ma cherie amore….or amour…or amo (even)
So… do you like it?
The Boy thinks I look very ‘French’.
I’d love to be French – in my opinion, French women are officially the most stylish on the planet. Look at the evidence – the first lady of fashion – Coco Chanel is French, as is Vanessa Paradis, Audrey Tautou, Bridgette Bardot, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, and Emmanuelle Béart – all ladies whose style I wish I could emulate. I lust after a Chanel jacket, just one pair of Louboutin shoes and would die if I owned just one Lanvin dress. Instead I settle for the chicness of Sessun and worship my one pair of Chloe boots.
I feel at home in a country where you go to a shop to buy one thing –boulangerie, patisserie, charcuterie. A country where the philosophy is to have exactly what you like, as long as it is in moderation, a spoonful of jam so solid with strawberries it would stick to the ceiling, a square of cocoa rich chocolate, garlicky creamy daupinose potatoes, decadent rillette and foie gras, saucisson sec, and sweet madelines.
The LTE was half French and we spent summers visiting Lyon, Avignon, and staying in little towns like Manosque and Greoux les Bain, driving between fields of lavender to eat at tiny restaurants with set 3 course meals of onion tart, duck cassoulet and crème brulee (or eggs in aspic, never again) and then spend early evenings reading on the porch, bonsoir-ing the locals before strolling to a bar to drink rich red wine.
I’d love to be French, oh to be sitting right now in a little café with my Café Noisette smoking a blue Gauloise cigarette just watching the world go by.
If you could be any other nationality what would you be?
wit woo look at sexy smidge! yes definitely French i see what he means.
If i were to be from anywhere else I’d choose Italy. They’re effortlessly cool and the men are to die for
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smidge Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
OOh i forgot about the French men in all my raving about the women. I do like myself a bit of french man (Olivier Martinez – yummmy!)
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All the French people I’ve ever met have been rude or arrogant
I’m sure most of them are lovely though.
I’d be Spanish. Fiery and full of tapas. Yum.
LOVE the hair! V foxy xx
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smidge Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
I love the French arrogance, the ‘pouf’ face they give when something is not to their liking, it makes my tummy go funny…
But then a little arrogance is my favourite thing in a man
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P.s I think i need new straightners – my hair on that pic is looking rubbish!
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Cool hair. I like. Fringes are always foxy. And I think Scandinavians are pretty cool. And part of me thinks that the Japanese are pretty awesome too. Japandinavian!
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smidge Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 6:47 pm
Japanese girls are amazing, I spent hours in Shibuya (in the 109 building in particular when i was in Tokyo)
Check out the Shibuya girls here… http://www.japaneselifestyle.com.au/japan_picture/thumbnails-39.html
(Just for you Del!)
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Would agree. Can see what “The Boy” means.
With you on the French. Spent a year living (and allegedly studying) there and I guess I’m quite the Francophile as a result. Most of my time was spent puffing on the aforementioned Galoise in pavement cafés making judgemental remarks about passers-by. Good times!
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Love it! My mum always says I look French when I have my fringe cut back in, too. But yes – you definitely have that Charlotte Gainsbourg-esque look of effortless cool about you.
I suppose I’d like to be properly Italian, as opposed to just a wee bit – great food, great skin and great figures! And such a beautiful, romantic-sounding language.
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smidge Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 6:42 pm
If i look a bit Charoltte then i’m not aloud my long standing crush on her dad Serge am i??!
See me and him – and yes i want to have been Jane Birkin sooo much
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/years/1971/gallery/images/340/serge.jpg)
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Oooh, I LIKE this question. My answer surprises me, but I think I’d like to be Australian. Most Australians I’ve met just have the best attitude – laid back, friendly, positive . . . I’d love to be more like that!
Plus then I’d be in Australia and warm!
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smidge Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 9:11 pm
I wasn’t a fan of Australians until i went to Oz and actually met some – the ones that used to come here in their thousands in the early noughties used to drive me round the bend!
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Love it! Looks fantastic on you.
And I have no idea. My background is not too fab right now so I think anywhere would be better.
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Oooh I like the fringe, very nice!!
I’d like to be an Aussie. Aussie men are hot, they have the beaches, the weather and its such a laid back country.
When I was younger I was despeate to have an exotic, fiery blood in me like Italian..sadly the most exotic blood I have is Scottish.
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smidge Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 9:11 pm
Mine is Irish i think…
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that was my former life!
ohhh, how I miss my noisettes & Saturday afternoons by the Seine with my Berthillon ice cream & my Wednesday morning croissant aux amandes.
Paris me manque <3
I'm Spaniard and love my culture… but French is my adopted culture!
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I like it! You do look French.
I am part Belgian, part Yugoslavian (Croatian), and part Irish.
I wouldn’t mind being fully Irish.
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i love it! hmmm i think i’d be hawaiian or japanese
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It’s a good look for you…
I’d want to be Australian, partly because women seem to swoon over the accent, partly because the weather would be nice, and partly so I can mingle with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman and the rest, as in my head I feel they go to parties together all the time.
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very French indeed!
And I think I would like to be French. I’m Welsh, English, and Scottish by heritage, and it all seems so normal and boring Although, my town is fully of anything but Welsh, English, or Scottish. I’m practically exotic here.
Maybe Icelandic too
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