Vive La France! Bastille Day!
So its ‘Vive La France’ as Marianne ‘jumps onto Eurostar’ to join the French in their national holiday Bastille Day. Many celebrations are afoot & Ms Marianne does not want to miss out! So I booked her a ticket & well she was off! Her fashion look is ‘decidedly French‘ first choosing a beautiful floppy hat using French fashion icon Lou Dillon as inspiration – & why not?? Then the colours had to be the red white & blue of the French flag. The hat is tastefully accented with ribbon’s (not too much as we don’t want to go ‘over board’) red, white & blue necklaces, (of course) a ribbon ‘doubling as a necklace’ (& a very successful look too) a blue ‘chic’ casual vest, decorated with a red flower brooch & to finish off an ‘improvised’ white net shrug. All in all I feel capturing the ‘Spirit of the Bastille day in the most perfect way’..even though she’s super busy Marianne still managed to find the time to send me a lovely picture of her in front of the Eiffel tower, & it looks like she is getting into the spirit of things! Well I can only make a nod to this day at home by enjoying a croissant & a ‘cafe au lait’, whilst pondering on this very important national holiday & ‘take myself back in time’ to this day in 1789, when the storming of the Bastille prison took place initiating the start of the French revolution.. & as ‘Marianne’ is the feminine symbol of French freedom it’s only fitting that she should be over in Paris today. Apparently you can watch the fireworks online (not the same I know but well…) I’m definitely going to check this out! I’m sure lots of fireworks & explosion’s are fitting way to celebrate Bastille Day! I hope Marianne will return invigorated & ‘ready to rumble’ in a French fashion ‘stylee’ way!..(well we’ll see…but I’m sure it’s gonna be good!)