The Greta Constantine team shares their third dispatch from Paris, where they’re showing their fall/winter 2012 collection to editors, stylists and buyers. Last time we checked in, they were touring the City of Light with the Fashion Television
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ELLE Canada, You know that guilty feeling when you sleep in while on vacation in a beautiful, foreign place? If we weren’t so exhausted, we may just have felt that way today. After waking up at 10:30 a.m. to the aroma of
café allongé and
pain au chocolat (not to mention,
des baguettes), we began mapping our journey for yet another day of sightseeing. After sending off a few emails, we got dressed and headed for lunch. That was, of course, until we received a surprise telephone call from a retailer asking us to see the collection. Despite the rumbling of our stomachs, we obliged. In the world of showroom appointments, there’s no such thing as bad timing. Energized from a successful appointment, we jetted off to lunch and shortly afterwards, scurried to rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré  for a brief shopping trip. We got to the strip at 6:20 and it was a race against time as we bulleted between stores.  The primary goal? Visit Colette, Paris’s fashion mecca, and purchase a few items that had caught our eye the day before. This wasn’t nearly as easy as it sounds.
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