Dress Yourself in Reds

Do we eat apples because they're sexier?

Yesterday the Guardian said red art sell for much more at auction than non-red paintings and that they're 'sexy'. According to Sotheby's art expert Philip Hook, the colour red also sells. Plugging the upcoming sale at Sotheby's of Mondrian'spainting Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue, he told reporters that the more red a painting flaunts, the higher the price it is likely to fetch.

I'm now on the lookout for Aixoise emigres like this gal in the Metro. Mille Red Riding Hood is a long way from home. Hope she doesn't meet M. Loup/wolf...

There was TONS of red at L'Art du Jardin in Grand Palais - Merci's red car loaded with complimentary colored greens...

A red tomato/carrot bouquet...

And a red 'flower' chair at the show. Just don't sit on it. You'll crush it!

Mom and son look-alikes toute en rouge

Dad is matching bébé at the show. It would be appropriate to dress yourself in reds at a garden show full of greens. It makes color sense doesn't it?

Though it seems odd that a 'Keep Calm' sign would be in tomato red?

Red trench coats are out in full force in Paris. It poured today...

Friend Patricia looks swell in front of this turquoise wall.

Provencal strawbs last night...

And sighted today the 1st fraise du bois/wild strawberries of the season at Maison Stohrer on rue Montorgueil

Just a touch of red will do in Paris...

Looking very rouge et noir with this smidge of a red skirt and black boots.

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Red Tuesday

On grey, drizzly days like today there must be a general consensus amongst Parisians to throw on a touch of red.

Sit down in your reddest chair and prepare to have your spirits lifted. Isn't that what red does?

School kids are big proponents of the color red. I shot all these on the way home from the pool this morning. Fortunately my pool bag is red so I blend in...

The pool is near several grade schools. I pass lots of red riding hoods.

Red ridding hoodism starts around the same time as immersion into pastry shops = early indoctrination.

Red jeans work for boys...

And girls.

Vichy red checks are an everyday occurrence in Paris. They do not just appear when it clouds over nor do they have any political significance for those concerned.

Which Pantone red is preferred in Paris I can't tell you. Just bring something RED when you visit.

Red tartes are pretty common and also not weather-related. But it doesn't hurt having a quick browse of a red desserts in patisserie vitrines when it's overcast. You won't be disappointed.

I would not suggest putting your red tarte inside your red satchel even if they do match...

Remember I told you to pick up the daily free news at the Metro? Today's 20 Minutes announced that since Monday Café de la Paix is having a special petit dejeuner prix choc promotion for charity. Just 5 euros for a hot drink, croissant + OJ until 7 June. The Café de la Paix will match it in a donation. Look for those red news stands.

Have a cheery RED day PBers!!

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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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De Trop?

 Which would you rather have? Fraise tagada from Haribo? Strawberry candies...

 Or real fraises/strawberries in a Dalloyau mini charlotte? OK, that's an easy choice.

 Did you know the French have several cookbooks devoted to their beloved penny candy de mon enfance? Oui, c'est vrai. De trop non?/It's too much

 Too many Pizza Hut motorcycles lined up on bd de Richard Lenoir?

De trop?

 Just the right amount of red/rouge in the Metro - parfait!

 Big red bow on wedge baskets/sneakers?

De trop!

 Kasia Dietz red toenails?

C'est parfait

 Plenty of red shoes on sale at Repetto during the soldes...

But just -20%?

Pas trop :(

 Red shoes in the Metro...let me look again at Repetto

 Mini red expresso take-away cup with silhouettes...

Parfait

 Can you hever have too much French red fruit jams/confitures?

JAMAIS!

 Have you tasted the red old-fashioned hard candies, coquelicot made from poppy flowers of Nemours? You'll find them in many fine Paris patisseries like Sebastien Gaudard et La Mere de Famille etc.

Red bag + red shoes

De trop?

Do you think Parisbreakfast should post just 3 days a week?

Is 5 days de trop?

Do tell all PBers svp

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