As a 40-year-old mother of two, it’s rare to get time away on my own – but while in Paris, I found I was spectacular company.
Strangely enough, I didn’t eat particularly well in Paris, but I didn’t mind. It wasn’t the food that fuelled me. It was the city itself. Strolling into a pop-up shop on Rue Volta, I met Tania Tuka, a Ukrainian designer and journalist who showed me that the space was filled with Ukrainian brands. We talked about our work, and her family, and how fashion had sustained her as Ukraine was invaded and terrorised.
That night, my new editor and publicist friends rallied for a post-dinner jaunt out – at midnight – to Lapérouse, a historic, romantic restaurant-cum-lounge filled with nooks and crannies of gilt rooms, the ghosts of Victor Hugo and Gustave Flaubert and a DJ spinning downstairs.
The next day, I was alone again. In the 17 years I lived in New York, I almost never felt alone, because of the thrum, the energy, the people – so many of us alone together. I felt the same in Paris. Meandering more, I bumped intostar Kate Walsh – also alone at an Agua Bendita showroom – and almost asked her to hang out.
I believe that parents-only trips, and family trips, are special and essential bonding moments. In Paris, I learned that so, too, is travelling by myself. I think back now to a variation of my mom’s question. Who did I go to Paris with? Myself. And I was spectacular company.
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