Pardon My French With Garance Doré

This month on our site we’re talking about growing up. What does growing up even mean? Do we ever really grow up? These are things we’re exploring in our last podcast episode of the season, and we thought it would be fun to talk to some of the most honest people out there – kids! [...]

Garance was so honored when her friend Stephanie Danan asked her to participate in the Pre-Fall campaign for Co, the brand she co-created with her partner, Justin Kern. Not only because she deeply respects Stephanie and everything she does, but because she knows how important it is for Stephanie to collaborate with people she truly [...]

In our last pocket episode of the season, Christina, Linne, Veronica and Carie are talking about what we thought our adult lives would look like when we were youngsters. From the influence of media shaping the lives we wanted to lead and crafting our lives around those ideals, to the reality of paying NYC rent [...]

This month on the site we’re covering the idea of growing up and getting older. Adulting, if you will. Today Veronica’s in NYC with Linne and Christina and Carie’s calling in from LA and the four of them are talking about the realness of burnout (it’s officially a medical diagnosis), the stresses and the freedoms [...]

It’s possible you don’t know the name Ian Schrager, but you definitely know some of the projects he’s created. You know — the incredibly iconic nightclub, Studio 54, that he co-founded in the late 1970s, or one of the numerous hotels he has around the world with EDITION Hotels that he created in partnership with [...]

Sometimes in life, renewal comes after of one of those « aha » moments and sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes it comes after an accumulation of a few, or many little things that bring you to a place where you’re finally ready to dig deep and make some changes, on your own terms. Even if it means having [...]

Spirituality is a big topic to try and tackle in a pocket episode, but Emily, Veronica, Linne and Nathan make a serious effort this week. While they cover the heavier topics like the connectedness of spirituality and religion, the unexpected and moving moments when you feel most spiritual, fear of death and annoyance at how [...]

This week we’re breaking down what it means to renew a relationship. It can be a relationship with a friend, a partner or even a parent. Emily, Caitlin, Linne and our newest team member, Nathan, talk about the importance of letting a relationship evolve to become something different than when it started, the moment your [...]

This week Garance is at home chatting with three very creative women, who also happen to be dear friends of hers who she greatly respects and admires. Clare Vivier, Tina Frey and Ellen Marie Bennett have built their respective creative businesses by seizing an opportunity and following a creative passion. The four women discuss the [...]

Creativity comes in all shapes and sizes and can easily go unnoticed as it can exist in the simplest forms. You can express it in your day to day life by the way you arrange flowers at home, a present you give, how you craft an email or through a meal you make for loved [...]

This week the editorial team at Atelier Doré is a couple glasses of wine in and continuing their dialogue on creativity. They debate whether or not sports are creative endeavors, discuss creative dreams and the difference between jobs and careers, and are forced to name the most creative people they know. You won’t want to [...]

This week Garance sits down with legendary chef, Eric Ripert, at his three-Michelin-starred restaurant, Le Bernardin, in NYC, to discuss his path to success and the very intentional route he took to get where he is today. They talk about his early love of food and his transition from a self-described « monster in the kitchen » [...]

We can’t deny that some of the greatest artists were fueled and inspired while under the influence (Hemingway, Bukowski, Picasso – you get the drill), so to kick off our month on creativity, our edit team sat down to safely imbibe in some lovely rosé from Lorenza Wine Company to talk about what gets their [...]

This week we bring you a very special story for our Carte Blanche episode on the idea of « escape. » We all know escape can be interpreted in many ways, and sometimes it can mean taking a terrifying risk to leave behind everything you know and your preset path, in order to find your true path. [...]

Today Christina, Vanessa and Veronica sit down to talk escaping via dream vacations, which quickly detours into the cost of said dream vacations, the dream of taking a year off, travel trends and how popularity of certain destinations can ultimately kill the vibe. Pardon My French is released on iTunes every Monday.

This week Garance chats with dating expert and coach, Hayley Quinn, after discovering Hayley through her Ted Talk, « Searching for Love to Escape Ourselves. » Based in the UK, Hayley’s approach to dating is informed by her own romantic experiences and what she learned as a ghost writer in the not to appealing, underground community of [...]

In kicking off our month of « escape, » we decided to invite our good friend, Megababe founder, creator of the blog, 12ishstyle, and mother of dogs, Katie Sturino, who happens to be a little bit anti-escapism to our need for escape. She chats with Veronica and Christina about how you can’t escape yourself, coloring as an [...]

Most of us have them but it can be hard to talk about them, let alone act them out. That’s right, today we’re talking about sexual fantasies! Garance, Emily and Veronica talk celeb crushes, having and acting on fantasies, sexual freedom and really just wanting to be seen. You won’t want to miss it! Pardon [...]

It’s sex month at The Atelier, which has raised a lot of questions about…. well.. sex! In this Carte Blanche episode, we decided to try and answer some of those questions like, what is it really like to go to a sex party? How do tell your partner what you want or don’t want? We [...]

Today we’re bringing you a sexy bonus episode of Pocket PMF for Valentine’s Day! We definitely couldn’t do a month of sex content without chatting up some experts, so Carie sat down with one such expert, Myisha Battle. Based in the Bay Area (though serving clients the world over), Myisha is a certified sex and [...]