A post shared by Jeanne Damas (@jeannedamas) “I live here, that’s all,” she says. “Of course I find the ‘perfect French girl’ thing irritating.
It was never my choice. It feels like something that was foisted upon me by the media, rather than anything rooted in the truth.
What does it mean anyway?”It’s a good question. As we all know, Parisian women are fêted the world over for having an immaculate sense of style, an extraordinary ability to tie a scarf and an innate understanding of navy blue.
Of course, like all stereotypes, that doesn't necessarily chime with the reality of what women in the French capital wear in 2021, but playing on the cliche has made a lot of people very successful – Damas being one of them.
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