Posted on September 20, 2008 by Saint Just
What can this be? A new Coco? After Irma la Douce has so very well played her so definitave? Saint-Just tells you it is true! He has heard it for himself!
But is it so bad a thing? Two Cocos? And one so very young! She is Audrey Tautou, who plays the girl is very many [...]
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Posted on September 19, 2008 by Saint Just
When M. Laurent was a petite ecolier — I do not mean the cookie; I mean the boy scholar — he learns what he know from the great Christian Dior. Later they fight, but for a while they are good friends.
M. Dior is the fine fellow who long ago invented “The Look.” Because after all [...]
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Posted on September 17, 2008 by Saint Just
Saint-Just will help you think how French Couture goes. Picture in you eye this line: On the end here you see Mme. Coco. On the end there you see M. Crocodile. Now look. There in the middle you see Yves Saint Laurent.
He is no relation to me, Saint-Just. Ho ho! But he is nonetheless the [...]
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Posted on September 16, 2008 by Saint Just
Night and Day. Sun and Moon. Snakes and Ladders. So likewise, Coco and Le Croc. They are the two halves of the French couture. Like the half pieces of a split chicken breast. Or like two halves of a face. Coco, she is the top half of the face with all the hair and the [...]
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Posted on September 11, 2008 by Saint Just
The couture of France she would be nothing at all — nothing! – without all the good dresses you see from Coco! Mme Coco she is the first to make a dress go just so, and also the quaint hat!
All France is so full of thanks and love for Mme Coco, so we make a [...]
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