Leila George’s trip to Paris for fashion week was so brief that she avoided jet lag entirely. The 32-year-old traveled to attend the Courrèges show, and managed to fit a week’s worth of Parisian adventures in — despite the trip almost not happening, thanks to a six-hour delay spent on the JFK tarmac.
Upon landing, with some time to spare before her fitting, she headed straight to a café for a French onion soup.
“I think I had about four of them in 48 hours,” she said. “I’ve been craving them at the moment.”
From there she found her look for Courrèges, got a facial, had hair and makeup done and attended the show (with some sleep thrown in there).
“It was amazing. I mean, literally cool. Their clothes are totally my style, and I think the best way to describe them is cool,” she says of the brand. “There’s so much stuff in the collection that I would totally wear. I already have my stylist, Kate Young, pulling some stuff for me for things for the next week because it’s really great stuff.”
George is heading back into doing press for “Disclaimer,” the Alfonso Cuarón-created, Cate Blanchett-starring Apple TV series she’s in, which premiered at Venice and will launch on Apple in October.
“I have never really done anything to this extent before, and so I’m kind of learning as I go, but it is amazing,” she says.
For Courrèges, she wore an open-back top and trousers.
“It was one of those things where I walked into the fitting and they said, ‘OK, try this,’ and it was amazing, and then I walked out five minutes later,” she says. “I love anything backless, and then it was just really, really chic and classy at the same time as being sexy.”
In addition to the show, she managed to walk 17,000 steps, have a pistachio croissant, creme brulee and a crepe, go to Shakespeare and Co and stroll past the Louvre and Notre Dame.
“It felt like ‘Inception.’ We kept sitting down at a place and being like, are we still on the tarmac at JFK?’” she said.
