day two.

After last night’s riskè bath, me and Hélène sat up drinking some more and talking about all the wild parties that had gone on in these four walls over the years. She has had quite a colourful life and doesn’t look a day over 30. I didn’t ask how old she was though. Rude. Après hours of her tales and too much to drink, I hit my mo-hare sack and went out like one of her quirky little lamps.

I didn’t close the curtain last night either. Half because I didn’t want to shut out Paris and half because I forgot. Still, I woke up pretty much blinded by the clouds of stale smoke. Yak. Before long Hélène was in my room, singing some French ditty and making me a brew. Good morning Paris, you absolute sweetheart.

Breakfast was non-existent because I left it too late and had to be out of the door and on the metro by eight. I met Annie, who is looking after me throughout my intern at a café close to Musée du Louvre. I was early and she was late so I grabbed a seat and ordered my second heavy dose of caffeine pre 9 ‘o’ clock. Ouch.
At first glances, Annie could easily be a French girl. She’s got Olsen-ette brown waves and immediately apologized for having sleepy eyes. She didn’t at all, she’s really pretty. I think she’s just a very busy bee, skipping around the city, doing errands and balancing her time between the Office and Vanessa’s(The Stylist) house, in the 4th arrondissement apartment.

Annie told me all about what I should expect over the next few weeks and quizzed me on my previous interns. I told her all about Distill magazine and how it had opened my eyes to the fact that I didn’t have to limit myself to London. Annie has been working for Vanessa for just over 4 months so she was a newbie to the job too, which put me at ease as she explained everything about the role I’m going into. Most of the shoots she’s done have been editorials for POP magazine but also look books and private clients, such as Missoni. Basically my job is to make Annie’s job easier, less stressful and make sure everything is super duper under control. I’ll tell you more about the projects as they come up as things are being kept hush hush at the moment.

I start properly tomorrow so we just did lots of diary dotting and then she took off for her first appointment of the day. I meet Vanessa tomorrow, who is the stylist that I am interning for. Eeeek. She is represented by an agency called Streeters, really nice people and you can have a peek at some of her work on their site. Tap in: http://www.streetersnewyork.com/
Then search under ‘Stylists’ for Vanessa Reid. Pretty cool.

The rest of my day was spent having lunch with Hélène and her good friend who after all that time I still cannot pronounce his name properly. I must learn to train my voice. Anyhow he was really interested in what I am doing and told me about his friend, who is Stylit Eric Damon, who’s worked on SACT and Gossip Girl. He was online in record time, excited to show me just how far his friend had gone from his pretty modeling days. Check out this you tube of Eric’s new book.
Tap this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YNZDWkNZVc. SO FUNNY.

Bye now.
xxxx