PARIS : THE CITY OF LIGHTS

 

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I always had a love for Paris. I think its an amazing city and the time is never enough to enjoy it.  I've met many Parisians and all of them told me that Paris is a small city but eveyday it offers you a lot of opportunities and knowledge. Its not only about history, art, fashion, architecture but also it gives you the Parisian feeling that makes you want to walk around the streets, explore the city and the beauty that it has.

“A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.”
― Thomas Jefferson

 

The Eiffel Tower (that reminds you the Belle Époque). The Louvre with all the beautiful collections of Egyptian Antiquities, Near Eastern Antiquities, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities, Islamic Art, Sculpture, Decorative Arts, Paintings, Prints and Drawings. 

" An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."

― Friedrich Nietzsche

“…the whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music…it is worth anyone’s while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in Everything.”  
― James Thurber

Then Georges Pompidou, which it was the first time I've visited and its just magnificent and inspirational for all the types of people. Especially if you are a designer is the best museum to get inspired. Paris is definitely  the city for artists..

 “I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.”― Ernest Hemingway

"People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it’s the best place to pick ideas. Just like Italy, Spain… or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris." ― Roman Payne

 

LOUIS VUITTON and Yayoi Kusama, flagship store in Champs Elysee

Saint Germain with all the beautiful Parisian streets, cafes and boutiques and of course Champs Elysee..

"Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant."
― Honoré de Balzac

"The national characteristics… the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with which the ordinary tourist can get in touch just by sitting quite quietly over a glass of wine in a Paris bistro.”
 ― Lawrence Durrell

Montmartre,  Pantheon, Notre Dame, Palais Royal, a trip tour with a bateau mouche in the Parisian canals, Trocadero etc etc etc...

QUOTES BY FRENCH DESIGNERS

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  If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second World War - they have all been creative reinventions, the moment new forms of luxury come into play.

  Christian Lacroix

        People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.  
    Jean Paul Gaultier
  

  "Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."
  Coco Chanel

  "You have to be luxurious nude. It's difficult to move in the nude in front of a mirror. It's much easier to move when you're dressed. But if you can walk around in the nude easily in front of your man, if you can be luxurious in the nude, then you've really got it."
  Sonia Rykiel

  Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself.    Hubert de Givenchy

  A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting. Christian Dior

   The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail.
  Christian Dior

  I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.
  Jean Paul Gaultier

  
  

  Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.
  Christian Lacroix

  French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.
  Christian Lacroix

  
  

  Fashions fade, style is eternal.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  
  

  I like to undress women - not to dress them. You know, like Manet's 'Olympia' or Helmut Newton's photographs - naked women with shoes. This is what I am trying to do.

  Christian Louboutin