It's still the land of Milk & Honey

Direct from cheering on the strikers to a collection viewing at Hotel Crillon. I believe it was Marcel Duchamp who said "I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste."

I came down of my soapbox for an hour and jumped on one of the functioning metros to place de la Concorde to attend a private view of the Erin Fetherston Spring Summer collection 2006, "Milk & Honey".

Inside the revolving golden doors of the completely over-the-top Crillon Hotel everyone looks like a Someone. Somehow the Crillon stays in fashion and I'd say the original is the best. You can keep the Hotel Costes, it's only a poor imitation - tres Eurotrash. But perhaps I am the only person not celebrating Freres Costes ownership of every "cool" cafe, hotel and restaurant in this city?

At the end of the day presenting her first ready-to-wear collection Erin was all alone in the suite where the "Milk & Honey" collection was displayed. Not a hair out of place as she cuddled her new Maltese, Koala, she looked serene and said she's enjoyed not producing a catwalk show this défilé de mode. It allowed her to enjoy the collection rather than rushing around backstage.

It's a very grown-up glamorous collection but there are items which could be worn just as well with casual clothes such as the baby doll dresses over jeans.

I am still dreaming about a voluminous coat with a very high collar which she invited me to try on. Amazing golden fabric and the bottom of it came all the way down to hug the back of my knees. It was terribly comfortable and I would love to take it for a night at the Opera. If I had made a run for it she would probably not have been able to stop me, I'm sure I could have overpowered her and Koala.

San Francisco born Fetherston moved here three year' ago and set up her own company in France, no mean feat. Now she's staying on and marrying a Frenchman having cut her teeth on Haute Couture. Like me, she gets sad when good friends up and leave after 6 months for lack of working papaers or other banal reasons. Paris is a transient city.

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[la.dauphine]

Hotel de Crillon is heaven!Loved that quote by Duchamp. Reminds me of the quote from Picasso who said that good taste is the enemy of creativity.