Shop At Maison Bertaux

Shop at Maison Bertaux is Soho's best kept secret...but word's spreading fast! We're now one year old and our regulars can't get enough of our APC, Sonia by Sonia Rykiel Eley Kishimoto and Obey with jewelry by Vivienne Westwood Yura and Princess Tina. You'll love our taste, you'll taste the cakes upstairs and then you'll be HOOKED!

Thursday, July 05, 2007

COINCIDENTALLY PARIS!

I haven't shown my face on the Maison B blog for a loooon time. So here is a report from me [but let's rewind backwards] with all the news I got to bring.

Last weekend, I was in Paris and as a happy co-incidence, so were Max and Pippa buying for the A.P.C. collection! So it was omlettes and Rosé all round. Pippa and I were DV camera's all up in each others faces cause we are in the middle of making another video for Madame. But here is the real co-incidence: of all the shops in Paris and all the things we could buy - Pippa and I both had gone past the same shop at different times and ogled the same jewellery. Only I was the only one who bought it. Pippa was too gutted for words. I let her have a little turn of them in the A.P.C. showroom. But not too long.

We were also on a mission to find Fifi Chachnil. It isn't on Rue de Chambon any more. And the number isn't the one listed in the Time Out guide. On a MISSION I actually stopped a family with a young grumpy looking baby and a father with bored death eyes to get the mother to listen to the new number on the phone for the new shop and write it down for us... It was worth it! 40% off in Fifi Chachnil!!



Okay and so the week before that, my friends Jacob [from Paperrad] and David were in town with their band Extreme Animals. They are touring round Europe. The first gig was at the Old Blue Last where DJ Brain and Silverlink asked Cassette Playa and I to have a booty dance off challenge. I won. Don't cry Cassette Playa. You can share my glory.


Hmmm... The week before that, it was my friend Thugly's birthday. Thugly is one of the 7 Year Glitch crew. He had cocktails at the Hilton. Here is a pic of internet thug and epicenter of the UK grime scene, Prancehall, ordering off menu and getting one of the most fabulous strawberry daquaris I've seen.


But at risk of being thrown in the Big Brother diary room - maybe that drink is a bit gay? Look at his pinky finger.

The coolest thing that has happened though is Paul B. Davis had his exhibition at Seventeen gallery on Kingsland Road for the last month. It was a lot of new media, computer and video art. Here is a picture of the video Paul made in collaboration with Jacob Ciocci which is in essence two YouTube videos mixed together not using a video editing software, but actually editing the source at code [like all the 000's and 111's and 101's etc] to 'beatmatch' musically and visually Rhiannas "Umbrella" and The Cranberries "Zombie".

It was really cool - the audio mixed perfectly while the visuals were faces of the two different artist morphing into the other in a sea of pixels and distortion.

Okay - so enough from me, I got to get editing video from Paris! Nice talking to you all again!

xx Emma

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Saturday, October 28, 2006

What is Pippa up to?!

I left work to night with Pippa waving goodbye and telling me to "check out for my next blog!" I assumed that she meant TONIGHT!! I'm dying to see her pictures we took this afternoon.

Last night we were down at Trisha's to see All About Eve Babitz play and it was excellent cause Liza and Cheryl are back in town and I didn't get to say hello to them till then.

I look a little bit too excited.


Also it was lovely to see Sarah come down. She has been a regular customer at The World According To... for a long time and she has a sense of humour that we well appreciate! Last time she was in The World According To... with me, I was crying laughing with her about a knitted grey tube dress with sleeves longer than the hem and a pair of jeans she had tried on once in from the sale bin. That reminds me - Pippa was not wearing that dress today!!

Sarah told me a wonderful story from when she was three years old. She decided to give herself plastic surgury by shoving the nose off her rubber Kermit the frog up her own nose thinking that it would transform her own face into the wonderful curvy pac-manesque profile of Kermit the frog. Sarah ended up in hospital having Kermits nose removed from her own.


And last for tonight, here are some pics Paul took in Ireland of Paperrad while they worked on their installation one night.





COOL! If you didn't check it already, watch the Paperrad video that they made with Paul spoofing Pippa's fashion video!

xx Emma

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Sunday, October 22, 2006

PAPERRAD!!

Wow - I've slacked off the posting this week. Katrina and I have spent a bit of time meeting up before she goes back to Australia this weekend - vegemite on toasted bagels and coffee for breakfast at Flat White for starters! YUM! But the rest of the time just work work work.
HERE IS THE HOT NEWS:
Last weekend when I was swanning around Liege with Mash Gordon, Big Pabs was over in Ireland visiting his friends Jacob Ciocci, Ben Jones and Jessica Ciocci, the three artists who make up American collective Paperrad. They guys were over form America installing an exhibition there. Paperrad have been making neon screen prints, spazzed out zines, performing as a variety of different bands [Dr Doo, Extreme Animals], their
AWESOME website and now they have recently published a book B.J. and The Dogs and Ben works a lot making videos for people like Beck [I don't rate Beck much, but the video is super cool] and The Gossip. IMHO these dudes have been rocking their neon styles for years and have really influenced a lot of people who are into "neu-rave", unicorns and mystical webdesign. So while Paul had the DV camera out, Paperrad saw Pippa's fashion files [post last week] and were inspired to pimp their own steelo just for us!! COOL!!



Ben tries to convince us he is into neu-rave and DFA... somehow I don't believe him. Jessica looks amazing! And Jacob only wears shoes indoors.

xx Emma

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