The French Fashion Icon Who’s Sharing Her Little Black Book..."Nice paper and a lot of pictures" were Inès de la Fressange's two major requests to her publisher as she embarked on the Parisian Chic City Guide, the sequel to her New York Times best seller Parisian Chic: A Style Guide, which was translated into Polish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Chinese, among other languages. The book, which comes out in February from Flammarion, focuses on the little-known spots de la Fressange has become an expert at locating. "If people want the address of Prada, they don't need me," she says. "It doesn't mean I don't like Prada, but they have a smartphone [for that]. Nowadays, when you can see everything on the internet, there's sometimes too much choice." De la Fressange, who is best known as Karl Lagerfeld's longtime muse and as a brand ambassador for Roger Vivier, is also on her sixth season of an ongoing Uniqlo collaboration. "I work for L'Oréal, also, because I'm worth it," she says of her latest modeling gig as a face of the brand. Despite being this busy, she didn't find writing the guide to be that taxing. She justifies it as follows: "This way I am less guilty [about] being a shopaholic and going out to discover places, because at least now it's useful." She concentrated on designers who "don't belong to a [luxury] group, and people wouldn't know them [otherwise]" — for example, Aurelia Stouls, who makes leather pieces sturdy enough to go in the washing machine. De la Fressange has already turned Lagerfeld, among others, into a fan. "Once, I was wearing her suede flared pants, and I arrived to lunch with the director of a famous magazine here," she recalls, "and she screamed, 'Where did these pants come from?' She didn't even know the brand name. I was very proud, and very happy, to make her discover."



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