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Article: Secrets of French style: she may have spent hours in front of the mirror, but she doesn't look like it. Her clothes may be expensive, but she doesn't flaunt it. Chic contradictions are what define women from the world's most celebrated fashion capital.(French Style)
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- Harper's Bazaar
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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If a boy from New York defined a chic Frenchwoman as someone who puts herself together "with a certain je ne sais quoi," you'd probably tune out and reach for your iPod. But when that boy happens to be Marc Jacobs--who just signed with Louis Vuitton for another 10 years--you better sit up and listen. Jacobs quickly rattles off his favorite chic-ies, including Yves Saint Laurent muses Betty Catroux and Loulou de la Falaise: "Their personal style is A+"; Jane Birkin, because "she's always young, perfect and easy"; 25-year-old actress Ludivine Sagnier, for always being "sexy-looking"; and, of course, Catherine Deneuve, because "she is France." Jacobs, in identifying this ...