L'Eclaireur...30 ans...mon coeur...

Ha! 13 years...well, L'Eclaireur has been doing it for 30. Thirty glorious years of fashion, evolution, inspiration and art...I miss my old life in Paris and when I go there it's like mainlining. I stick that needle in my arm and the juices ooze through my veins. I feel sleepy, giddy and then settle in with a smile of content on my face. I sleep late, eat many meals with friends, paw through piles of fabric, visit my favorite hidden shop for notions and then make my pilgrimage to L'Eclaireur, home of loveliness and provocativeness.

L'Eclaireur has changed over the years. I used to go and buy Ann Demeulemeester and Dirk Bikkembergs on the rue des Rosiers in the Marais. They still are the purveyors of my favorite Belgian designers but that location is now closed and they moved over to Sevigne: a jaw-dropping interactive space filled with elaborate, movable and contemplative installations. My ability to afford shopping there has been diminished but my addiction for my fix, "ma dose", hasn't...

But my favorite L'Eclaireur outpost has always been and remains behind the secret door on the rue Herold. No sign, no indication of a shop except for a tiny box...shhh! I shouldn't even tell you...
I want this to be my home..

I want this to be my living room...


ha! I worked with this woman many years ago...