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2011 - the year of parties, photography, Paris and a press office job. The year of my 21st birthday. The year of some amazing creative friendships, including Kate Woods, Jonathan Pryce and Audrey Rogers who took many of these photos. Here's to 2012. All the faces we'll meet, the books we'll read, the songs we'll grow to love, the heartstrings we'll have pulled, the things we'll buy, the things we'll lose, the new foods we'll taste, the endless coffee cups, and measuring spoons...But let's not be Alfred J. Prufrocks. Bear witness to those moments and record them - in a notebook, on film, in your memory if you happen to be in possession of a good one.
To all my readers, I thank you heartily. For your comments and emails and kind words, and for devoting time to this vanity project which is my blog. May 2012 be your best yet.
A mélange of Christmas activities in Paris and in Scotland, where I have been for the last few days with my family. I bought my first ever tree for my own flat in Paris this year, and that sensational smell really kickstarted the Christmas spirit, along with the permanent lingering scent of mulled wine from the litres and litres that were consumed at my Christmas party in mid-December. Back in Scotland at last on Christmas Eve, having navigated the grèves at Charles de Gaulle and witnessed a punch-up at the check-in, I drove into the city and experienced that familiar thrill of the gothic city of Edinburgh in the thralls of the Christmas spirit. My Christmas present this year? My nearest and dearest are doubtless bored stiff with my devoted praise for - yes, a new camera. I am now the proud owner of a Canon 5D Mark II, and the most beautiful part, a 85mm f/1.2 portrait lens. Here are some of my first snaps.
Fashion designer Jean Claude Jitrois and myself playing the role of égerie (having been squeezed into a sample from the Jitrois SS 2012 collection), in his apartment overlooking the Tuileries gardens for Italian fashion magazine Collezione . If the last four months in my job as PA /PR for Jitrois have taught me anything, it has been to look model-ready at all times!
Funnily enough, 26 years ago, another 21 year old brunette was helping Jean Claude go through his sketches at home, none other than Princess Stephanie of Monaco. Below, her shoot with Jean Claude for l'Officiel magazine in 1985. I think I have some pretty big shoes glass slippers to fill.
Portrait of Jean Claude by Yves Bady for his latest book, 101, a compilation of the leading figures in French culture in their environments. Jean Claude Jitrois' apartment, where his incredible collection of contemporary art meets antique furnishings, medieval tapestries and the occasional Modigliani, has been heavily documented in the French interiors and fashion worlds.
I wore look 1 from the SS 2012, the DS dress in emerald.
Photo for JEWEL magazine. Models wearing the SS 2012 collection with Jean Claude in his apartment during Paris Fashion Week in October. The green full suede skirt is the Imogen skirt.
