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Paris: Le Marais

Just a lovely walk from the Marais to Hotel de Ville, with a stop at the Seine banks: the urge of breathing, the vibe of what’s going on, chic graffiti of well known artists, on wrinkled walls an invaders ceramic.

Juste une jolie ballade du Marais à Hôtel de Ville, en passant par les quais: l’envie de prendre l’air, humer l’air du temps, grafs chic d’artistes reconnus, céramique invaders sur murs ridés.

Strolling from an art gallery to another, I like to have a look at exhibitions of  l’Institut du Mexique @ 119 rue Vieille du Temple, 75003 Paris. And near the crazy jewels shop 4 Me by Julie Bernardin @ 115 rue Vieille du Temple, 75003 Paris, I met the iconic Chloé Sevigny. Even her friend looks like accessories.

Flâner parmi les galeries et l’Institut du Mexique @ 119 rue Vieille du Temple, 75003 Paris.Près des bijoux fantaisie 4 Me by Julie Bernardin @ 115 rue Vieille du Temple, 75003 Paris, croisé Chloé Sevigny, chicissime. Même son compagnon fait figure d’accessoire. Quel style!

Walking, watching, I just can’t get enough. Always getting back to my Marais, my old sweet home. Late breakfast , with home made sweet-smelling pies and chocolate cakes in warm atmosphere at Le Loir dans la théière : 3, rue des Rosiers, 75004 Paris.

Marcher, regarder, ne m’en lasse pas, jamais. J’y reviens toujours aux grès des humeurs. Brunch douillet, odorantes tartes sablées, moelleux gâteaux maison, régressif bric à brac aux confortables fauteuils et tables en bois : Le Loir dans la théière : 3, rue des Rosiers, 75004 Paris.

Windows gets magic at night. Here the widow of the bags shop Jamin Puech , looks like a painting @  68, rue Vieille du Temple, 75003 Paris.

Shopping de nuit où les vitrines gagnent en magie. Sur la photo ci-dessous, une composition comme une peinture, pour les sacs Jamin Puech : 68, rue Vieille du Temple, 75003 Paris.

The beautiful building of Zadig&Voltaireshop: 56 @ rue Vieille du Temple, 75003 Paris.

Superbe bâtiment pour la boutique Zadig&Voltaire: 56, rue Vieille du Temple, 75003 Paris.

My bar without name, where I’ve enjoyed where I’ve enjoyed listening a classic groovy House music late at night… Jazzanova…

Mon bar sans nom où j’ai aimé traîner des heures tardives… à écouter une chaude et ronde House music, Jazzanova… 

This really unexpected shop sells monastic art craft,Monastica @ 11 rue du Pont Louis Philippe, 75004 Paris. Think next summer changing your Saint-Tropez Spartans K. Jacques with the “Jerusalem sandals”. K. Jacques @ 16 rue Pavée, 75004 Paris.I confess, I really like K. Jacques: cause few years ago, I’ve shot many for my book about flip flops, Ze Tong Book.

Curiosité inattendue et décalée, cette boutique vendant de l’artisanat issu des monastères Monastica : 11 rue du Pont Louis Philippe, 75004 Paris. Pour alterner l’été prochain avec vos tropéziennes spartiates K. Jacques, les « sandales Jérusalem » ? K. Jacques : 16 rue Pavée, 75004 Paris. Je confesse, j’ai un faible pour les K. Jacques que j’ai beaucoup photographiées dans mon livre sur les tongs Ze Tong Book.

A small charming place to drink some mint tea or eat creative salads, with a vue to the Seine Bank and secondhand booksellers,Galerie 88 @ 88 Quai de l’Hôtel de Ville, 75004 Paris.

Un autre petit repaire tout en charme, salades créatives et thé à la menthe face à la Rive Gauche, vue sur quai et bouquinistes, Galerie 88 : 88 Quai de l’Hôtel de Ville, 75004 Paris.

Before March 31, the exhibition I definitely have to watch, I’m found of Samuel Parr: « Paris en couleurs » @ l’Hôtel de Ville, Salle Saint-Jean de l’Hôtel de Ville, 5 rue Lobau 75004 Paris. www.paris.fr 

L’expo que je ne dois absolument pas rater, suis fan de Samuel Parr, jusqu’au 31 Mars : « Paris en couleurs » à l’Hôtel de Ville, Salle Saint-Jean de l’Hôtel de Ville, 5 rue Lobau 75004 Paris. www.paris.fr

The superstar BHV or Bazar of l’Hotel de Ville, one of the oldest department store where you can find everything.

Le fameux BHV, immuable Bazar de l’Hôtel de Ville.

And « our » Parisian tube ! And his great free weekly newspaper, a kind of Time out: A Nous Paris. No thanks, tonight I go back walking on my red and gold Patrick Cox vintage high eels to my beloved Montmartre, tasting my city of light.

Le non moins fameux métro parisien… Ah si l’excellent hebdo gratuit du métro : A Nous Paris. Pour ce soir non merci, je « me » rentrerai dans mon Montmarte chéri à pied, dégustant ma ville lumière, perchées sur mes vintage Patrick Cox rouge à  fil d’or.

Let’s meet in Montmartre! On se voit à Montmatre…

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Julie Bernardin, the Parisian girlfriend of Batman

– I love speed, I’m not politically correct ! I am quick and I only work in the rush.

Julie Bernardin is a radioactive frenetic jewels designer and extremely good with her hands. She studied at Esmod and Studio Berçot where: “Everything I did was terribly bad!”. And became a collection coordinator at Isabel Canovas and a specialist of the XVIII century items and furniture: “pretty cosmic!”… And a Spiderman’s buddy who’s created her trade “to make gifts” three years ago: 4 Me.

– A jewel is a way to express yourself. People easily adapt, one season and you throw them. I think I have fun, but I don’t really have talent.

 

I disagree: for months, years, two years! For two years I’ve looked for the shop of Super Julie, further to a never-ending brunch at Hotel Murano with The Human Torch. While we nonchalantly walked: I saw it! A kind of “Honey I shrunk Batman” miniature with strass and chains, like a jewel for bags with hype bling charm! I love it! The Human Torch wants to give it to me, I can’t make up my mind: Tiny-Bat is too big for my imaginativeness threshold. Ellipse, after a while and the absolute certain I want the Batman jewel, “the object of desire” says Super Julie. Once again: after the Sunday brunch ritual in front of the Murano superstars fire place and endless white leather sofa, with this time a human friend, I look for the shop in rue de Turenne. Nothing! The shop disappeared. That’s it! With my jewel! Joker for sure! Two years later, Super Julie comes out again on Iqons. Now the shop has a black box frontage and my X-Men intuition won’t make any mistake again. So what? Even superheroes make a mistake! Seldom!

– I love charms, I put them everywhere! Thanks to Vanessa Zochetti (a elle.fr journalist), I also put them on chains. I really like working with chains. I buy small thingamajigs everywhere, lots in the States, in shops of cooking, cakes tins. Many stuffs from the 50-70’s.

My mega bionic eye examines the glam Barbie’s red superb curls dressed in vintage cowgirl, with a denim tiny short and colourful Mexican boots on a shelf. “Inspector Harry” flashes, in the Vegas 70’s. On another shelf, some Spanish”something”: Super Julie likes kitsch things she transforms into collectors. The 40-50’s jewels she antiques in the US and then “put back together again” to make her own jewels.

– I  love Rita Hayworth, Fred Astair, Capra… 50’s massive influence. I’m very conceptual. I like when it’s representative and something happens: telling a story, like in a Crazy Horse act. All samples have a name. Small dogs are in “My Best Friends”, cause they are here when we need them

Among the first persons to have a look at her jewels, guess who ? Two great members of the Marverick private club: Gaspard Yurkievich (again and again, I know!)  and André who sells them in his Black Block shop at the Palais de Tokyo.

I think there are people with an eye and others not. I grew up in the cult of what was beautiful and good, the Crazy Horse basis principles: it had to fix it! Detail is very important.

Yes, a detail, Super Julie is the grand daughter of Alain Bernardin, the Crazy Horse’s creator.

 – Really hard to be yourself ! I am very shy: I listen too much, I need to be relieved. We are in the rat year, a very important year for me! I’m not zen at all!

A big laugh ! No problem, I am not either and I could ask for help Master Carradine for an intensive coaching! I shake off Joker, now we can leave our super powers:

– I love music, I’ve always gone to concerts. I am a mad keen of Fleetwood Mac, Prince, « Sympathy for the Devil » of the Stones… and seventies. I would like to work in music. Many DJs and rappers like my jewels.  I sell a lot to celebs: Rolling Stones, Guetta, Audrey Tautou, Olivier Assayag…

Her handmade jewels, four to ten samples by models, are sold in Paris at Bon Marché that “loves them”  (with an exclusive design, for this winter), Galeries Lafayettes (at the fashion designers corner, last summer) and in thirty shops, mostly concept stores (oups!) around the world: Great Bretain, Italy, Germany, Japan, Taïwan, New York and Chicago, by Jeff Mills, yeah the DJ…

Tribute to my blog-trotter attitude : Super Julie, what about travelling?

– When I travel, I’m always sick. The white plastic bed in Seychelles: No way! I love Caribbean, I feel home, the States, Italy and still not Japan.

My mega bionic eye noticed the love of the Wild Wild West, home sweet home Arizona:

– I was born in L.A. And I’m crazy about hardline stuff, Indian natives, Navarros and Tony Hillerman (one of my favourite writers too). I love desert, the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas where you can find the best antique dealers… the Ceasar Palace’s lamps. And near Vegas, I recharge my batteries in an Indian reservation. I’ve loved Kauai (Hawaii) for the Yankee atmosphere at the very end of the world: many vintage things.

And what about Paris as the international Marverick’s ultimate trend?

– I am a real Parisian woman. Everything I like, doesn’t exist anymore.  Paris is not a night city anymore, there isn’t any night bakery either! I hardly accept things change. I like things last. And I love eating.

The exclusive adresses of Julie :

– A « Burger and Château Carbonieux » diner at the Hilton Arc de Triomphe:
www.arcdetriompheparis.hilton.com 

– Seafood at the « totally absurd funny old-word » Océan Paris Bar: 5, Place Parmentier, 92200 Neuilly-Sur-Seine  –  Tel : 01 47 22 92 05

A brasserie, Le Stella: 133 avenue Victor Hugo, 75116 Paris  –  Tel : 01 56 90 56 00

– And place de l’Alma, the Monceau Park, the17th Arrondissement .

Joker resurfaced and I – don’t want – but I have to get back in supersonic mode. And the meeting is ending:

– It’s a short time, like a Polaroid. My grandfather used to take many Polaroid pictures. What a great pleasure when people enjoy what you do! It means they are like me… they want to be different. You need your eye to be happy! And what brings me the funniest feeling: creating! And I love design unique sample for wedding headgears.

I agree readjusting my (very discrete) golden domino, sheathed in my black leather second skin with my glittler sneakers, freshly laced up with my strass and chains jewels 4Me. Very stylish, I’m flying to save the world in Krytonik speed! Warning! Let me introduce myself : I am the last generation of super heroes, an efficiency exotic melting of Batman, Spiderman and X-men, family business. See you Super Top Julie!

www.juliebernardin.com 

 

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Toronto Shopping

“Hey honey, take a walk on the wild side”* of the West Queen West: the centre of the independent culture of Toronto.I luv everything with queen: west “queen” west sounds awesome! So now you enjoy The Drake Hotel, good taste. Let’s go for a walk in this art and design district. Let’s shop funny bling bling something like… mmm… Many choice, let’s start with shoes at the Eel Boy (682 Queen St W.). Recommended by the stylish receptionist of the Drake. The one that loved my perfume: do you remember?

For adults only (“explicit lyrics”), getting hotter and hotter at Ms Behav’N: fetish lingerie! No address, you’ll find it anyway! Between us, I can’t seriously imagine my dearest fiancé in this bright purple string… moving in a lap dancing way, on one house table! This shop reminds me this excellent movie: “Exotica” of the great  independent filmmaker, Atom Egoyan. Now you’ve got the sexiest panties, you need discrete macadam cowboy boots with a black Stetson, Sue Helen! Hey bunny girl, let’s give them the next trend!.

Right here my dears, we’ll find the great “next “ 70’s design sit in Morba (665 Queen St W.)! Wake-up ! Let’s stop at the Art Photo Studio… for a perfect cute portrait. Oh! No! It’s closed! I want one of those old school pictures in the window! Ab fab, real art! Dear owner, we’re so sorry that you closed! Come back soon! Anytime you want!

Wow arty Barbies in this art gallery, cool! But what’s the difference with regular Barbies? You’re right they all look the same, except those are just naked and messy and have red and purple hair… arty baby, I guess! Tribute to the bloggers that love vintage “prehistoric” types… So, once upon a time: Gutenberg ! Oh a tree in a wood sit! Funny in Canada, I love the concept! Do they deliver it with the mythical canadian lumberjack?

Now remember Sue Helen, we bought Playboy girl accessories (panties, killa boots) and found “The” Canadian lumberjack, we miss chic crash helmet for biking to woods in Harley! What a great gift, a kind of cool futuristic minimalist pillow-teddy bear, I call “sleeping mate”: red or white?

Hungry? English tea at the Red Tea Box (742 Queen St W.) :  freaky cakes in the widow! So frightening! Let’s go knitting to relax in the charming Knit Café (1050 Queen St W.)! You don’t know knitting? No problem, watch and practise. So many nice galleries, shops, coffees, bars and so and so… I gave you samples. And guess what: the best thing, go to the wild wild West Queen West and check it out! And don’t forget to sent me your best locations, with picture and address or website, I can figure out. 

Sorry guys, I have to hurry up: a Slam session at the Drake! See you there! For more info about the West Queen West : www.westqueenwest.ca 

* Lou Reed  

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