Patricia's Wardrobe:
- The New York Herald Tribune shirt – I purchased mine from Neighborhoodies. I suggest the Girls Communitee style in white (natch…), as it is closest to the type that Jean wore
- Black Capri pants
- A striped circle dress with a rounded collar, big buttons, and matching belt at the waist
- White cashmere cardigan
- Wool pencil dress, nipped at the waist, button down front and two large pockets on the chest
- Your man’s large button down shirt
- Black and white (horizontal) striped boatneck sweater
- Black and grey (vertical) striped shirt with no sleeves
- White twill shorts
- Black pleated skirt (ending at your knees)
Patricia: What is your greatest ambition in life?
Parvulesco: To become immortal…and then die.
Patricia's Accessories:
- Black oblong retro sunglasses
- Small white purse
- Flat black loafers
- Black ballet slippers
- A small silver watch (worn on the left wrist)
- Fedora (borrowed from your man)
- Copies of the New York Herald Tribune
- White high heels
- A teddy bear with a white bow
- Prints from Renior, Picasso, and Paul Klee
Patricia: Why do you want to make love to me?
Michel: Because you’re beautiful.
Patricia: But I’m not beautiful.
Michel: Okay, then because you’re ugly.
Her Pastimes:
- Aspiring to be a journalist
- Selling the “New York Herald Tribune” on the Champs-Elysées
- Harboring fugitives
- Quoting Faulkner, Thomas, and Rilke
Patricia: Do you know William Faulkner?
Michel: No. Who’s he? Have you slept with him?
Acquaintances:
- handsome young French thugs who think they're Humphrey Bogart
- police men
Hangouts:
- sidewalk cafés
- her apartment
- the cinema (where she sneaks into the screening of Whirpool)
- the Champs-Elysées
- It’s sad to fall asleep. It separates people. Even when you’re sleeping together, you’re all alone.
- I don’t know if I’m unhappy because I’m not free, or if I’m not free because I’m unhappy.
- Are you afraid of getting old? I am.
- Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.
- We look at each other in the eye, and it’s no use.
- I’d like to think about something, and I can’t.
Check out Vogue’s old editorial featuring Christy Turlington as Patricia, and look at Mia Kirshner’s reimagining of Patricia on “The L Word” for some modern-day inspirations of Patricia
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