banana, it's a bit wishy washy, isn't it? Not saying you have to go all in on a loud colour but that's a bit neither colour, neither solid classic. Have you had a look at A.P.C. yet? Surely that's the natural home of your carefully selected capsule wardrobe. I do like a good grey scarf on black if it has enough volume, sometimes a detail with the fringing helps. A pattern is also a possibility, I have something very similar to the second pic and it works really well with monochrome outfits, especially black leather.
fridge, I'd be more prepared for Tokyo than Paris. They make the Parisians seem like nothing in comparison wrt to the low BMI, eating disorders, the smoking, the body shaming (staring, pointing, giggling, not unheard of), extremely repressive beauty standards, obligation of wearing makeup (it is considered impolite towards society as a whole in Japan if a woman doesn't wear it), etc. etc. They also have some very strange notions about Westerners, much the same as we have in reverse.
I hate to disappoint but I don't see a blog happening. Various reasons, for a good part of a year I've already been promising to comprise the information on the Fantastic Skincare threads (that I contribute to heavily) into a legible blog (though officially it's notablog blog, I see it as a place to have a good core of information that occasionally gets expanded on but is not a product pushing machine) instead of the stack of shared Google Docs as it is now. I'm being overly ambitious with it but I also am simply lacking the blocks of time necessary to get to it.
I'm also not a big fan of blogs as they are today, especially fashion blogs (never been a real follower of any, was an early adaptor of Instagram but left as soon as FB bought it and started getting their talons in to turn it into the monster that it is today, though there's a few really fun Insta accounts that I occasionally visit especially because they remind me of what it one as, one of dads on the school run with haphazzard outfits that get framed as streetsyle Insta stars and another of a French pastry chef who creates pastries inspired by his colourful shoe collection and photographs them together). My main issue is that it's not a conversation like on here, it's one person declaring something to others. The early days it was different, especially since a company was more likely to sue a blogger for defamation over a bad review to those posts no longer existing and blogger and brands firmly being in bed together. If I had simply made a blog post 'Going out tops for hourglasses this holiday season' as Adelica was interested in without actually conversing back and forth a bit it would have been a completely different lineup that wouldn't have been all that useful to her in the end (I suspect, even though she may end up like a Garden gnome now). When you set out broad to suit as many people as possible it waters it all down a bit IMO, hence why all bloggers tend to look very similar and wear much the same things.
Also, I'd be really shit at it. Travelled down to Antwerp today for the Antwerp Fashion Days which is a giant event to promote Belgian designers by a huge collective sample sale in various locations (lots of swanky warehouses, really fun). I bought some lovely things, but not once did I even contemplate to take pictures of all the lovely things and new designers I discovered to share here. If I remember I'll take some pics of my shiny new bits in natural light tomorrow. I may forget, or I may still be happy as a demented clem with them and overshare. Either or, just don't count on anything.