V A is a long standing and recognised digital creative; her voice resonates with many. In the last ten years, the site has developed into an online destination for fashion, beauty and lifestyle advice. Her sense of style, editorial flair and practical counsel offers an inspired and graceful approach to living.

V A is a long standing and recognised digital creative; her voice resonates with many. In the last ten years, the site has developed into an online destination for fashion, beauty and lifestyle advice. Her sense of style, editorial flair and practical counsel offers an inspired and graceful approach to living.

Edit by: Vicki
Aug 01, 2012

Saint Tropez… Tuesday Morning Market

Tuesday and Saturday mornings in Saint Tropez are crazy in the summer season… The Place des Lices, shady and quiet… normally a destination for the older generation of males to toss a boule or two… becomes an outdoor market. We arrived at 8:30 am and by then it was already crowded… it is a large market and not laid out in any particular order. I am sure for the vendors there is a good side and a bad side, a best aisle and a better aisle… but for the observer it all looks much the same. I always attack it in the same way… from left to right… and visit the stalls that I know and love… just in case after an hour or so I loose enthusiasm and puff.

This year there were sarongs, in many fabrics and colours, fluttering from the stands. I don’t remember them being as popular last year. Every year I find there is something new and a la mode in the Saint Tropez market… last year it was the sequin covered French baskets (they were my faves)… This year the baskets were decorated with silk flowers… Generally I am not one for artificial flowers but these I loved and one will definitely have to come home with me…  You are thinking, ‘too many baskets’… There can never be too many baskets… (See how to make your own at the bottom of this post…)

I bought the soft coloured sarongs above… I am going to use them on my tables at the farm… I thought they will look extremely pretty with my new ‘meadow sweet’plates from Anthropologie… Sarongs as table cloths work a treat and are often an inexpensive and creative way of perking up the table.

Up at the back of the market is the brocante section… expensive bric-a-brac with questionable provenance… Yesterday the LV and Goyard were on show… How fab is the yellow one? It was a case of admire from a distance… the prices were very Saint Tropez-ish… but the visuals were wonderful.

There must be a demand for vintage Hermes, Goyard and LV at the moment… There wasn’t a CC in sight… ‘Kelly’ bags in great condition, again with non-maket prices… but beautiful to see and looking just as chic under the plane trees as they do on the arms of the world’s most glamorous.

The burgundy was pretty and I made a note to myself to drop the black this winter and accessorise up with some of this deep, rich red colour.

And the specs… a deal at 10 euros… my friends loved them and stocked up… They were great quality and looked incredibly smart … every colour and style imaginable in the vintage way we love.

How does it compare to the markets near me?… It is different… there are less home wares, more fashion items… so many clothes… linen shirts, bikinis, cover ups, embroidered caftans… and the sarongs and baskets that I mentioned… Truthfully, it’s all great fun.

Create A Little Saint Tropez In Your Life

The basket… here… and here

the rose here… or the carnation here… ( two pinned together… the orange and the white… they would be my choice.. )

To create the Saint Tropez basket… cut the stem off the silk flowers close to the head of the bloom and pin between the handles just underneath the basket edging… and voila… a touch of the Cote d’Azur chez vous

Sarongs you might like… here, here and here

Have a wonderful day… speak soon… xv

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