Before anyone gets the wrong idea, Ines de la Fressange would like to point out that you cannot just spend your way into becoming a Parisian. -- PHOTO: AFP
PARIS - BEFORE anyone gets the wrong idea, Ines de la Fressange would like to point out that you cannot just spend your way into becoming a Parisian.
'I do think it's a state of mind,' says the original French supermodel turned designer and fashion consultant - and, more recently, and much to her surprise, best-selling style book author.
'There are people who want to buy a lot. I'm the one saying, 'Don't buy a lot - buy the good things'.'
Since it came out in France last fall, La Parisienne has sold well over 100,000 copies, entertaining readers with its chummy, cheery prose and prompting an English version - Parisian Chic - for an Anglo-Saxon market crowded with finger-wagging what-not-to-wear guides.
'I didn't write it to be a best-seller,' said De La Fressange, 53, who last October reappeared on the pret-a-porter runway for Chanel, where she attained iconic status as Karl Lagerfeld's androgynous muse in the 1980s.
'French women generally say they're not really interested in fashion, so when I was told that it had sold more than Harry Potter or Keith Richard's autobiography... it certainly was a surprise.' -- AFP
Photo taken on May 30, 1989, shows Chanel's French top model Ines de la Fressange posing with two ex-'Marianne', actress Brigitte Bardot (D) and singer Mireille Mathieu (G), in Paris. Ines de la Fressange was elected
Photo taken on October 5, 2010, shows French former model Ines de la Fressange presenting a creation by German designer Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel during the Spring/Summer 2011 ready-to-wear collection show in Paris. -- PHOTO: AFP
Photo taken on December 2, 2010, in Paris, shows French designer and ex top model Ines de la Fressange arriving at the celebration event for the French weekly magazine Madame Figaro's 30th anniversary. -- PHOTO: AFP
Ines de la Fressange, French fashion designer and former top model, attends the Chanel Fall-Winter 2011/2012 women's ready-to-wear fashion collection show by German designer Karl Lagerfeld during Paris Fashion Week March 8, 2011. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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