This week, Nespresso kept Union Station commuters and travelers well caffeinated with its Nespresso VertuoLineTM Pop-Up, one of the first stop of a 108-days, 17 cities pop-up tour. The main goal of the pop-up tour is to introduce Nespresso's new VertuoLine system in the United States and Canada. Not familiar with Nespresso? In the world of single-serve coffee machines, it's kind of like the Apple to Keurig's Microsoft. Nespresso dominates the proportioned coffee market in Europe the way that Keurig dominates it in the United States. My mom's had a Nespresso machine for years. I would have loved to get one but I really don't drink espresso everyday. My husband and I didn't want to clutter ...
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Longchamp Store Coming to CityCenterDC
Hot on the heels of the announcement that Chef Daniel Boulud is planning to open a DBGB restaurant at CityCenterDC comes another great (French) news for downtown D.C.: Longchamp is also planning to set up shop at CityCenterDC. Awesome news... well, perhaps not for my wallet. Which, actually, happens to be a Longchamp wallet. What I love about Longchamp is that it is still owned and managed by the Cassegrain family who founded it in Paris back in 1948. Oh, and I love their signature Pliage bags of course... but did you know Longchamp initially started as a leather goods' company, selling leather-covered items for smokers then leather wallets and pouches? Now you do ;-) And I love that they ...
Guest Post ~ My Trip to Paris by Cecile
Gertrude Stein once said “America is my country and Paris is my hometown.” I couldn't agree more! When I am in Paris, I feel very much at home and become une petite Parisienne. Of course, it helps that my father is a francophile and my mother is, well, une vraie Parisienne. She used to live near the picturesque Place des Vosges and I grew up hearing all about Paris, its culture and its fashion. I'm lucky that I get to visit about once a year, and I'm thrilled to share with you a few of the things I love the most about my hometown... ... starting with fashion. French women always manage to look effortlessly chic, elegantly maneuvering the cobblestone streets of le Marais in their Louboutins ...
Moi Président de la République…
... j'ouvrirais les jardins du palais de l'Elysée*. It was a gorgeous, yet cold, fall day in Paris. A perfect day for the French presidential palace to open its ornate wrought-iron gate (topped with a golden French rooster, cocorico please!) to the public for the first Elysée gardens open house tour of the year. Starting with today, visitors will be able to stroll the green grass of the palais every last Sunday of the month. That's better than the bi-annual White House Garden Tour, though there's no kitchen garden at l'Elysée... I must say, Francois Hollande's new policy to open the 18th-century Elysée Palace gardens to the public every last Sunday of the month (they were ...
S’il Vous Plait… Dessine Moi Un Ispahan
There are many reasons you should visit the Galeries Lafayette on boulevard Haussmann during your visit in the city of light. First, of course, there's the shopping. You can find anything you want at the Galeries, from a bedskirt to books, cartier watches, chanel bag or kookai skirts, gourmet food, books and Paris souvenirs. You can even buy macarons from Pierre Hermé's not so secret boutique: Pierre Herme has a store inside the Galeries Lafayette in l'espace createurs Then of course, there's the building itself. You'll never look at your local mall the same way after seeing the Galeries' stunning ceiling: The current store opened in 1912 and is an elegant setting for your ...
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