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"  9:00 AM: Paris is unusually bright and sunny this week so I started my day off with a run in Le Jardin des Plantes \u2014 The Pretenders, The Pixies and Professor Genius on my Paris playlist. I love the section of the park next to the zoo where I spotted a couple of adorable tree-dwelling, ring-tailed petit pandas. So cute! 11:00 AM : After a perfect croissant from my favorite bakery, Miss Manon in the 4th, I headed over to Les Tuileries for my first buying appointments of the week. My customers will love the tough-chic leather boots from Fiorentini+Baker and will wear them with the latest selection of whimsical Japanese socks from Antipast. After all that hard work, a shopping pit stop was in order, so I popped into Colette to see the latest trendy fashion hits. I drooled over the candy-colored fringed bags from Loewe and of course they were already sold out of my size in the grey hi-top Keds \u2014 a collaboration with artist Jenny Holzer. Colette is always the place for some of the best people watching in Paris. 3:00 PM: From there I rushed down to the 6th to catch the Isabel Marant show. I was in no danger of missing it considering it started over an hour late! I loved the gorgeous white shearling vests and coats, the sleeveless tuxedo jackets and the distressed fringed Navajo sweaters and Navajo embroidered jeans. I&amp;#039;m not sure who is really going to be wearing the white-fringed leather micro-mini dress with matching boots, but it looked fabulous on the runway. 5:00 PM: Back to the Marais for my last appointment of the day with Christophe Lemaire \u2014 a sophisticated collection of draped oversized jackets, pleated trousers and yummy cashmere sweaters. The designer himself was elsewhere, busy with the final preparations for his first show for Hermes Sunday night, I presume. 7:00 PM: Time for a glass of champagne! I stopped in at neighborhood favorite \u2014 Le Progres \u2014 to raise a glass of bubbly for my friend Emily&amp;#039;s birthday. 8:00 PM: Next over to the flat of event planner Josh Hickey near the cool canal St-Martin for some delicious Sancerre where I met up with Nancy Wang from LCD Soundsystem. 10:00 PM: When hunger pangs finally could not be denied, we hopped in a taxi and headed to the 18th to forage for food. After trying both Hotel Amour and Maison Mere (it was Friday night during Fashion Week and we didn&amp;#039;t have a reservation anywhere), we popped into the A.P.C. party before finding a late-night spot for couscous. 2:00 AM: Our gang grew to include a few more ex-pat friends from New York and James Murphy and we headed off in search of the Colette party. We arrived just around closing time, so happily and sleepily we called a cab to deliver us back to our beds. One day down, five to go! See more of our Fall 2011 Fashion Week Diaries. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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