Elle Palmu

The History of the Fashionable ’Parisienne’💄

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of paying a visit to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs to see an exhibition called: "The Birth of Department Stores. Fashion, design, toys, advertising. 1852-1925." I've been wanting to go there for a couple of months already...

Life Lessons

Document and remember your life📸

Do you like to document your day-to-day life through taking photos? I know I do! But this week I've pondered over my relationship with this question a bit more than usual. The reason is because I've started to experiment with taking photos with a small digital camera – and it's been quite fun!

Polo Ralph Lauren stretch piqué button down shirt in light blue

Style Lessons

The Effortless Appeal of Ralph Lauren🏇

I cannot explain how inspired I feel right now! It's actually been a while since I've last had this strong of a feeling of inspiration – and it's wonderful and envigorating. You guessed it by the title of this email, my source of inspiration at the moment is the one and only Ralph Lauren...

Style Lessons

Be Careful When You Button Your Buttons!🛑

This week I'd like to just make a friendly reminder that also serves as a note to self: if you're buttoning a shirt without a mirror, it's useful to check if you buttoned the buttons correctly!

Life Lessons

The Key to Success in Fashion and in Life✅

Lately I’ve been especially inspired by the fashion designer Carolina Herrera’s message of style and elegance. I rewatched a few of her interviews and I realized once again how brilliantly she crafted her career in fashion while having a relatively normal family life outside of fashion...

Life Lessons

The Power of Sports and Identity🤸‍♀️

Salut ! The Olympics are soon coming to an end and I wonder what kind of performances we’ll see during the closing ceremony tomorrow! Speaking of performances, last Sunday’s men’s final tennis match between Djokovic and Alcaraz was legendary.🎾 They were basically playing the same level of tennis,

Life in Paris

Unbelievable performances🤯

Greetings from a sunny Paris where the Olympics are in full swing! As most of us, I haven’t still gotten over how incredible Céline Dion’s performance was in the opening ceremony. It was just legendary, and the most perfect ending for the night...

Life in Paris

All Eyes on Paris 👀🥇

Today is the day! The opening ceremony of the Olympics takes place tonight on the river Seine and the eyes of the whole world turn to my new hometown : Paris! It's just very cool to be able to live during such a historic event.

Style Lessons

A Class Photo or a Ralph Lauren Ad?📸

This week I got to visit some bigger antique fairs with my parents for the first time in France – and it was a fun experience! In addition to finding me a new coffee table, I happened to find a very stylish old photo from a stack of random photos that one of the salesmen had on his table...

Concert Memories

Diana Krall Is Too Cool for School🧊

You know what? I saw Diana Krall play jazz live this week! Which means that I literally breathed the same air as her for about an hour and 45 minutes. How cool is that!😜 What's even cooler is that the concert was at the legendary L'Olympia...

Style Lessons

Remember to Check If You Have Chocolate on Your Nose!😜🍫

It’s been quite a while! I’ve had an intensive, but wonderful spring with my art history courses at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and now it’s time to look for new adventures.🤓

Life in Paris

Some of my French food discoveries so far🥐🍽️

Salut ! I hope you're all doing well.🥰 I've been feeling a bit under the weather these past couple of days, but it's nothing too dramatic. I'm just taking it easy so that I can be back in the game soon enough. Whether

Life in Paris

Some peculiarities of French culture I've noticed so far🇫🇷🇫🇮

Coucou ! Greetings again from a slightly colder, but ever so beautiful, Paris! I have now lived my first week or so as an independent Parisienne, and all I can say is that I am just full of life.🤓 Of course on some of the days I have felt a bit

Life in Paris

New beginnings in Paris🔑

Bonjour à toutes et à tous, My first week in Paris has come to an end, and all I can say is that I already feel at home in this city.🥳 My friends picked me up from the airport on Monday and drove me to my new apartment. Until my

Life in Paris

Paris awaits!✈️

The moment has finally come: I'll begin my new life in Paris tomorrow!🤩 We packed my apartment this week with my parents, and today I left the apartment for good. Of course I got slightly nostalgic about my apartment when I left from there for the last time,

Life in Paris

The apartment hunt is over!⚜️

Hello everyone, Guess what? I finally have an apartment in Paris! I got the news soon after I wrote the previous newsletter, and I've been over the moon since. I have still been kind of sick though, but I haven't let it slow me down too

The view from my seat at the Sibelius Concert Hall in Lahti, Finland. The orchestra is on stage and ready to play and waiti

Concert Memories

Catchy pieces and goose bumps〰️

As the first sounds from the orchestra reached my ears, I knew the concert would be a wonderful ending to my busy day. Sitting in the concert hall felt...

Concert Memories

The Complete Elegance of the Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter🎻

I’ll never forget this concert because it was the first time in my life that I got to witness the presence of someone who has the sort of extremely rare world-class elegance and charisma. I knew beforehand that she is very stylish...

Concert Memories

A dream night at the opera in Milan✨

It felt almost unreal to step in this mythical opera house and follow the small hallways into our box in the gallery. Until that moment, La Scala had felt so distant when looking from the peripheral perspective of Finland. When I was studying...

Concert Memories

What does Maria Callas and Grigory Sokolov have in common?🎼

Germany, Hamburg, Friday the 28th of April 2023, at 7:30 pm. We had woken up early for a morning flight, flown to Bremen, driven to Hamburg and walked around the city, when the evening came and it was time to familiarize ourselves with the local culture of classical music.