The most typical and long-standing type of woman with style is Hafa.
Hafa is a fashionable coat for the middle class. Since the Middle Ages, people have been hafa. Among the upper classes of European countries, a young lady began to learn French at an early age and prided herself on being able to speak fluent French in social situations when she grew up. The French language seems to have become a sign of identity. This fashion later spread to the vast regions of Russia, and in some of your works by Lev Tolstoy, such as Anna Karenina, the dialogue of the lady of the noblewoman was often mixed with French. Later, Hafa swept the world.
To this day, when the taste, insight, and wealth of a woman living across the ocean rises to a certain height, her eyes may turn to Europe, and the specific location is France. A series of changes will occur in her body:
1. She began to enjoy drinking French red wine and watching French movies.
2. She was obsessed with Chanel's perfumes, Louis Vuitton's handbags, Kristen Dior's fashion.
3. She longs for the bells of Notre Dame cathedral, the sunshine of Fontainebleau, the lavender of Provence.
4. She longs to go to a café on the Left Bank for a cup of coffee, to buy a bottle of perfume on the Champs Elysées, to see the Mona Lisa smile at the Louvre...
Most of them prefer the French way of life, the art de vivre, interior decoration and even hairstyles. They even began to learn French, the language of fashion around the world – even cosmetics made in Japan, labels, brands in French.
In an interview, the former French foreign minister said without modesty: "Many countries used to like and still like France, like French heritage, French ideas and French culture." The New Yorker's Paris Newsletter column commented on the charm of Paris: "It has the most beautiful but ordinary civilization in the world - cafes, small restaurants, parks, lemons on trays, boulevards dotted with the shade of leaves..."
It can be seen that Hafa is universal and has the tendency to become more and more intense.
In Tokyo, there are the best professional French bookstores for the Hafa people to read original French books - Ouming Society and French Book Society. In other parts of the world, there is also a strong Left Bank complex: you can see Left Bank bars, Left Bank bookstores, Left Bank cafes, Left Bank Western restaurants in different cities... The smell of coffee on the left bank of the Seine is pervading every corner of the middle class.
The Hafa woman read Camus and Sartre. They smell the coffee of the Left Bank in Picasso's The Maiden of Avignon, in Matisse's Young Girl with Tulips, in Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, in James Joyce's Ulysses, in Sartre's Existence and Nothingness, and in Simon de Beauvoir's Second Sex. In their eyes, the level of French culture and American culture may be like Bordeaux red wine to Coca-Cola, fat foie gras to hamburgers, YSL evening dress to Levis jeans, Juliet Binoche to Jennifer Lopez effect...
But the most famous Hafa in the world is not a woman, but a man- peter Meier, an Englishman.
A few years ago, Peter Mayer, tired of the busyness and glitz of office life, came to a small town in the Provence Valley with his wife, bought an old house that had gone through two hundred years of vicissitudes, and began their mountain years.
In Peter Meier's pen, the place is "summer, leisurely hot and pleasant; Winter, slow cold and pleasant".
Peter Mayer took pleasure in taking care of his vineyards, making friends with truffle farmers, sharing the joy of winemaking with winegrowers, and writing "Mountain Dwelling Years - A Year in Provence", "Love in the Mountain Town - Eternal Provence", "Opinions on the Life of a Dog", "About Taste", "Tracking Cézanne", "Eating Through France" and other works, relishing french truffles, cheese, fatty foie gras, caviar, olive oil, champagne...
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