BONJOUR PARIS: Cheese platters. Striped shirts. Eiffel Tower souvenirs. Artists doing live portraits, Montmartre-style. A mime with a toy baguette and beret.
Guests could easily play a game of “spot the Parisian clichés” at the opening of Jeanne Damas’ first boutique for her fashion label Rouje, which she coupled with the inauguration of her first restaurant, Chez Jeanne.
This was made even more fun by the fact that all women seemed to have the same look: red lips, mussed-up hair, red floral print dress. Of course, there was a lot of smoking.
Damas was looking radiant, if a little bemused at the raucous party raging within the walls of her new venture, a chic brasserie adjacent to the Rouje boutique on the Rue Bachaumont in the 2nd arrondissement.
“Growing up, I would always hang out in my parents’ restaurant,” said the influencer-turned-designer. “I remember being in pajamas alongside pretty well-known clients, like Johnny Hallyday and Jean Paul Gaultier, and that at the time dinners were very long, very loud and smoke-filled.”
Not much has changed there — save that Gaultier had been swapped for Simon Porte Jacquemus. The designer was holding court at a long table packed with Parisian friends, laughing and talking over each
Guests could easily play a game of “spot the Parisian clichés” at the opening of Jeanne Damas’ first boutique for her fashion label Rouje, which she coupled with the inauguration of her first restaurant, Chez Jeanne.
This was made even more fun by the fact that all women seemed to have the same look: red lips, mussed-up hair, red floral print dress. Of course, there was a lot of smoking.
Damas was looking radiant, if a little bemused at the raucous party raging within the walls of her new venture, a chic brasserie adjacent to the Rouje boutique on the Rue Bachaumont in the 2nd arrondissement.
“Growing up, I would always hang out in my parents’ restaurant,” said the influencer-turned-designer. “I remember being in pajamas alongside pretty well-known clients, like Johnny Hallyday and Jean Paul Gaultier, and that at the time dinners were very long, very loud and smoke-filled.”
Not much has changed there — save that Gaultier had been swapped for Simon Porte Jacquemus. The designer was holding court at a long table packed with Parisian friends, laughing and talking over each