So in putting together our 20 favorite Caroline de Maigret looks, we realized that no one in this world may be better than the French model and author at looking sexy in jeans. She may be a model/muse for Chanel, but Caroline de Maigret jeans is its own, exceptionally stylish thing.

Caroline de Maigret is one of those French women who makes me happy that I live in France: Do we even have an American analogue? She’s over 40, modeling for Chanel, and seems to be consistently on tour with her musician boyfriend. I remember my therapist once asking me: “Are you the sort of person who — when you walk into a room — people would say, ‘She looks like she knows how to have fun?’” Uh, now that I look at that, it seem a little inappropriate, but that might also be because the answer is of course not!!