2003-07-20 04:00:00 PDT Pasadena-- Some say the day of the gamine is done. No more saucy, perky, irresistible young French actresses need apply for international stardom, a la Leslie Caron.

Attention all Amélie wannabes: The January Anthropologie catalog knows that you secretly wish you could be a quirky, insouciant French gamine living in Paris. Or at least: Dress like one.

Curiously, it was the French who invented the gamine look — originally called the coupe à la garçonne (boy's cut) — in the 1920s, making it even more peculiar that there's such a fuss going ...

One of the shocks of losing your hair temporarily to chemotherapy is not the sudden, rather French gamine look you acquire, but that your newly-bald head is a) unexpectedly soft and fuzzy and b ...