Le syndrome de la page blanche.

In French, that’s what we call the inability to produce new work. Yep, I have writer’s block. After starting this blog 6 months ago, I feel like I have nothing more to say. Can you picture it? A teacher who feels like she has nothing more to say. At the very beginning of the school year. How ironic. Maybe it’s the fact that I’ve been off work for so long or the fact that I spent the summer wearing every color there is except for black… I don’t have a clear reason, but what I do know for sure is that I’m going through a bit of slump. I thought that writing a blog would be easy: I mean how difficult can talking about my love of the color black, my obsession with shoes and my taste for champagne really be? And all that in a language that’s not mine? Really, how difficult can it be?

Very, that’s how difficult it is. Sometimes inspiration doesn’t come. Sometimes it does, but in so few words that they are not worth holding on to… Sometimes a picture suffice so why bother trying to explain anything… I found myself writing less and less. A post every 2 weeks. Then every 3 weeks. At that point,  I started to panic: surely I couldn’t have said all I had to say on the matter. 40 posts? That’s it? That’s all I have to contribute to the blogosphere?

Maybe. Or maybe it’s just had nothing to say for the past couple weeks.

Anyhow, going through this slump, along with seeing pictures of the different Spring/Summer 2016 collections, made me think of the real creative minds of the world, the ones whose livelihood actually depends on whether or not they are able to transform their artistry into something tangible and it made me all the more in awe of their capacity to constantly reinvent themselves and ultimately, the world.

On the bright side, I’ve started to wear black again.

Jacket – Zara
Sweater – Club Monaco
Pants – Banana Republic
Espadrilles – Stuart Weitzman

Headband – American Apparel
Coat – Zara
Sweater – Club Monaco
Jeans – J.Crew
Sandals – Birkenstock

And COS will shortly open its Montreal location. So inspiration, here I come.