DANSK Magazine

Green with envy

My fabulous friend who works at The Wall Group in NYC, hopped over the pond a few weeks back, and smuggled through the purported nail polish of the season – yep – CHANEL #407, in JADE (and here I was thinking that anything Chanel should only travel outbound from Paris – alas, it sold out here long ago).

Curious to see what all the fuss was about … we poured a glass of vino and sat down to bond over a nail-painting session, suffering serious flashbacks of teenagehood. As for the results, green we became indeed, seriously envious of anyone with the deliciously bronzed skin tone that will do this minty colour justice.

And having long-ago learned that by no stretch of the imagination will I ever be even slightly tan, I went ahead and passed my Jade onto my 14-year-old cousin in Copenhagen. Now I hear the little bottles of green are going for a hundred + bucks on eBay (OMG, it’s nail polish people!) leaving me, well, nails au natural, and more broke than ever.

www.chanel.com / image courtesy of DANSK

Veilhan versus Versailles

After spending most of my Sunday in front of the Mac, attempting to meet Monday deadlines, I was feeling completely aesthetically depraved – and so – decided to hop on the RER to Versailles and check out Xavier Veilhan’s Veilhan Versailles exhibit; a splashy display of over-sized modernist sculpture – quite delightful amidst all the absurd decadence that reminds you why there was a revolution around these parts.

Veilhan is repped by one of Paris’ best: Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin – the Marais gallery that is a must for anyone even remotely culturally inclined… So, next time Paris is on the plan be sure to drop by the gallery, or if you’re up for the suburban adventure, hail the RER C – in that case though, best hurry up: the Versailles exhibit only runs through December 12.

www.galerieperrotin.com / image courtesy DANSK