Vogue Vacations: 5 Days in Paris With Elly Leavitt
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The list of foreigners infatuated with Paris is a long one: Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, Julia Child, Emily. I here include myself—I use every birthday, extended layover, and long weekend as an excuse to visit, and have on several occasions been known to threaten permanent decampment to the French capital. Sometime in mid-October, still feeling the comedown from summer travel and looking to trade the fast pace of Manhattan for the fast pace of… a different city (we’re New Yorkers, after all) a friend and I cordoned off a long weekend for a change of scenery. And Paris in the fall? Famously, a delight. Off we went in pursuit of better architecture and unpasteurized cheese.
This particular trip to Paris had the exciting fortune (and, noting for legal purposes, pure coincidence) of concurring with a heist at the Louvre—who says the city never changes? Grand larceny notwithstanding, our five days in the city were otherwise uneventful, which is to say, completely blissful. Days spent perusing brocantes and bakeries turned into long dinners involving a hundred variations on the potato and late-night glasses of wine on the sidewalks of Pigalle. The highlights of our itinerary are chronicled below: Here is everything I wore, ate, and shopped on a long weekend in the City of Light.
The Destination: Paris
The Travel Outfit: Not typically one to travel with the luggage space to humor single-wear items, I always end up wearing jeans on the plane. Comfortable sneakers I can wear on the flight and then to meander around the city are a must, as is some form of oversized knit, as I suspect whoever is in charge of cabin temperatures to be in cahoots with whoever is in charge of American supermarket dairy aisles, and it’s always freezing in there.