{"id":1821,"date":"2011-04-04T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlottastermaria.fr\/blog\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2018-05-26T21:55:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T19:55:26","slug":"at-made-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carlotta.land\/index.php\/2011\/04\/04\/at-made-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"At ‘Made in France’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last week, I accompanied someone I currently work with to Made in France, “salon de la haute fa\u00e7on”, an annual trade show\u00a0rassembling France’s best toll manufacturers. That was the first time I visited a trade show, and I discovered a special atmosphere… as well as the samples displaying the manufacturers’ best work.<\/p>\n

There were some prestigous brands on the labels. Balmain, Kenzo, a lot of Balenciaga, a few English brands, Sonia Rykiel or Agn\u00e8s B. We were interested in coats, but I realized that most of those brands sell them around \u20ac1000 or much, much more. It’s certainly not the first time this question pops up (more here<\/a> if you’re fluent in French) but who, in France, can still afford to wear something made in France? I guess the same goes with most western countries…<\/p>\n

I won’t answer to this question, but the manufacture’s representatives certainly did ; they wear their products pretty well, and they’re always happu to show you an incredibly interfaced jacket, a pair of shorts with the seams entirely bound in satin, or a cashmere jacket with seams so perfect that it doesn’t need a lining. After marvelling at those techniques, I felt like a pretty hopeless seamstress, but also realized that first, I was rather ashamed of my trench coat from the Gap, and then, that without being really conscious of it, it had been six months since I last bought something from H&M or Uniqlo, my favorite ready-to-wear stores. Ever since, I feel funny while thinking about a grandmother’s sensible words : “I can’t afford cheap things”… Damn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, I accompanied someone I currently work with to Made in France, “salon de la haute fa\u00e7on”, an annual trade show\u00a0rassembling France’s best toll manufacturers. That was the first time I visited a trade show, and I discovered a special atmosphere… as well as the samples displaying the manufacturers’ best work. There were someContinue reading “At ‘Made in France’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[181],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlotta.land\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlotta.land\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlotta.land\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlotta.land\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlotta.land\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carlotta.land\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2310,"href":"https:\/\/carlotta.land\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions\/2310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlotta.land\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlotta.land\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlotta.land\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}