![]() ![]() She makes or has someone make the things that she sells, which are often images of herself (bedhead, floral dress, block-heel sandal) and her apartment (sunlight, Gallimard paperbacks, rattan). ![]() She is often pregnant, but perennially kidless. The French girl lives on the Right Bank and is marginally more bohemian than her predecessor. Some time not long ago, the French woman ditched the scarf, unsmoked a thousand cigarettes, got an Instagram account, and became the French girl. Guiliano, a former executive at the parent company of Veuve Clicquot champagne, offered up chicken braised in champagne as the perfect dish to make “on a workday when pressed for time.” In a series of style guides, the model Inès de la Fressange counselled readers to save up for investment pieces, while getting hers free from Chanel. She was closely aligned with fashion, which is to say the luxury business. ![]() The self-improvement industry’s all-purpose foil, she represented a rigorous alternative to whatever her scuzzy American sisters were feeling bad about: their weight, their clothes, their sex lives, their parenting. The French woman, for all her confidence, was a codependent. In “ French Women Don’t Get Fat” (2004), Mireille Guiliano recounted with disconcerting precision her gain of thirty pounds more than forty years earlier, and divulged the “old French tricks”-namely, the recipe for a soup of leeks and water-that helped her to stay thin forever while never having to admit that she was trying to. A certain notion of French femininity took hold in the early two-thousands. ![]()
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