Paris is all I need

This Japanese girl was incredibly elegant. It was one of the first beautiful people of Paris I saw during this little holiday, Friday night in the Marais

The Marais, my parisian biggest love

Inside "Merci" shop

She had a classic Vanessa Bruno bag that I've always liked and these very nice fringed Oxfords

Centre Pompidou... It seems I have some kind of destiny with orange bikes

(I was listening to this song while drawing):

I don't want to speak too much today, you already had the words-flood yesterday and that's enough!

It would be great if you could breath the same atmosphere that I felt in Paris through these images, but I know it's almost impossible (I would need a better camera... and better drawings! ahah)

Sometimes I would like to be a street-style photographer to catch all the styles, the nice people, and the situations I see around me, but I am too shy to ask people to take a pic of them... I try to draw once home but inevitably the result is a bit diluted compared to the "original"... But I still hope that in this way I manage to convey at least the 0,01% of what I see...

Good night all of you!

Al 

À Paris

The style of les parisiennes is able to make me freak out even more than the Londoner's.... argh!!

Yes, as you may understand from the title of this post, I am going to Paris.

Don't misunderstand me, I am usually not lucky enough to travel this often (Italian week-ends with family aside) but this time it happens that I have to go to Paris just after I came back from London and honestly I couldn't be happier.

So friday night I'm hopping on the train and I'll be back on Sunday (for secret reasons ahahah... I'll tell you next week but no, anything that has to do with something super-cool like fashion weeks and the like... I guess it was not so difficult to imagine, ahah).

So this tiny post just to tell you that I'll be back here just on monday or tuesday: I'll be very busy until Friday because I have to finish my presentation (a one hour-long presentation for the department meeting, the most boring thing ever but I have to...) and then I'll leave so I'll see you in a few days... I'll miss you!! ahahah

If you have any suggestions for restaurants, nice places to see and cafés please tell me!!

I leave you with some pics and songs to put you in a Parisian mood as much as I am...

La Tour Eiffel in May

Place des Vosges, my favourite square

Les Halles... I love it!!

The Air are my favourite French musicians (and I love their French accent when they speak english!):

I love the album "5:55" from Charlotte Gainsbourg (in fact, the Air wrote the music).

Bises!!

Al

The places I love... Paris

Yesterday I was randomly going through some of my pics, and suddenly I picked up some photos of my favorite cities.

There are some very shallow things that come to my mind immediately when I think about those places, not only the memories of the beauty, art and history of that city itself: I think about the flavour of the food for example. The style of the people in the streets. The iconic women that I love that come from that city or country. 

So I would like to show you all the photos that gave me this feelings and what they brought to my mind.

I will start with Paris.

From Montmartre, March 2008

From upper left, clockwise:

- Le Marais, place des Vosges (took May 2010)

- Ladurée macarons

- Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette

- French girls I love: Charlotte Gainsbourg and Garance Doré

- In the center: Mademoiselle Coco Chanel

- The representation of Paris clubs, bars and showgirls by Toulouse-Lautrec 

And Air's music

I guess all of these are quite typical things to love of Paris (and France), but actually I have tons more (I just don't have enough space to put them all!)

And you? What do you love of Paris?

For the next city I still have to choose... Tokyo, Kyoto, Florence or London?

Al