JEAN TOUITOU'S BLOG

JEAN TOUITOU EST LE CRÉATEUR DE LA MARQUE FRANCAISE A.P.C. CRÉÉE EN 1987. IL VIT ET TRAVAILLE A PARIS
ジャン・トゥイトゥーはフランスのファッションブランド A.P.C.を1987年に設立。パリで活動している。

Didn't know I could type in Japanese huh? Well I can't. I just copied and paste that part from the header of Jean Touitou's Blog, which is called just that.

Things I know about Jean Touitou:
He is the creater of A.P.C.
He works in France
He used to work for Joseph
He collaborated with Jessica Ogden on the A.P.C. Madras range
Max and Pippa have met him

Things I learnt about Jean Touitou tonight from reading his blog:
His notes are FUCKING hilarious
His photos are AMAZING and also hilarious
He only has two friends that are the same age
His office is now in the A.P.C. recording studio
He discovered a particular species of youth the "fringed whore"

Monsieur Touitou - please excuse me for ripping your work to put on the Maison B blog. But more people just have to see it!

And blog readers, below is a selection of stuff I have snatched from the Jean Touitou Blog at honeyee.com
I suggest you visit there as quickly as possible it is inspiring and HILARIOUS.


I wish this car mine.
この車が欲しいなあ。

I walk　into the club, Judith , Christopher and myself are astounded : The young only think about their hair, and the old are just too ugly.
ジュディットとクリストファーと一緒にクラブへ入った瞬間、三人で唖然としてしまった。若い連中はみんな自分のヘアスタイルのことしか考えていない。一方、年寄は醜いなんてもんじゃない。

Type of youth who only thinks about his hair, fingering it every thirty seconds .
I also call this species of youth " fringed whore" .
自分の髪のことしか頭にない若い子のスタイル。３０秒おきに自分の髪を触るタイプだ。僕はこういう人種を
" fringed whore"とも呼ぶ。



Can anybody believe it's so complicated to get out of the toilets ?
You never know what button needs to be pushed to flush that thing.
お手洗いにこんなに複雑な機械があるって、信じられるかい？
流すのに、どのボタンを押せばいいのか、さっぱりわからない。


I am working on a dress for Sofia Coppola. It's fun to make the outmoded posture of a fashion designer at work. Here I play an ironic comedy about myself.
ソフィア・コッポラのためのドレスを製作中なんだ。いかにも昔のクチュリエの様な時代外れの古くさいポーズをとるのが面白かった。自分に対する皮肉った演出をして遊んでみた。

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And the joke about the Italian women's shoes you will have to flick through the blog and find yourself cause I can't find it again now. I snorted laughing! But there a loads of pictures of food, behind the scenes at A.P.C., Jessica Ogden on holiday and pictures from gigs and studios. Everything in English and Japanese - a nice treat for some I am sure.

xx Emma

SPRING AT MAISON B

Okay - so now you get to see what the Shopgirls do when YOU aren't in the shop... We try on the things we really want and right now its -
THE GIRLY STUFF: it is either the A.P.C. Madras stuff from Jessica Ogden [£55 for a dress!! NO I'm NOT joking!!] OR anything from Eley Kishimoto's Spring Summer collection.
THE T SHIRTS: we are picking out the best Obey prints and it's tough - they are all awesome.



The music in this video is the track (Let's Go) Get Lost by Patrick Wolf.

Ladies, don't get sad cause we look so incredible. Trust me - it is the clothes making us that way!! Come downstairs to Maison B and get something hot for yourself from Madame. And upstairs you can pick up a cheesey soufflé which is our new bestie fav for morning tea.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend!

xx Emma

summer breeeeeeze!

Writing this with the door open, a gentle breeze wafting my washing on the line....I know it's sign that I should get out more but few things make me happier than being able to hang out the washing....actually forget I said that, makes me sound tres tres tragique, non?

Slightly subdued though today as Liza and Ima went back to Canada for probably quite a few months; the boys will miss them LOADS and so will I, they're like family now...Ima has a new skin-tone costume in rubber that makes her look like a five foot real life doll (prolly 5'8 in heels!!) and I really hope customs don't find it/DO find it! cos it's going to be such a funny story.....after the event!!

Went to see Patrick Wolf at the Astoria the other night which was incredible! I love him, and have known him since he was about 12 years old (jonathan and I were talking about him and Bishi the other day at one of our coffee mornings and how we met her at Pig Lingo, I met Patrick out and about at gigs....and we thought how we weren't doing ANYTHING cool at 12!!! How fabulously precocious they were!!). Anyhoo, the crowd went MENTAL and adore him, and it's so well deserved, he was always going to be huge, it was just a case of when....My favourite moment was when he and Bishi did the Marianne Faithful/Patrick track "Magpie" which is on the new album - go out and buy it IMMEDIATELY!!!!!

Mark Eley swung by on Thursday in his g-wizz which is printed all over in the "flash" print which has become a modern classic and seems to work on any scale - and they're environmentally friendly too!!! And you can buy one!!!!!!!!!

This next week I start rehearsing with my band again after Daren's back from holiday, and in a shameless act of self-promotion I can announce that we've just had our cds pressed, available of course from Shop at Maison Bertaux!

See you soon, Jessica Ogden's summer APC collection arrives this week so hope to see you for some crisp cotton threads!
madame xxx