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Dior-Printemps Xmas

Paris Christmas windows open early November. Printemps did an homage to Dior's 1947 New Look and it's coupola.

And the color RED!

This is a rather complicated re-iteriation of the pinched-in-waist look

And the big full skirt.

Definitely very ladylike indeed.

Marionette dollies dance in Printemps windows, their circle skirts twirling.

Red...red...red!

A primal accessory is the lollipop/la sucette a big favorite of the French.

You'll need a lot of lollie to purchase these special edition Dior bags, shoes and scarves at Printemps.

Overhead a ceiling of golden lights reflect back into the windows.

Merci DIOR PRINTEMPS!

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Dior compote de framboise

Next Spring 2013 Dior says you'll be wearing this eye makeup.

I do like these neck ribbon-scarfs. Do you?

Wouldn't it be fun to be at the show in Paris sitting front row with De Niro and Kanya?

Stripes are always in, in Paris. Pink and black - a classic.

Much discussed hot new designer at Dior, Raf Simon puts stripes the hem as well

On tinselly, cellephane dresses with flowing mini trains

Lots of simple clean designs from Simon at Dior. NYTimes Bill Cunningham says they're clothes real women can wear. But what about us unreal women?

Nevermind. These swirly roses remind me of...

A top-down view of 'Le Macaron de Rêve Framboise Melba de Dalloyau'

petite description:

Un biscuit macaron a la framboise montée comme une religieuse, fourré d'une crème vanille ultra légère et d'une compotée de framboise, le tout décoré par des framboises fraîches et de la gumauve

A raspberry macaroon cookie mounted as a nun, filled with a vanilla cream lightweight and a raspberry compote, all decorated with fresh raspberries and marshmallows.

If you want to hear Google Translate read this bit of poetry aloud go here.

Last night while making applesauce again I got inspired by all this framboise and pink and threw in some frozen berries to make compote de framboise...

If I really wanted to get creative I could knock off Eric Kayser's verrine de cheesecake but use Greek yogurt instead for a framboise stripey layered/couches affair like this.

By the way Dior designer Raf Simon took his bow at the show wearing stripes on his back.

Was Simon rushing off to indulge in a striped, layered bit of gateaux after all the fashion show angst. Did you experience angst last week getting a shortened versions of PB in your mailbox? Sorry. I was just testing. Everything should be back to normal today. Bon Appetit!

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Dior Secret Garden

She didn't blog yesterday...

She was caught up in the mad search for visas

Up against the walls of bureaucracy

She went into hiding fearful, trapped

She would pretend all was well

Put on a good face

But inside terror struck

She wanted to run away from it all

But climb the steps she must

Lost in a maze of paperwork in triplicate

She would find her way clear

And breath l'aire frais

Get some perspective, calm down

Croise les doigts/cross your fingers she makes it.

On verra bien.

Have you seen the new Dior Secret Garden?

Don't miss it.

Shot at Versailles and features Dior-clad models running through the castle’s gilded halls. Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin shot the living campaign, starring Daria Strokus, Melissa Stasiuk and Xiao Wen Ju in Bill Gaytten’s last collection for the house.