How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are

Basic oversized sunglasses. Every day, even when it’s raining, because you always have a reason to wear them: too bright out, a hangover, tears running down your face, a desire to be mysterious

Basic oversized sunglasses. Every day, even when it’s raining, because you always have a reason to wear them: too bright out, a hangover, tears running down your face, a desire to be mysterious

Jeans, anytime, anywhere, and any way. Take a Parisienne’s jeans out of her closet and she feels stark naked

Don’t use abbreviations when texting. (And emoticons should be only for your girlfriends

Find “your” perfume before you turn thirty. Wear it for the next thirty years

The very simple, but very expensive T-shirt.

It’s not an accessory, it’s your home.

It’s not an accessory, it’s your home.

there’s only one rule the Parisienne follows: may the best driver win.

Her mother had been so beautiful (family photos attest to her former long-limbed elegance). And yet, a mere decade of inactivity was all it took to ruin this gift that Mother Nature had so graciously bestowed upon her.