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As for every big change in life I wanted to change my look and to have my face cleared out… And since my hair are short, I have several little strands coming out of the braids which, according to Pauline D really looks like a little dragon… She knows how to talk to me… 

And as I rarely do things by half, there is novelty on my arm… A blue peony coming out of my Hokusai wave, realized by the talentedDamien Electric tattoo… Damien lives in London but often comes to Paris at Hand in Glove on Trousseau Street… The easiest way to contact him if you’re tempted is to send him as email via son facebook. I’m crazy about this color which is so vibrant, almost hypnotic, everybody asks me if it’s a real one. Compare to this peony, my wave suddenly aged…  

So this is with that pinterest board that I met Fred at Chateau D’eau, Passage Brady, at Dovi’s. Dovi was filmed by Fred for this exposition at the Quai Branly last year, she scares me a little, she has about 2000 braids on her head. Fred is there to make the artistic direction of everything that happens on my head for the last two years and so far I’m never disappointed, everything will be fine. The adventure starts on the wrong foot, no signal, no wifi, no pinterest. I’m not sure Dovi gets the subtlety of the urban tribal braid Fred has in mind. I’m sacred, a little. We run buy some fake hair at a shop nearby. I think about some friends who came back from Thailand with flatten mini braids and multicolors beads at their ends. Cold sweat (in my mullet). Everything will be fine. I’m in the store, it’s crazy, so many things, hair of every colors except mine, I met coco oil, crazy barrettes, incredible hair mannequin heads, wigs that I never would have imagined… Too many possibilities. At the cashier it costs us 6 euros of fake hair. Dovi talks about Beyonce. It’s going to be okay, and suddenly my eyes stop on multicolor plastic beads, my jaw is clenching… 

2 doliprane later, I’m literally hypnotized with the small screen showing the tv show Coeur Océan (the dialogues are SO profound…). Fred had to leave and I find myself alone with Dove who braids like a machine. She starts the top of my head. I’m holding my breath but my artistic director did a good job and I feel my inner Beyonce appears in the passage Brady. 

 

• earring circles
• crewel
• small resin fruits
• cutting pliers
• round nose pliers
• a pair of scissors
• small rings
• metal rods
• rocaille beads.

First of all, let’s learn how to make little pompom with some thread, that I’m sure will end up on all of your creations. Take 70 cm of crewel. 

Fold it in half, then again in half, repeat the operation until it makes less than 5 cm. Then take a small ring and put the thread into it. 

Place the ring at the center of you small bundle of thread, cut about 10 cm of crewel. 

Fold your small bundle of thread in half around the ring and use the extra 10 cm of thread to fix the lot: make a few circles and a few knots. 

Grab your scissors and but the loops to make your pompom, then refresh its cut for it to be perfect. 

Repeat the steps as many time as you want pompoms (you’ll see that it gets enjoyable quite fast). And now let’s get to the fruits! 

Wind the rod on itself to make a small ring and repeat the steps for the other fruits. 

Then thread your fruits and pompoms into your earring circles as you wish. We made two different earrings to be even more tutti frutti ! 

and TA-DA !

Scarf and blouse Tara Jarmon, skirt Derhy, vintage golden bracelets, banana bracelet Marion Godart, blackberry earrings  N2, socksDoré Doré, and shoesWhat For and awesome lemon by Anne Claire Petit.

 Turban Zelda Citroën x Reine Rosalie, tragic in American Apparel x Nathalie du Pasquier, and collar Carven, golden bracelets by Chic Alors, and resin bracelets by Scooter.

  Turban Zelda Citroën x Reine Rosalie, tragic en American Apparel x Nathalie du Pasquier, and collar Carven, Golden Bracelets by Chic Alors, and resine bracelets by Scooter, pants Tara Jarmon, shoes Morgan.

To make all of these paper fruits that you’ll see on the top of my head by the end of the week, rendez-vous on a really awesome american website: Mr Printables…

• BLUEBERRY HILL – Fats Domino
• VEGETABLES – The Beach Boys
• ON A COCONUT ISLAND – The Polynesians
• PINEAPPLE PRINCESS – Annette Funicello
• COCONUT WOMAN – Harry Belafonte
• CHICA BOOM CHIC – Carmen Miranda
• BANANA BOY– Eden Ahbez
• WATERMELON MAN – Mongo Santamaria
• DON'T SIT UNDER THE APPLE TREE– BBC Big Band
• I'M GONNA BRING A WATERMELON – Bonzo Dog Band
• TICO TICO – Carmen Miranda
• MANGO VERT – Lovely's Trinidad String Band
• WHO'S THE STRAWBERRY PATCH WITH SALLY – Tony Orlando & Dawn
•  CHERRY PINK AND APPLE BLOSSOM WHITEC – Perez Prado
• CHERRY PIE – Marvin & Johny
• SALADE DE FRUITS – Andre Bourvil
• WHEN I LOVE, I LOVE – Carmen Miranda
• STRANGE FRUIT – Billie Holiday
• STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER – The Beatles
• A WEEKEND IN HAVANA – Carmen Miranda

• the template of the panties that you’ll find here, here and here (S, M, L)
• some fabric (here we used cotton poplin but you can also use tulle for instance)
• some golden thread
• a sewing machine
• some satin ribbon (about 10m)
• 7 lobsters or other patch to embroider (you can find plenty of them here)
• some tracing paper
• an embroidery ring
• a pair of scissors
• 10 m of elastic (for a 150-cm panties)

• templates that you’ll find here and here (Found in the Complex Packaging book)
• a ruler
• a blunt scalpel 

After you download and print the templates, cut your parts, pin the crotch part with the front part then with the back part. Sew at 0,5 cm from the edge. Then take you second crotch part and place it on top of the previous seam, pin and assemble them as close to the previous seam as possible, you can even superimpose the seams.  

Iron the crotch well to check that all parts are lined up, then on the front part of the panties lightly fold the top for it to be of the same size as the first one. 

Mark this fold with your iron at the junction between the crotch and the front of the panties, pin and sew that part while trying to sew it as close to the edge as possible to superimpose the seams and get a clean result. 

Put your machine on the zigzag stitch position or on the buttonhole stitch with a 1 stitch width (the smallest) and sew this zigzag stitch on every edges of your panties to have a clean finish, like some sort of neatness embroiderer. 

Take small scissors and cut the possible ungraceful threads. You can then download the days file here (in french of in english, your call). Print it and trace the day of your choice.

Then trace it at the center of your panties (here at 2 cm from the top of the panties). Use the embroidery ring to stretch your fabric well and start embroider. 

Make small stitches close from each other, we tried the chain stitch but it was too rough for this typography so make dotted lines of a few millimeters with your embroider stitches. Then take you lobster or other patch, iron it on and embroider it so you won’t loose your seafood in the washing machine! 

Take your elastic (29 cm for the front waist and 29 cm for the back waist and 45 cm for the crotch parts) and start sewing the elastic with a zigzag stitch (stitch width: 4). You have to pull your elastic for it to join both ends of the panties. You’re going to tell me that the elastic length is shorter than the fabric but that’s normal, you have to pull (gently) on the elastic to make him as long as the part you’re applying it on. You have to dose and pull evenly in order to create uniform pleats, it’s all going to be okay you’ll get through it! 

You can already admire the little pleats forming thanks to the elastic and keep it on with the crotches. 

Cut 4 x 30 cm of ribbon (it’s nicer if it’s bevelled), pin them on the ends of the panties and sex them at 0,5 cm of the edges of the panties.  My ribbon comes from Shindo (2 rue d'Aboukir 75002 Paris).

Make nice knots and TA-DA ! 

Now let’s get to the box ! 

Once your templates printed, take your ruler and blunt scalpel and lightly draw the lines you’ll use to ease the folding. Come one: 1, 2, 3 Fold, follow the dotted lines of your templates ! 

You now have to fold again each side on itself several times while sliding the small external stripes or the angles below. Repeat the same steps with the second part of the box which is a little larger… 

Then fold your nice panties: both sides toward the inside. 

And one last fold ! (Yes we thought you might not know how to fold a panties…)

You just have to put it inside the box and TA-DA ! 

And here is a little gif to finish! And since you are the best reader in the whole world, I’d like to thank you by making you win this seven-days set… To do so leave me a comment telling me why you should have it more than anybody else (and tell me your size from XS to XL, I’ll make another set for the winner) ! I’ll draw the winner on next Saturday, I can’t wait to read from you and in the mean time the saturday lobster and I are wishing you a great weekend !

Let’s get to the point: I’m wearing an Antipodium dress, an Asos perfecto, a Reine Rosalie earring. A Le Tanneur handbag. And I’m sticking to my guns by wearing TopShop socks with Sézane heels. 

Thank you Fabrice and Laurence for this making of !! 

Lisa Gachet Makemylemonade & L'Instant Parisien from Fabrice Le Dantec on Vimeo.

In the first phase, after le brief, the inspiration pictures and the choice of the shoot’s universe and the photographer, it’s time to deal with stylization. So we go to press offices to get different clothes and to choose the looks we will then shoot. For this series we went to the Cacharel showroom to select items for the stylization. As you might see, yes, it is an amazing place with a design both pure and sweet as a caress: look at this door ! Even before getting inside the showroom we were dived into a light and colorful world, well simply the Cacharel universe… (and why not a deco/paining stain DIY…?).

To complete the stylization we made little sliver flowers crowns in order to bring to some modernity and a homemade touch to the shoot. Hundreds of little flowers cut with our magical machine: I’m talking about the famous Silhouette (baptized Raoul a few weeks ago). No I’m not watching Breaking Bad while working, and don’t worry I cleaned my office (a little) since that picture…  

And a few days later when the weather stopped being unpredictable we were finally able to shoot with the incredible Charlotte Abramow. There always is some unexpected and we had to change a few looks because of Justine B.’s absence. Imagine Lisa and Alexandra with very few clothes on walking like nymphs in the middle of tourists and kids, a moment of pure magic between trunk’s climbing and hill’s descents. It’s always hard to shoot outside but Charlotte is a pro to find the right place and the perfect light (because yes, light is one of the most important factor inside and outside) !

The difficulty of outside pictures also is to be able to avoid external elements disturbing the image (like passer-by, street lamp or any other typical street furniture you find in parisian parks). Willing to have a savage decor we had to deal with the numerous people who also wanted to enjoy the friday night’s sun. On this picture you can also enjoy this most friendly look Lisa’s giving me. And yet I hadn’t say anything, I didn’t mock or insulted Frida or anything else, the reason of this look remains a mystery… 

Well talking about Frida, it’s true that we see her less now we have our office but at the first opportunity she likes to bring her personal touch and to participate to the stylization by laying down on the clothes (yes I can imagine your disappointment discovering that Frida isn’t only grace and voluptuousness). Yes because the preparation of a shooting is also that: lots of ironing beforehand to avoid losing time on the D day. 

Shooting, phase 2 : smoke ! Unless what we might think looking at the final pictures, it is very hard to control smoke, it’s simple it never obeys. We therefore have no advice to give you if you want to use some unless do it in a ventilated place (it gave us a few coughing fits…). 

I also really wanted to use smoke, I love the idea of an « apparition », a bit like a waking dream. In real like it is actually very hard to use when there is a bit of wind… I smile thinking of some hysterical scenes but I’ll let Charlotte S. tell all these anecdotes in this series’ making of. 

And the stylization… One of my favorite moments when I prepare a shoot. I wanted to find sweet and soft pieces but not too softie. Paster tones without being cheesy. Something modern that I could actually wear in real life. Dresses yes, but with sneakers or boots to twist them a little. I was afraid to make a young stylization… Yes we’re not 16 anymore to wander around barefoot wearing liberty with flowers in the hair.

Alexandra is wearing Cacharel skirt and top, a Claudie Pierlot leather jacket and a pair of Converses. I’m wearing a Cacharel dress with an Undiz bustier, an Asos open shirt and Jeffrey Campbell boots. 

I hope you enjoy our own version of the Girls tribe. We wanted some affinity and freshness, I really like this girls tribe idea, I don’t think it has to be a matter of generation. I think that today more than ever I’m building my little crew of ultra creative girls all area included: graphic design, writing, production, translation, sewing and I’m sure I’m forgetting at lot. Damn, the time I was 16 is far gone but I think that life is getting better and better over time after all. 

Love you ! And don’t forget to publish your inspired pictures, have fun, put yourselves in situation with your tribe and publish your pics from the #SUNRISE them mentioning @anaisanaisofficial @makemylemondade with the #anaisanais and #girlstribu hashtags. We’ll talk about it on Wednesday with Charlotte’s making of, we’ll give you some presents as well…