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

Salut !

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.🤓 I’m excited to start writing this newsletter again to share each week my observations and what I’m learning about style, fashion and the arts in general.

In between enjoying some downtime after passing my exams and reflecting on the past few months, it’s been fun to watch a bit more sports than usual. I’ve watched a couple of EURO 2024 football matches and I’m looking forward to tomorrow night’s France-Spain game. I have no idea which team to cheer for because I like both of them, but I guess I’ll just cheer for both and thus, double the fun!⚽️

Most importantly, there has been a lot to follow on the tennis front lately. Wimbledon is in progress and I am eager to see if Carlos Alcaraz will win the Grand Slam (Grand Chelem in French😜) this year too. 

About a month ago I had the privilege to see some tennis live for the first time in my life when I visited Roland Garros here in Paris. I only managed to get tickets for the outside courts, but there were some nice matches to see there as well, and it was already great to experience the tennis buzz on site and observe the stylishly dressed visitors.🎾

In addition to enjoying the atmosphere there, I learned an important style lesson during my first day there : We must remember to check if we have chocolate on our noses after eating crêpes!

Yes. I ate a Nutella crêpe and walked happily around the Roland Garros grounds for some time, then I got a seat at an outside court to watch the handsome Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas play and I opened my front camera some time after to take a little selfie (as I had no one there to take my picture), and what do I know, I had been walking around with chocolate on my nose for all of that time!😂

Fortunately, I didn’t run into anyone that I know, and the chocolate stain wasn’t that big, but still, I reckon it was a bit too big for others to believe it was a mole. So I decided that in order to avoid similar mishaps in the future, I must either eat a chocolate crêpe with a friend (one of the true kind, who lets you know if you have chocolate on your nose😀), or that I must remember to check in a mirror or on my phone’s front camera if I have any chocolate residue on my face after eating.

What’s even funnier about this incident, is that I even had a small mirror for this purpose in my purse with me, and I truly tried to wipe my lips well after eating, but it just wasn’t enough. I should’ve either wiped my nose too or used my small mirror. Oh well. C’est la vie! It’s not easy to remain dignified while having a fondness for chocolate crêpes. I just hope the people that saw my chocolate nose that day had a good laugh about it. Maybe my chocolate nose made someone’s day slightly better.

I hope this story either reminded you to check your nose every once in a while or to just embrace the hazardous nature of chocolate.

Have a stylish week (with or without chocolate on your nose)!

Bisous,

Elle

❣️Recent delights

• Walking on the streets of Helsinki and Paris and looking at old buildings.
• I rewatched La la land and forgot how well Ryan Gosling is dressed in the film and how well he plays the piano.
• Rediscovering Uniqlo’s good quality basic garments.