She beat Carla Bruni Chanel Coin
Purse – whom Fressange has known “since she was in nappies” – into fifth
place. “They don't see me every day. I promise I didn't pay for it,” is her
laughing response. She adds, “I was very proud, of course, but my daughters were
all giggling because they think of me in front of a pile of dishes screaming
that I have nothing to wear. My daughter Nine did an interview for Teen Vogue in
which she said that I spend hours in front of the wardrobe every morning, which
is totally untrue because I have to take my little daughter to school at
8.30am!”What does Fressange think distinguishes French style? “In England people
follow fashion much more than in France,” Chanel Coin
Purse she says. “I imagine Bridget Jones working in an office and dying to
go and buy a pair of shoes at lunchtime, you know.
French women have a kind of arrogance. It's: ‘I ignore fashion, I do my own
thing.'”In France there is also less of an obsession with youth Chanel Coin
Purse . Fressange caused something of a sensation in January last year when
she modelled for Jean Paul Gaultier's couture show. There was nothing tokenistic
about her sultry turn and the audience were thrilled. “People were happy to see
that Gaultier likes old ladies too,” she jokes. “There he was showing that he
likes all kinds of women. I think people were clapping for that too, to show
that it's possible to be fine at 51, as I was then, without botox.” She's also
frustrated by the fact that it's “impossible to find a woman who is more than 30
years old in magazines. It's like being older is hidden, there's no one for
women to identify with.”The secret of Fressange's longevity as a style icon
isn't just Chanel Coin
Purse her gamine bone structure and sinewy grace (she manages to make eating
an overstuffed club sandwich while we chat look surprisingly elegant) but also
her intelligence and mischievous animation. She once greeted Anna Wintour for a
private viewing at Chanel by going into the changing room and putting on the
same red suit and a pair of dark glasses and mimicking her. It's a testament to
Fressange's charm that Wintour laughed. In the Eighties she became famous for
subverting the catwalk's traditional poses and generally appearing to have fun –
although she says that the highlight of her modelling career was “when I
stopped. It's boring to be a model.” Despite this, she rips through a list of
catwalk memories with all the excitement of a child unwrapping a Chanel Coin
Purse Christmas present.
There was the time she took a bit of burnt cork and drew herself a huge
moustache; the catwalk appearances with skis or her dog; and the occasion a
photographer put a joke-shop knife on his head to elicit a scream.It was also in
the Eighties that Fressange pioneered the idea of wearing a Chanel Coin
Purse jacket with Levi 501s, and as she wanders around the plush Roger
Vivier boutique greeting customers with two kisses, she still looks the epitome
of chic understatement. Although she sometimes wears heels, she prefers the
fuss-free practicality of flat shoes, and is scornful of the way that “some
people think that shoes are ladders. No man is going to say, ‘I would love you
so much more if you were 10cm taller'. Women are suffering, you know. Elegance
is about feeling nice, how can you feel nice when you have shoes that are like a
prosthesis?”She particularly loves Vivier's flat “Chanel Coin
Purse”-style shoes, because “I can wear them during the evening or day, with
a dress or with trousers. They can be classic and chic but never bourgeois or
boring.” The same could be said of the chic-est woman in France.
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