How Emily successful Paris Compares to Bravo's Real Girlfriends successful Paris
If Lily Collins' Emily successful Paris character was real, she'd decidedly beryllium connected Real Girlfriends successful Paris.
At least, that's what galore fans thought erstwhile they watched the fabulous trailer for Bravo's newest world series, which follows six American expats living, moving and looking for emotion successful the City of Lights.
Now, RGIP's Victoria Zito is weighing successful connected the accuracy of the show's Emily successful Paris connections.
"It's truly hard not to marque the examination to the two, particularly with however celebrated and however palmy Emily successful Paris was," Victoria exclusively told E! News. "But our amusement gives a much earthy and authentic position of what beingness is really similar there."
Of course, determination are the similarities—for instance, Victoria teased a imaginable romance with her neighbor, a là Emily successful Paris—but the differences can't spell unnoticed.
"Our show, particularly with the documentary benignant that Bravo has," she continued, "shows specified a real-life version."
Growing up successful a blimpish household successful Texas, she said she "didn't adjacent know" she could person a occupation successful manner earlier getting accepted to the prestigious Parsons School of Design successful Paris.
Now, she's the caput decorator astatine nascent manner marque Chloe Colette.
"I'm surviving my imagination life," Victoria gushed. "As a designer, I've ever loved giving a portion of myself into idiosyncratic else's beingness and learning astir them. I'm an creator archetypal astatine heart, I've been coating since I was precise young. And past realizing that I could really person a vocation successful fashion, which is thing that I conscionable people loved increasing up—I'm doing my imagination occupation and I'm truly excited to spot wherever the adjacent steps take."
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Victoria said it was casual making Paris her caller home, particularly due to the fact that of the city's enchanting past and unsocial flair.
"I deliberation everyone finds thing antithetic successful Paris," she said. "But erstwhile I talk for myself, the manner facet of it—it's wherever each the greats were. There's thing magical erstwhile you're conscionable going to get a coffee. You're walking successful the aforesaid literal footsteps, aforesaid sidewalk arsenic Yves Saint Laurent oregon Karl Lagerfeld oregon immoderate of the different greats. You ne'er cognize what is going to travel retired of the night, you ne'er cognize who you're gonna meet."
That's not to accidental determination wasn't a small spot of civilization daze getting utilized to the French mode of life.
"I deliberation the biggest happening for maine is the smiling," she said with a laugh. "I travel from wherever if you marque oculus interaction with someone—as astir of the U.S.—it's precise rude if you don't smile. Whereas successful Paris, you don't grin astatine strangers. If you grin astatine idiosyncratic you're inviting them over. It's similar flirting and it's specified a difference."
Real Girlfriends successful Paris premieres tonight, Sept. 5, astatine 9:15 p.m. with 2 back-to-back occurrence connected Bravo.
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