Caroline de Maigret is Paris fashion royalty; one of those otherworldly beauties who inspire Karl Lagerfeld and walk the Chanel catwalk; she’s friends with Isabel Marant and Anthony Vaccarello; been shot by Terry Richardson and Inez & Vinoodh and models for Vuitton, Balenciaga and Prada... But it’s her personal style, with its heady blend of elegance and attitude that has made her a goddess of the blogosphere.
Yet for all her A-list status, the 39 year-old model turned music producer is down-to-earth sweetness personified when she opens her door. This is even more surprising when you know she’s also a countess, that her grandfather was both prince and senior government minster and her mother an Olympic swimmer.
The other surprise is that we aren’t in 7th arrondissement grandeur but a former artist’s studio in Pigalle – a gritty neighbourhood of strip clubs, guitar shops and arriviste concept cafés – where she lives with her musician boyfriend, Yarol Poupaud, and their 7 year-old son Anton. Home is a temple to music; guitars and a piano line one wall, records another, while off the kitchen lies a music studio.
De Maigret embodies with perfect aplomb ‘le rock’n’roll attitude’ many Parisiennes aspire to. Her closet is a mix of high and low, encapsulated by two wardrobe essentials; her black Chanel jacket, “right away you are stylish,” and an authentic 70’s perfecto from Scott, discovered in a Berlin flea market.
There’s a practical side to her daily uniform: jeans, boots and sneakers, t-shirts, blouses and tailored jackets, which she claims is as much about being a mother as giving the finger to the Parisian preference for 24 hour heels. Stilettos do however come out at ni
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Caroline's striped Gucci handbag.
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Her essential black Chanel jacket
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One of her practical tailored jackets
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She owns 12 pairs of Adidas sneakers.
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Her Fendi heels, painted Converse by Margiela, Adidas High Tops.
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Caroline's home is a temple to music; guitars and a piano line one wall, records another, while off the kitchen lies a music studio.