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Emi came by on Saturday at closing time. I'd had a fine glass of wine from the Coach with Max and was just about to wobble home with the boys but they insisted on choreographing an impromptu dance routine, somehow sensing that Emi is studying dance and would be up for some high-kickery!

When they left her alone long enough to try some of our new goodies, she whipped on the Obey New Wave logo t and the A.P.C. madras flowers blouse....


More madras this week I'm promised.....

Madame xx

WHAT DID YOU DO THIS WEEKEND?

I'm saying the weekend started on Thursday night and I don't feel the need to write more - you know the old saying - a picture speaks a thousand words. Here is the lastest home movie from the Shop At Maison B gang about nothing in particular, just hanging out.


XX Emma

EXCITEMENT PLUS

OMG today was awesome cause I went into Soho to meet at the Shop with everyone else to pull off the fastest roof top shoot with all the new season APC that has hit the shop this week. We did the shoot on Bev's roof - she lives on Charing Cross Road - and the views are PHENOMENAL!! Nelson's Column, Big Ben, The Wheel and every cute little chimney stack in between. So amazing. YOU ARE ALL GOING TO DIE when you see the pics by the shop's bestie fav photographers Sarah Lee and Bev herself! Afterwards, we went and had a drink together at the Coach and Horses which was not only a fab chillax for all of us, but for me it was the total total unwind required after the super hectic work I have had going at my other job.


A gang of beautiful women.

Chilli, like the coolest dog ever. She barked at all the loser drunk men with floppy hair, pink shirts and pinker cheeks.

Cute Pippa, actually wearing an A.P.C. smock dress. You will die for these. And there isn't going to be that many left - now that Pippa has one herself in every colour.

Two models and a photographer.

That is not J-Lo even though it looks a bit like it, with Bev who has great pins and lovely feet to go with them.

ANYWAY - you are going to have to hang on a few more days while we capture video, download photos and get film processed before you can check out the work we did tonight - or you can race into Shop At Maison B and nab the pieces you want before anyone else does! [When I saw it all, I screamed! For real! Ask Pippa.]

xx Emma

I <3 SOHO

Today was super busy at work. It started off a really sucky day cause Paul had crashed my computer in the night and didn't bother to fix it so I spent my first waking hour restarting everything :( then realising he had my laptop case at his studio so I hate to take my laptop to work wrapped in a towel in my bag :(( - we've ALL been there! technology huh?!

By the end of my day, I was all cheery again. After work I went over to Maison B and had a couple of bottles of Blush Rose with Pippa, Nathaniel and Paul. I got a sneak preview of the next season Eley Kishimoto collection cause Fiona had set it up in Maison B for a buying appointment. I tell you already I'm going SICK for some of the prints! They are the BEST YET!! Anyway P, N and P had a good gossip and a laugh about nothing and everything.

Paul and I went and had dinner at Aldo's. One of the guys in there has the coolest slogan tshirt "Trattoria da Aldo" printed black on white in the most gangsta rubbish clip art font. I spend the whole evening in there eating and wonder how I could get his tshirt.

Then on the way home I was thinking about the best things about Soho. And I figured you know you are in Soho when:
1] You are out for dinner and you need to pee and the toilets are down two flights of stairs in a basement where your head hits the ceiling and the walls have rising damp three quarters of the way up.
2] You spy a tranny handing out flyers to G-A-Y on Old Compton Street wearing a gold lurex dress hobbling either from her platforms, or her knackers as big as a horse strapped between her legs.
3] Three nutty New Zealanders / Melbournians make you a flat white and a vegemite bagel for breakfast talking about John Farnham and Dave Dobbin at Flat White on Berwick St.
4] Some tramp tries to sell you his "last copy" of what looks to be the Big Issue but is actually ES magazine or something he found in the trash for 2 quid while you drink outside the Coach and Horses with your mates.
5] To get the tube home after work, you have to crowd surf to actually get in the station [Leicester Square in a Friday] or step over a gaggle of pierced teenagers dressed in neon pink and black queuing to see Trivium or Sugarbabes [or both] at the Astoria [Tottenham Court Road]
6] A cute Japanese couple stop you and ask for directions to Bond/Slam City Skates/The World According To... cause the want to buy Silas and Maria
7] You see Pete Burns in Ballans whooping it up
8] Quite a smartly dressed man scurries out of a nearby alley way with his plain plastic shop bag [opaque!] too flushed to make eye contact with you and he smells a bit boozy. It is only 11am.
9] It is the weekend and you have found THE PIECE OF CAKE covered with THE MOST PERFECT STRAWBERRIES and THE BEST CUP OF TEA FOR TWO on Greek Street but you can could actually kid yourself you are in Paris from Maison Bertaux, then pop downstairs and buy and A.P.C. smock.
10] There are no chicken bones on the street. The only "Chicken Cottage" is the kind that goes on in the men's toilet on Broadwick Street.

I <3>

Agent Nick Stokes

Sorry everybody, Shop At Maison Bertaux is only open between 12.30PM and 4:00PM as Pippa and Max are still away in Paris and I have to meet with our accountant Nickesh this afternoon. We are gonna be open as usual Tuesday though. I might have said previously, working at a boutique isn't always glamour!!

I will say though working Soho there is always some excitement. It really is a fabulous place. When I first came to London in 1995, I was instantly addicted to the place with all the seedy sex shops, cheap book shops and funny little cafe's. My first job was at Joseph in Harvey Nichols and with my friend Claudine, we would meet up with her friends after work for a drink at The Coach and Horses at 29 Greek Street. This is where I met people like Fraser Moss and his brother Dan - who were then doing a label called Professor Head that turned into YMC, Barnsley, the infamous Smiler... all amazing creative Soho people. In the summer months, the pavement of Romilly Street was packed with people - then we'd be off to Smashing which was in a basement on Regent Street. The other bar I went to a lot was Riki Tiks on Bateman Street. Then I went back to Tasmania for 8 months to save some money in 1997. When I returned, Soho wasn't the "in place" any more. Everyone had started to go out over in Hoxton - The Bricklayers Arms was the new pub to go to, soon followed by The Dragon Bar on Leonard Street. I have to admit, I was a little bit heart broken. I mean, I would rather not have to step over fried chicken bones on the pavement on my way to the pub in the East End. :) I can't complain though, I have spent enough time over on Old Street to fill a complete blog of it's own! And Pippa and Max DJ quite often at The George and Dragon which is a great pub to go to.

But back in Soho today - on the way to the bank Meard Street was cordoned off with police tape and there were people in white suits scurrying around. Of course my thoughts turned immediately to CSI - the Las Vegas one. Pippa and I both have "a thing" for Nick Stokes played by George Eade. He was the FBI agent who got buried alive in the Quentin Tarantino episode. We were both shocked to see him in a dandruff shampoo commercial recently! [Weren't you!!??] I just did a google search to try and find a picture of Stokes but instead I found this = mrs-nick-stokes.com What a nutter!

xx Emma

Open Sesame!!

This isn't going to be a long post - I'm too tired to write more than a few lines. I just wanted to write that last night's opening party for Shop At Maison Bertaux was a BLAST!!! There were so many people we ran out of glasses, but then it didn't matter cause then we ran out of drinks. It was a fabulous street party out on Greek Street with the throng of guests that came for the opening, the Coach and Horses drinkers and the Somalian mini cab drivers. Phew!! All the work was totally worth it! Pictures and video from the Shop and the after party at Soho House to be posted soon and I'm sure Pippa will have a lot to write from her first day as shopgirl in Shop at Maison Bertaux.

xx Emma

P.S. I had to get up at 7am this morning. Urgh.