which was being celebrated at Colette later in the evening and we cut through the Palais Royal on our way over there.  We found the most gorgeous vintage store in the world and I had to pull Judy face from the window.  Colette was the place to be and all the whos who were there because among the Quai de Valmy collection on display the newest Thom Browne collection was also being premiered. We are big fans of Thom and it was such a pleasure to meet him.  We tried to play it cool and Judy was able to get some pretty lurky photos.   

Fashionistas

Mens week started today and we were invited to the Gaspard Yurkievich show.  We should have checked the flier the night before because when we realized that the show started at 12:30 it was already 12:20.  We ran to the metro and made it to our seats right before the show started.   We are big fans of Gaspard's and really liked the mens dresses paired with the leggings.  Unfortunately our photos didn't really come out too well.  We also attended a great discussion led by the former artistic director of Elle that featured some really great work that he did pre photoshop or any technologies that we have today.  It was a pretty inspirational day to say the least.

New look books

Today we were thrilled to be greeted by our brand new look books.  We think they look really good and we were assisted by a great team.  Alfredo Salazar took the photos,  Nestor Osuna handled the hair and make-up and Elsa Crafoord c/o Ford Models Europe was our gorgeous model.  The photos have also been added to our website so you can see all the rest there at www.pleasedressup.com  

Winter Wonderland

We know this is a little late but we wanted to share some of our photos from the past week or so in the snow. During our outing to the post office we walked through this very picturesque white winter land.  Even though we left our skis at home we still wanted to get some shots of the snow before it melted away.  And on a complete side note here is the perfect example of what not to wear to the BHV.    

Soldes Monstres

Every year in Paris January 7th marks the first day of a city wide holiday that lasts until February, this holiday is called Soldes and it is something that everybody in the world should experience just once.   Every clothing store in the city participates with 70-50% off everything and it is when every Parisian buys all of the clothes they have had their eyes on all season.   We didn't realize what was happening when we left our house and there were hordes of people in all the stores which are always empty, until our friend told us about the magic of soldes.  Of course this kind of mob mentality is very contagious and we definitely didn't want to be left out.  But where to start?  Grant still needed boots from when we first got here and we thought that would be a good guiding point.   Judy had a couple items on her wish list too so we decided to stop in Tsumori Chisato first.  She picked up these amazing wool leggings that are super warm.  Next we went to the ultra chic (and trés,trés,trés cher) boutique L'eclaireur, where she got these super cute little water proof  Melissa shoes .  After going into about a hundred mens stores with no sign of boots for Grant the situation was starting to look grim.  We decided to peek into Margiela and see what kind of deals they were offering.  Just as Judy warned he fell in love with the boots there and wouldn't leave without them.  I just hope they last through the next decade to justify the price (but they were 50% off.....right?).  It was pretty cool to get such a unique look at the true Parisien culture that is Soldes even if it did mean getting pushed over for a A.P.C cardigan and fighting your way thru every tiny rue in a mad shopping fury.    

How to kill a sunday at the flea market for 5 euros

Being the flea market junkies that we are we were so excited with the thoughts of what the Paris flea markets would have in store for us.  After a couple unsuccessful journeys to the tourist trap Porte St. Ouen Flea Market, we decided to venture to a little more obscure one.  The Porte de Montreuil market had been referred to us by several friends who told us we would be able to find a cheap bike there, but that if we were to buy one it would mean that we don't have any moral hangups about where the bicycles may have come from.  Sounded like our type of crowd so we decided to check it out and see what type of things we could find.  3 blocks before you even get to the market the sidewalks start becoming  lined with people  shoulder to shoulder selling their goods right on the sidewalk out of their granny carts and suitcases.  It was here that we started scoring right away.  Every person in this section repeats some sort of strange native bird call-esque shouting, un euro un euro un euro except it's so fast it is almost indistinguishable.  Its like we're right in front of you buddy, you don't need to yell that its only a euro to us, we heard you the first 1,667,808 times.  Anyways back to scoring I spotted this blazer on the ground and it looked pretty cool so I picked it up and of course first thing I did was check the label,  Yves Saint Laurent, and even though I don't really like db blazers too much I am much to much of a label whore to not buy it for a euro, Judy also liked a beret the guy had so I convinced him to give us both for a euro. Not bad for our first stop.  About two minutes later I spotted this sweet Cacharel cardigan laying on the ground I picked it up trying to not look to interested I asked how much the lady wanted for it.  She said 15 and after I started putting it down she said 3, I still told her no and then she said 1,  Well lady you got yourself a deal.  I already loved this flea market and we hadn't even made it to the actual market yet.  The rest of the market was pretty crappy actually.  The used clothing is all pilled in huge mountains and wrinkled beyond recognition,  but still pretty expensive.  The rest of the market is all compiled of new really cheap  junk.  The unbearable cold weather did provoke us to buy some thick wooly socks though and we got 6 pairs for 3 euros.  Didn't see to many bikes or anything else that interested us but we were happy with what we got and called it a day. 

Staying Warm

Ok so we realize that the reason we are here in Paris is to design and observe the fashion we see around us.  But so far most of our posts have been about food and parties.  We are going to start making our blog a little more fashion oriented, but we want to try to avoid making it only shots of Judy everyday wearing her selected outfit (not that we have anything against blogs like that). With that being said here are some shots of Judy in a piece I made her for Christmas, seeing as how it has been icing up here nearly everyday it is almost impossible to get Judy to wear anything else but this thing.     She loves it so much and says it is soooooo warm.  We are going to start making them custom made to measure, so if anyone is interested send us an email with your measurements and we can go from there.   Truly it's the best defense against the winter season.   

Bonne Année!!!!

We want to wish everyone a very happy new year. Hope you had a good one.  We definitely did.  Hope you accomplish everything you want to in 2009.