Emily Cooper, the ultimate “American girl in Paris” may well have nearly lost her company’s most important client over her jaunty Eiffel Tower bag charm in Netflix hit Emily in Paris , but she always understood the importance of this particular accessory. In fact, she was ahead of the trend. In a subsequent speech to said client – the imperious designer Pierre Cadault, who had declared Cooper to be ringarde ( basic) – Cooper illustrated the importance of the bag charm in the fashion food chain.
“You’re right,” Cooper tells the designer. “I am a basic bitch with a bag charm. In fact, do you wanna know why I got that bag charm? Because my friends and I were obsessed with Gossip Girl .
We all wanted to be Serena van der Woodsen in her gorgeous, crazy-expensive couture. But the only thing we could afford from any of those designers was a clip-on charm from an outlet mall in Winnetka [in Illinois].” “So .
.. yeah,” Cooper says.
“I guess that made us pretty ringarde . You think ringardes don’t respect designers. We worship designers so much that we spend all we’ve saved on a dumb accessory just to feel like we’re somehow on your runway.
You may mock us but the truth is ...
you need us. Without basic bitches like me, you wouldn’t be fashionable,” Emily says. {"@context":"https://schema.
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