Naughty Paris

Madame Gentry Lane on the left, checking out the merchandise, and Heather in the background, trying to maintain eye contact!

We thought it apropo to begin our Naughty Paris blog with a bit of eye candy from last week’s Salon International de la Lingerie (it’s the lingerie “Prêt-à-Porter”, if you will). Carolyn and I were lucky enough to be able to spy on this industry-only event by posing as assistants/slaves for Gentry de Paris.

For four days we behaved ourselves as the trail of lingerie models – male and female – paraded by. But on the last day we decided to do a little research (for the book, of course) and ask one of the male specimens if he ever had any, er, “proposals” from the women at the show. Carolyn chased down this sexy cowboy (you can’t see it here, but he’s wearing boots) and was halfway through her very tactful question in French when, quelle surprise, it turns out he’s a compatriot from good ol’ Canada!

What we gathered from our research:

Jordan is 23, models exclusively for Ginch Gonch (who are, BTW, always looking for new male models…check out their site), and is the only straight guy I’ve ever met who makes the appropriate effort to remove excess body hair.

As for any indecent proposals at the show, according to Jordan: “Lots of women spoke to me, but I don’t understand French so I just smiled.”

(Don’t worry, ladies, we’ll send him a copy of Naughty Paris so he can learn some of the important French phrases from our “Sexy Vocabulary” chapter!)