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For a few months everybody has been all over the moon about young chefs like James Henry (the Australian chef took the city by storm when he cooked at Au Passage last year and created a gigantic buzz with the opening of his new restaurant, Bones) and especially Bertrand Grébaut. Read More
Right next to the historic Courrèges shop on Rue François 1er near the Champs-Élysées, the brand has just opened a new store: Courrèges Millésimes. Concurrently, the Galeries Lafayette will host an exclusive pop up store.
Courrèges is definitely in full bloom. Read More
A few weeks ago, Matthias Aker’s documentary ‘The Artist is Present’ was released in France. What a strong statement on art and performance. The movie is about Marina Abramović’s MOMA retrospective, in 2010.The artist had the idea to create a new performance in which she would sit motionless in front of museum visitors, gazing into their eyes, during the opening hours of the museum, for three months in a row. Read More
Here’s something I’d like to see more often: a stunning photo exhibition in resonance with a series of four screenings in an art house. Read More
This is an interesting show. Le Petit Palais museum in Paris gathered an impressive collection of sacred art, offering the visitor a journey through today’s great religions.
On-site cooking is fashionable. For some time now people try to eat local, and preferably organic. The French crew La Blogothèque, famous for its videos of ‘Concerts à emporter’ (Take-away concerts), goes one step further and illustrates with a series of videos called ‘Un chef à emporter’ (Take-away chef) how it is perfectly doable and even a lot more fun to cook and eat from what you can gather or get access to in a very short perimeter. Read More
Fashion bloggers were the first to develop a whole new way to buy and more importantly share about it. The time of online concept stores, where everything you buy is instantly shared on Facebook, has come. In France, websites like French Vestaire Collective , former Vestiaire de Copines (“Girlfriends Dressing room”) opened a new era of consumption.
Did you think Gossip Girl was over for good? Prepare yourself for Spotted, “the app that lives at night”! The Parisian crew Die Nacht created a revolutionary app available for iPhone and Android. Read More
Fashion bloggers and users of forums like the inevitable Styleforum.net seem to be obsessed with developing patina on everything they get their hands on. What is it exactly? Because we are clearly not talking about vulgar shoe shine…
Nine Antico is pure dynamite in the pretty world of French“girly comic books”. The talented 30 year-old released a few comic books like ‘Le Goût du Paradis’ (The Taste of Paradise), ‘Girls Don’t Cry’, ‘Coney Island Baby’ and ‘Tonight’. She loves to tell about shaky relationships and the nastiness of girl friendship, in a true, disenchanted yet so hilarious way.
Vincent Moon is the main director of La Blogothèque, a French collective blog. He is famous for his “Concerts à emporter” (‘Take-away concerts’) when he filmed Arcade Fire, R.E.M., and a lot of more DIY bands and he proves now with a series of breathtaking documentaries that he sure is always on the move.
French media are all reporting a revival of the French New Wave. Of course the French New Wave had much less impact than what happened in the UK, where it was much more than a sub-genre of rock music.
Two years after the petition for the reopening of “Quand la nuit meurt en silence” (“When the night silently dies”) and”Night General Estates”, nightlife has regained a little strength in Paris.
