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Entries tagged with 'Printemps'
Posted Mar. 26, 2008,
Carla Bruni Adds Repetto to her Repertoire
By Whitney Spaner
The hot topic in Paris last week was President Sarkozy's recent wedding to the former model turned smoky-voiced chanteuse Carla Bruni. Most people seemed to think the shot-gun wedding was silly and Sarkozy's popularity seems to have suffered for it. Carla however is continuing to create with a specially designed shoe for Bridget Bardot's favorite ballet-inspired shoe company Repetto's 60th anniversary. Here is the picture of her shoe from the halls of the Parisian department store Printemps -- notice how her tag says "Carla Bruni - Artist." Really? Artist? After over two decades in the spotlight for various activities, including dating Mick Jagger while he was still married to Jerry Hall I think she could have picked a different title than artist. Perhaps now First Lady would have been better suited?
Posted Mar. 21, 2008,
Nina Ricci Heir Romano Ricci Is Smelling Like Roses
By Whitney Spaner
This week I’ve been assigned the horrible job of going to Paris to check out the changes being made to the legendary Printemps department store, but more on that later. My favorite part of the day was meeting Nina Ricci heir Romano Ricci, who decided to go from a career in race car driving to fragrances. He launched his brand Juliette Has a Gun last year and has been busy selling the two scents, Lady Vengeance and Miss Charming in 12 countries. Printemps is one of the only places you can find the fragrance along with one of our favorite Parisian boutiques Colette. It’s sold at Henri Bendel and Fred Segal in the US.
The very charming Ricci, has been said to be quite the man about town, and tends to hang out with his equally attrractive friend Erwin Creed, the heir to the famous French fragrance company Creed. On one website I saw them referred to as the Paris and Nicole of the fragrance world!
Here is a cute picture of Romano from yesterday afternoon. I loved his casual use of a tuxedo shirt!