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“I don't really get what conceptual art is and I don't really get what you do and what is all this art, fart, shmart? Well anyway I don't really care because I'm in love with everything you do.”*
*Nobody actually said that, even though we think they should have. Read below for what they've really been saying.
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The Pop Manifesto
2 October 2012
New Paris House and Bags
"Always appreciative of wit in product design, New Zealand artist Sharon Paris is a woman who lives just for this task. Her brand, Paris House, is an adorable company making unconventional leather goods embossed with tongue-in-cheek sayings."
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Wee Birdy
5 September 2012
New Zealand Finds: Paris House
"This is a long overdue post about some excellent and rather unconventional leather wallets and bags – the kind of bags you stroke longingly because the leather is so soft and the colours are so pretty, all the while chuckling because the gold-embossed bunny is saying ‘Bite Me‘.... The bags themselves are beautifully crafted, with sumptuous printed fabric lining, double-stitched leather and metal zips, and the leather colourways offer a delicious spectrum of macaron-inspired hues."
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Domestic Sluttery
29 August 2012
Shop in the Spotlight: Paris House
"One day, you’re just idly reading all of the internet in your lunch hour, then BAM – up pops something so brilliant, you let out a desk-whoop, and Colin from Accounts secretly hopes it’s because he’s just stumbled into your peripheral vision..."
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Lucky Magazine
1 August 2012
Bags We Wished We'd Invented
"Artist Sharon Paris has taken an elegant collection of bags in sumptuous leather and done to them exactly what your mother told you not to do with your sneakers: doodled on them. Armed with a gold brush and a witty assortment of pop music lyrics and Jenny Holzer-esque one-liners, Paris has given this 78 year old New Zealand brand the brashness of a teenager and the wit of Wilde."
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Bus Stop
19 July 2012
Straight Outta New Zealand
"Paris House makes little wallets and purses in bright neons and girly pastels perfect for summer nights when you want to go sans handbag and tuck your essentials in your back pocket."
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Style Caster
30 March 2012
Get the Message: Accessories Line Tells it Like it is
"Paris House has become known for their sharp small leather goods that feature witty expressions and images that are sure to leave a smirk on your face.
A great gift for anyone you know that has an especially snarky, witty or even sassy attitude, these pieces are sure to create less awkward and more LOL-worthy moments between you and your friends on their birthdays (or any other festive day to treat your friend to a fun surprise!)."
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Mademoiselle Robot
24 January 2012
WHO'S NEXT PARIS - DAY 4 #WSN12
Paris House is the brainchild of Sharon Paris, a conceptual artist from New Zealand. If like me you spend most of your life browsing the aisles of Liberty while waiting for meetings, you will have no doubt come across those super cute accessories emblazoned with funny phrases and drawings. When walking past the Paris House stand, I almost laughed out loud when reading "I love you like a fat boy likes cake" on a bag. To sum this up and to quote my 4 year old daughter "I love Paris House as much as ten kittens with poos on their heads" (apparently that means a lot).
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Style Incorporated
15 October 2011
Things I'm Loving This Week:
"While browsing through the purse and handbag section at my favorite online store ASOS I came across the quirky brand Paris House. They sell a variety of merchandise including bill folds, card holders and weekend bags. If you need a laugh and like fun fashion then this is your brand."
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Viva
13 September 2011
Face It
"For those who like their accessories to have a bit of personality..."
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Bag Bunch
15 July 2011
New Zealand Slogan Accessories Make Global Splash
"Kiwi designer Sharon Paris is creating accessories that are quite literally statement pieces for her fashion brand...I'm sure a creative star like Katy Perry or Pink could pull off the crystal encrusted purses on a red carpet. Have the Paris House accessories stolen your heart?"
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Best Fan
14 July 2011
Ladies and Gentlemen Please Welcome Sharon Paris
"We try and do stuff that makes people smile, and we try and keep it a little bit intelligent.” Sharon Paris is a designer from New Zealand, based in Miami is surely making many smile."
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Fashion For Lunch
13 July 2011
Paris House Accessories Have Something to Say
"Harvey Nichols, Urban Outfitters and Liberty are some of the high-fashion retailers housing quirky handbags and wallets by Miami-based designer Sharon Paris. They are statement pieces literally, embellished with gold-lettered witty phrases like ‘I like to push your buttons’, ‘Shut up and get on with it’ and ‘Fishing for Compliments’. Things we’d all do well to blurt out now and then, I’m sure, but cannot."
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What are we Wearing
13 July 2011
Paris House Accessories Have Something to Say
"They are statement pieces literally, embellished with gold-lettered witty phrases like ‘Shut up and get on with it’ and ‘Fishing for Compliments’. Things we’d all do well to blurt out now and then, I’m sure, but cannot. So, although it’s sure to make for a lesser impact, we can say it with a handbag."
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I Look Good but not without my Handbag
13 July 2011
Growning up Paris House
"Sharon Paris has been designing quirky but quality handbags, wallets and assorted accessories for years now and her freestyle way of designing is on a steady move to popularity. With most of the leather goods coming under 200 and each piece being a fun small piece of individual style, Paris House will be sure to make you smile. In fact that is a part of her inspiration!"
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Miami City Social
12 July 2011
Paris House's Accessories Make Statements Fashion
"Ms Paris began selling the leather accessories about five years ago and they can now be picked up in high-fashion and upmarket department stores around the world, including Harvey Nichols in Hong Kong, Liberty and Urban Outfitters in London, and Colette in Paris."
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The Dominion Post
11 July 2011
Paris House's Accessories Make Statements Fashion
"Sharon Paris designs and makes high-end fashion accessories that make a statement- literally... they can now be picked up in high-fashion and upmarket department stores around the world, including Harvey Nichols in Hong Kong, Liberty and Urban Outfitters in London and Colette in Paris."
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Black Magazine
14 February 2011
Valentine's Day, direct from The Bay
"Love them all but particularly fond of Paris House's 'I Love You More Than A Fat Boy Loves Cake'."
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Guardian.co.uk
20 December 2010
The edit: Wallets and purses
Looking for a last minute stocking filler? Try a stylish wallet or purse: guaranteed to please and to keep that Christmas money toasty.
(Paris House is listed along with Comme des Garcon, Prada and Anya Hindmarch)
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OUT WITH THE OLD
2 November 2010
Bags of Paris House
"Paris House, an iconic kiwi design brand has something EXCITING to share..."
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Best Foot forward
2 October 2010
Best Foot Forward
"Wellington accessory designer Sharon Paris, of Paris House, has collaborated with shoe brand Chocolate Shoebar / (images) to create a capsule range featuring her trademark slogans."
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Wrapped
1 September 2010
Bags of Paris House
"Paris House has been with us for a while now, Sharon Paris is one very talented lady. I love that Paris House began with her grandfather in 1934, a jewelry business, continued on by her father and now beautifully remembered by Sharon."
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Fashion Quarterly
1 August 2009
The House of Paris
"Statement accessories are big news these days. Generally that means oversized or embellished necklaces and earrings that say something about the wearer. Sometimes like 'Look at me', 'Bling is my thing' and, occasionally 'I have more money than sense'. But the soft leather wallets and bags from Wellington label Paris House have something far more intriguing to say..."
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This Next
1 April 2009
Jenny wants a birthday gift for a guy under $200
"When everything you own is an extension of yourself and your self, it's sometimes hard to find the perfect thing to keep your filthy lucre in. Here's a good option. Made in New Zealand, and shipped with a pot of New Zealand bee's wax to keep the leather in good shape for many years to come. The messages change every season, so buy it now if you're in love with it like I am."
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Koko
1 March 2009
Spotted
"Witty and amusing are not usually the first words that spring to mind when describing purses, but with the Paris House range, you would be hard pushed not to speak on such lighthearted terms about them... Shopping in style and good humor has never been easier."
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Babyccino
1 February 2009
Paris House Travel Wallets
"They are great. They don't take themselves too seriously and they have the perfect amount of pockets in the perfect sizes for the modern day traveler. Card slots, pen holders, ticket compartments, slot for a SIM card, compartments for different currencies... everything you ever need to have access to whilst in transit."
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B-Guided
1 December 2008
To Paris with Love
"Q. Your products have recently hit the shelves at the tres tres cool Paris design store, Colette. How does it feel to be so unimaginably cool?" "A. Ah the illusion of cool, I suppose if I were quite as tres tres cool as the achievement would suggest I would claim it just happened and I was moderately pleased by it."
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Idealog
1 November 2008
Ideal Gear
"It's the place you go to for hair hats, Levi's Red Tab mobile phones and King Kong sized velour pandas. And now Parisian design emporium Colette is also the place you go to buy a bit of Paris House... Leverage is always good but you have to wonder if in this case they really needed it."
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Inside Retailing
1 September 2008
Kiwi Style Upstart Recognised in Paris
"Iconic Parisian style store Colette has chosen the Paris House range of wallets to sit among the world's hippest designs on their style stocked shelves: a major vote of confidence for the quirky, iconoclastic brand created by New Zealand conceptual artist Sharon Paris."
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Cloziz
1 September 2008
The Look
"Superbe portefeuille d'une marque neo zelande que je ne connaissais pas.. Trouve chez Colette" (We think this is complementary but if it's not they're not talking about us.
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Omami
1 June 2008
Trend Minder
"There are precisely eight wallets in the world in which it is fun to keep your money. And there are two reasons why it really ought to be fun; firstly, it doesn't hurt to be reminded each day that money shouldn't be taken too seriously and secondly, if you suddenly find there is nothing left to keep in your wallet, on account of having paid a little to much attention to the first point, well then that's just the way things worked out, you won't be worried about it... Of the text-based variety, Paris House is the bomb."
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Josh Spear
1 April 2008
Paris House
"She said, 'we create products that makes people smile' then we thought. 'we're consumers, and we like to smile' also we were in the market for a new wallet, which is exactly what Paris' works of art are."
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Refinery 29
1 April 2008
Wonder Bread
"It's been said that money can't buy happiness but with the right wallet, we're willing to bet it can. Unlike that flimsy fold hidden in your back pocket (or that icky no-name leather variety), this new crop of cheerful bill collectors could almost make you forget your money woes. Artful vibrant, and a little psychedelic, we think any of these wallets have the power to kick-start prosperity."
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Eco Chic
1 February 2008
Give the gift of Laughter
"Maybe it's the cynic in me that finds these wallets hilariously funny. I think they'd be a great lighthearted gift.. certainly there's someone in your life who would appreciate the ironic humor of Paris House."
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Elle Magazine (France)
1 December 2007
Vceux Bleus
I dunno exactly what it said, we can only assume it was complimentary
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IDN
1 November 2007
A Healing Sense of Humor
"Medicine is something we'd live without but New Zealand design crew Paris House bring fun to medicine by using it as a theme for its new collection"
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Idealog Weekly
1 August 2007
Today Person: telling us where to go
"Our very first emerging talent, Sharon Paris, has well and truly emerged, having just released her forth range of wallets called Johnny Rotten. Emblazoned with likes like The Born Rocker, each wallet comes with a promise to enable you to be someone, somewhere or someplace else."
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Two Thousand
1 August 2007
Good
"For an accessories label Paris House has one hellava mission statement; The truth isn't the truth until people believe in you, and they can't believe in you if they don't know what you're saying, and they can't know what you're saying if they don't listen to you, and they won't listen to you if you're not interesting. Geeze Accessorize can't even spell."
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Luxury Home Design
1 December 2006
Made in New Zealand
"Conceptual Artist Sharon Paris continues the legacy of her grandfather's Paris House business with a range of 'conversation starters' leather wallets and purses in customised presentation boxes."
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Pulp Magazine
1 December 2006
Fashion Medicine
"The newest Collection from NZ design company Paris House is based around themes of medicine and art... with each new collection, Paris House donated 10% of their profits to a worthy cause, this time Wellington's Malaghan Institute, which focuses on finding cures for cancer, arthritis, asthma and MS."
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Frankie Magazine
1 October 2006
Paris House
"Sharon Paris- a conceptual artist who has quite a following because of her sharp ability to create wallets with personalities. The wallets in the I'm OK range have individual persona reflected by the embossed exterior and the screen-printed interior message..."
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Ed Reiley
1 September 2006
Things I wish I could call my own
"What do Paris House wallets, Neolog watches, and Moleskine's City Notebooks have in common? I don't know, they they are three cool products I can't wait to call my own."
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The Dominion Post
10 August 2006
Witty Wallets
"Wellington accessory design Sharon Paris of Paris House is donating 10% of the profits from the sales of her new 'I'm OK' range of wallets to the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand. The unique wallets, each titled, signed, numbered and dated by Paris, feature witty slogans..."
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Viva
26 July 2006
Wacky Wallets
"If you need your accessories to make a statement, Wellington design company Paris House makes wallets with inscriptions such as 'I'm Stuck with Me'. 10% of the profits go to the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand..."
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Runway Reporter
1 July 2006
Mental Notes
"Forget having Louis Vuitton monogramed on your wallet- these days the chic status symbol to have on display is your state of mind. Wellington designer Sharon Paris' new accessories collection, entitled 'I'm OK' is an ironic nod to the state of our mental health.
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Not Cot
1 July 2006
Paris House
"Some people inherit money, others inherit a company name to carry on with- the unique part here is that the as the company changed hands, the business did as well. What began with her grandfather as a jewelry store has grown and evolved through the years. I love companies where the philosophies are well grounded in the passions of the owners/workers. And Paris House seems to have understood and embodied this notion wholeheartedly from day one..."
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Thread
1 July 2006
I'm OK, You're OK with witty wallets for Mental Health
"One can't say one's 'mad about fashion' and mean it quite so much as with the new witty wallets from Paris House that are designed with slogans to benefit the Mental Health Foundation."
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Metro
1 May 2006
City Beat/ What's Hot
"Paris House leather coin purses silk-lined, good colours."
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Russh
1 March 2006
More for Your Money
"New Zealand label Paris House is shaking up the refined world of leather good... reflecting the art/fashion hybrid. Art is everything and everything else is everything else."
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Idealog
1 February 2006
Show me the Money
"Art is everything and everything else is everything else, says Sharon Paris. If success is turning some of that everything into something that pays, Paris is on her way... These wallets have enough beauty and attitude to belong to a movie star..."
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Tearaway
5 October 2005
Wit and Business
"Next time you whip out your wallet, will you be smiling? Sharon Paris of Wellington has created a new way for us to interact with our money- with wit and beauty..."
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Lucire
1 August 2005
Mad Cows
"Keep your eyes out for these cows as they make their rounds at Paris House's retailers. While not promoting the company's wallets per se, they are designed to make retail more fun and artistic- and we're all for that."
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Instyle Magazine
1 July 2005
Money Bags
"The brainchild of New Zealand artist/designer Sharon Paris, Paris House wallets are a quirky blend of function and art. Each design is embossed with witty messages that are counter pointed with another on the inside... could this be the investment piece for your winter wardrobe?"
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Marie Claire Magazine (Hong Kong)
1 July 2005
Paris House
"For those of us who live a standard boring life, a funny sentence will be very refreshing. A New Zealand designer, Sharon Paris, used this idea and created a collection of pretty and practical wallets, which can also bring excitement to the human brain..."
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Lucire
1 July 2005
The Scoop/Sharon Paris
"Q. How did you get into this role? A. 50% talent, 35% hardwork, 12% charm & 3% fluke..."
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The Dominion Post
1 July 2005
Cashing in on the Paris House Name
"You have your Jimmy Choo shoes and a Lulu Guinness handbag, but where do you stash that pesky small change or stow your credit cards? Wellington's Sharon Paris had just the same question and came up with her own solution in a range of pop-art wallets and purses under her Paris House brand..."
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Lucire
5 June 2005
Paris, je t'aime
"Sharon Paris' Paris House Wallets are worth it for their cheekiness alone. Before you even get to the wallet, the packaging is classic. Insides are screen-printed gems of advice in a strictly limited edition."
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The Dominion Post
5 May 2005
Pocket Money
"Paris House's stunning leather purses. Wellington designer has called her first range Every Bit as Certain as Death & Taxes, and all four styles depict clever saying inside and out..."
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The Sydney Morning Herald
5 May 2005
From Paris with Laughs
"You've got to love a brand with a bit of history and a sense of humor. Kiwi accessory start up Paris House has both. It's the brainchild of Sharon Paris, whose grandfather opened a pawn shop in Wellington in 1936 and whose father later transformed it into watch repair/jewellery shop..."
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Jet Magazine
1 May 2005
Show me the Money
"Sharon Paris' wallets are like the little art works. She even signs them and includes the print number. Every wallet us numbered so you know which one you own and each comes with its own pot of bees wax for polishing."
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Staple
1 April 2005
Every Bit as Certain as Death and Taxes
"Wellington based design label Paris House has launched a limited edition range of funky wallets that promise to look oh-so-fabulous and serve a practical purpose. Created with both form and function in mind."
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The Dominion Post
1 March 2005
In the Money
"Paris' debut collection of witty wallets made in New Zealand under the brand name Paris House will not only hit stores in Wellington, Auckland and New Plymouth later this month, but also Sydney retailers Orson & Blake, Bristol & Brooks and the Museum of Contemporary Art."
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The dominion post
In The Money
“Paris’ debut collection of witty wallets- made in New Zealand under the brand name Paris House- will not only hit stores in Wellington, Auckland and New Plymouth later this month, but also Sydney retailers Orson & Blake, Bristol & Brooks and the Museum of Contemporary Art….”
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