Are You Ready For Paris?

You have a little over 36 hours until the Paris portion of fashion month begins. I suggest you brush up in the following ways:

1) Watch this video of Nicholas Kirkwood's Autumn/Winter 2009 line of shoes and then see how many pairs you see on actual editors/models/insiders at the shows. I bet you there's a near one-for-one match!



Did that make you feel dirty? Inexplicably in need of something delightfully wholesome? Move on to two quick...

2) Here's a Warhol-esque screen test featuring Kaiser Karl. Who's more Paris than Karl?



Wait, that didn't make you feel better did it? Maybe you feel worse. Um, here, move on to #3.

3) Watch Anthony Bourdain wait for that most Parisienne staple of life, a baguette freshly made in a boulangerie:



Wait, this is fashion week...nobody eats. Sorry! No bread for you!

4) Ok, why don't you go shopping at Paris's tre magnifique boutique Colette.



I could listen to that man talk for hours. I especially loved how he said "hoodie" at the 4:57 mark. Ooooodies.

5) Last, but not for a second least, take a tour of Alice's Paris apartment.



I have no idea who Alice is, but I thoroughly enjoyed that.

There. Do you feel more prepared for Paris fashion week? Me neither, but that was fun!

Jak and Jil Went Up the Heel

Jak and Jil is a fashion editor heavy street style site I've become obsessed with, and the site is absolutely obsessed with shoes. The site's shots of mostly French feet variously booted, heeled, sandaled, and stilettoed are a foot fiend's dream.

The Louboutin for Rodarte's pictured bottom left redefine spiked heel, no?

With the speed of comings and goings in fashion reaching lightning bolt pace, I know the moment of sky-high, sleek shoes will soon be a short-term memory, but for now foot fetishists can delight in Jak and Jil's sexy finds.

All images copyright Jak and Jil.com, please do not reproduce them without properly crediting the creators. Thanks.