August in Paris

Here in France it's August, which basically means that everybody takes a big holiday and uses it as an excuse to do nothing. Even my seamstresses are on holiday- it's in their contracts, unfortunately. The French law is optimized for laziness. So it's just 25 assistants and I, and Alber who's been busy reading "The Year Of Magical Thinking" whilst I'm reading "The Unconsoled." I have my assistants positioned around the offices, being human statues. It's rather entertaining. Anyway, I always find this time frustrating because nobody's doing anything apart from me (unless I'm in NY or such, but I'm obligated in stay in Paris for a little while longer- there's dinners to attend, those that I can't avoid.)

Paris is burning,
Yet there's nobody to see,
They're all out to sea, you see
Paris is burning,
Burning to the ground,
"Come back next month" says the fireman to the fire, says he,
"This time does not work for me"

And you know, that might as well be true. Just yesterday I saw a robber mug an old lady, before she kindly reminded him that it's August and that it's a holiday. The robber gave back the lady's belongings, and went on his way. I saw the two of them at the beach eating icecream (which I frown upon) as I was taking photos just later that day. Last year, a jeweler friend of mine was held up at gunpoint, until the thieves remembered it was August and they had a party to go to.

The girl on the right there tweeted me her picture dressed as myself today. I thought I'd post it, though if she wants it removed, I'd be happy to have an assistant do that. I think she is rather chic. Probably because she is dressed like me, hm?

NY fashion week

So, I had Marc do a show for me from the closet, since Anna and I couldn't be bothered going to see his show. Alber was over and Alber's just too fascinating to miss. Lovely man. Good designer. Stunning work at Lanvin, hmmm? Don't tell him I said that- don't want him getting a big head now, no?

Marc's show was pretty good, delicious. Very edible, hmm? In fact, there were two good collections at NY fashion week.
Marc's and Calvin Klein. The Rodarte girls are lovely, they send me Christmas cards every year- hand made! But their show tried a little too hard, hmm? Nice girls anyway. Nice shoes.

For Calvin Klien we actually went out of the closet to see it and dressed up as a Zebra. A horse is not so fashionable, hmm? So we just marched into the show and sat in the front row. That's the explanation for the Zebra at the CK show- not that it was reported. Anna is powerful, hmm?

Anna, Alber and I have been watching "Gossip Girl". Before we had it acted out in front of us, but now that the closet's uber-exclusive, we cannot let just anybody into it. So Anna got an assistant to go out and buy a television set. Then we threw out a few because it is fun, no? So the assistant had to go back and get more.
"Gossip Girl" is very chic. Serena- she needs to visit the closet sometime.

I've been in the closet for a week now.

(note: we're having a bit of trouble with the shop- some items are coming up as others. ie. the text may say one thing, but the image is another. I've told an assistant to fix this and it should be fixed by tomorrow, hmmmm? Most of the items should be fine. But if an item says it has something to do with Alber, and it has an image of Rei, it's not right, hm?)

Pictured is a tote from the Fake Karl Lagerfeld Cafepress Collection number 1.