Solli in Paris

Ladurée opening a boutique in Stockholm

Yes, it is true and now it’s official! Ladurée will open a boutique in Stockholm :-) If you can’t make it to Paris, then Paris comes to you…that goes for the people living in Stockholm that soon will be able to endulge themselves with the most delicious macarones in the whole world. I’m not saying that just because I’ve been working at Ladurée in Paris, but I have tasted macarones from different “brands”…and even in Sweden…they’re not even comparable to the ones that are served at Ladurée. So I’m truly happy that the Swedish people finally can buy delicious and heavenily tasty macarones at Ladurée in Stockholm very, very soon! To be continued……..

Bukit Timah nature reserve

Bukit Timah is a 163-hectare nature reserve and an Asean heritage park and it is one of the largest primary rainforest left in Singapore. In the nature reserve there are also steps leading to Singapore’s highest hill at 163.63 m. Me, my sister and dad went there in the morning one sunny day. On our walk we passed by very cute monkeys that were living there, they were playing with each other and jumping from one liana to another. It was fun to see :-) If I was living permanently in Singapore I would definately have been going to this nature reserve every week and walked to the top of the hill, best exercise ever and at the same time, fresh clean air and beautiful nature ;-)

Bukit Timah nature reserve

Bukit Timah nature reserve

Bukit Timah nature reserve

Zadig & Voltaire

A sneak peak on Zadig & Voltaire’s vitrina in Paris. My favourites are the boots to the left and the tops to the right (grey and nude).

Zadig & Voltaire

The wall with the marble and the console with the candles gives such a warm and magical feeling at the restaurant Schmuck. It’s nice to have dinner at Schmuck once in a while, it’s like stepping in to another world when the restaurant is decorated with things where almost half of it comes from flea markets.

When these photos were taken I had fried zucchini flowers as a starter and my friend had burrata, sundried tomatoes and black olive tapenade. As a maincourse I chose skate wing with grapefruit (my FAVOURITE) while my friend had a beef tartare with French fries and salad. I’ve always picked the same dessert ever since I started to have dinner at Schmuck and it has always been their delicious brioche façon pain perdu with caramel sauce and vanilla ice cream :-)

Schmuck – 1, rue de Condé, 75006 Paris

Closest metro: Odéon
Phone: +33 (0)1 43 54 18 21

Beignet de fleur de courgette//fried zucchini flowers

Burrata du Mercato, tomates séchées, tapenade d’olives noires//burrata, sundried tomatoes and black olive tapenadeAile de Raie au pamplemousse//skate wing (fish) with grapefruit

Tartare de boeuf, frites maison, salade//beef tartare, french fries and saladBrioche façon pain perdu caramel beurre salé, glace vanille//brioche with caramel sauce and vanilla ice cream

Mojitos

A second Schmuck  has opened up in St Germain in Paris (summer 2011) after a great success with the first one at 43 rue de Ponthieu (next to Champs-Elysée), on the other side of the river Seine.

When I first entered the restaurant I was amazed by the decoration made by Laura Gonzalez (who re-decorated Bus Palladium and the nightclub Le Régine). She is an interior designer, she manage her own architect company, Pravda Arkitect and at the age of 27 I must say her career is very impressing :-)

The walls in the restaurant are covered with different wallpapers, mirrors in different shapes and sizes are hanging on the walls next to old framed photos, antique chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, candles almost everywhere, baroque armchairs and my favourite part, the wall made by marble with a console covered with candles in different sizes. The decoration breathes very much Marie-Antoinette which is charming and puts spirit to the ambiance.

The mojito is a classic one in the bar and if you are lucky you might spot the hot actor Guillaume Canet at Schmuck or Gilles Lellouche who is one of the owners.

In my next blogpost I will introduce you to their food, stay tuned ;-)

Schmuck – 1, rue de Condé, 75006 Paris

Closest metro: Odéon
Phone: +33 (0)1 43 54 18 21

Dinner @ Mama Shelter

I often go to the hotel Mama Shelter here in Paris for dinner in their restaurant. Especially on Sunday’s it has become a habit. It’s often very packed and crowded so it’s always good to reserve a table earlier. For dinner I usually order the salmon with pickled radish as a starter. It’s simply outstanding! I love the combination of the smooth avacado with the marinated salmon :-) This time I also had salmon as a main course with potatoes and as dessert I had pineapple with caramel fudge sauce. The coctail I had before the dinner is called the Notorious B.I.G and contains green apple purée, freshly squeezed lemon, cane sugar, sparkling water, very fresh!

Mama Shelter, 109 Rue de Bagnolet  75020 Paris

Dinner @ Mama Shelter

Me and my Blackberry @ Mama Shelter

Dinner @ Mama Shelter

Dinner @ Mama Shelter

Paris the City of Lights, at Rue Paul Bert (photo: Solli Kanani, taken in January 2011)

Status: In Paris! Tomorrow’s first stop will be Dubai and then the final destination: Singapore :-)

Thierry Lasry, me and Ludovic Messager

Here are some photos from the photocall on the Thierry Lasry and Quintessence Playground party on October 4th at L’ARC:

Léonard Lasry & Thierry Lasry

Sofia and Johann

Ludovic Messager and me

Thierry Lasry & Quintessence Playground party at L'ARC

Thierry Lasry & Quintessence Playground party at L'ARC

Thierry Lasry & Quintessence Playground party at L'ARC

Photo credits:  Virgile Guinard, Paul Blind and Loic Novel.

Thierry Lasry & Quintessence Playground party @ L'ARC

On October 4th, my friend Thierry Lasry (sunglass designer) and Ludovic Messager (owner of Quintessence Playground) arranged a party during the fashion week in Paris at the nightclub L’ARC. Ludovic Messager decorated the nightclub for the party and it became a success. Here are some photos from the evening:

Me and my friends

Me and Vanessa

Me and my friend Harvey (one of the DJ's on the party)

Solli

the reflection of my high heels in the mirror @ L'Arc

My dinner at L’ARC in Paris resulted in a sugar coma…and I was not impressed by the food at all. The vegetables in the starter were not tasty…either they were over-boiled or came out straight from the jar? Ok, we can all have bad luck with the entry I thought for myself looking forward the maincourse… I recieved two fish fillets soaked in oil…the oil was literally dripping from them…thank God they were rescued by the four thick sliced zucchinis otherwise they would have been floating in the oil sea in the plate….what a catastrophe! As dessert we both ordered île flottante (floating island), it’s one of my favourite French desserts and it’s an island (whipped egg whites) floating in crème anglaise (vanilla sauce). First of all…too much sugar! And the vanilla sauce looked very artificial with it’s strange orange color? Did they perhaps accidently drop a jar of liquid food colors in it?

In short it was too bad the food didn’t appeal to me. The service was good and the restaurant (that also has a nightclub) is situated next to the L’Arc de Triomphe in Paris…with a amazing view.

L’ARC – 12 rue de Presbourg, 75016 Paris

Dinner @ L'Arc

Dinner @ L'Arc

Dinner @ L'Arc

Street style photos taken outside the LANVIN S/S 2012 fashionshow in Jardin des Tuileries

The line was long to the LANVIN S/S 2012 fashionshow and I wish that I one day will have an invitation too because I adore the creations of Alber Elbaz :-) Some of the people who went to the show were Emmanuelle Alt, Carine Roitfeld, Giovanna Battaglia, Susan Tabak, Rachel Zoe, Alexandra Golovanov, Franca Sozzani, Jade Jagger and Kappauf. See the photos I took on them and the street style photos I took outside the show:

Emmanuelle Alt on her way to the LANVIN S/S 2012 fashionshow in Jardin des Tuileries

Carine Roitfeld on her way to the LANVIN S/S 2012 fashionshow in Jardin des Tuileries

Giovanna Battaglia on her way to the LANVIN S/S 2012 fashionshow in Jardin des Tuileries

Susan Tabak on her way to the LANVIN S/S 2012 fashionshow in Jardin des Tuileries

Rachel Zoe on her way to the LANVIN S/S 2012 fashionshow in Jardin des Tuileries

Street style photos outside the LANVIN S/S 2012 fashionshow in Jardin des Tuileries

Street style photos outside the LANVIN S/S 2012 fashionshow in Jardin des Tuileries

Street style photos outside the LANVIN S/S 2012 fashionshow in Jardin des Tuileries

Street style photos outside the LANVIN S/S 2012 fashionshow in Jardin des Tuileries

My friend Vanessa outside the LANVIN S/S 2012 fashionshow in Jardin des Tuileries

Street style photos taken outside the LANVIN S/S 2012 fashionshow in Jardin des Tuileries

Alexandra Golovanov on her way to the LANVIN S/S 2012 fashionshow in Jardin des Tuileries

Franca Sozzani (VOGUE Italy Editor-In-Chief) on her way to the LANVIN S/S 2012 fashionshow in Jardin des Tuileries

Jade Jagger on her way to the LANVIN S/S 2012 fashionshow in Jardin des Tuileries

Street style photos taken outside the LANVIN S/S 2012 fashionshow in Jardin des Tuileries

DSQUARED store-opening cocktail

Me at the store-opening cocktail of DSQUARED in Paris…..wearing a metallic knitted shirt, shorts, sandals and tigerstripes on my feets made by my Tropeziennes…

DSQUARED store-opening cocktail

@ Carmen in Paris, photo taken by my friend Vanessa

The beautiful dark color that my hairdresser dyed my hair with 2 months ago is stucked as glue. I thought it would, like other haircolors, be a bit lightened by the sun and by time…but no, it’s still the same as for two months ago. Means it must have been a really good haircolor my hairdresser used ;-) Now I’m used to the color and I love it :-)

Water lily

Yesterday my friend Vanessa took me to a secret garden in Paris.  It was so beautiful! In the middle of the garden there was a big fountain and plenty of water-lilies :-) I know my mom would have loved to visit this garden, her favorite flower is water-lily and I took her to the garden of Monet last summer but it was crowded with tourists and there were not that peacefull environment we had been looking forward to feel. But as soon as I stepped into this secret garden I felt so calm and at peace…listening to the sound of water, seeing all the flowers in different colors and just for a moment feel that I was far away from Paris.

water lily

In the secret garden

Water lily

In the secret garden...