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Name: Guillaume H.


City: Paris



Guillaume is the co-founder of Fluokids, which became a blog phenomenon in France and led him to curate various brand partnerships with brands like Motorola, Scion, Havana Club and Eurostar.


He has been writing about music and lifestyle for the likes of GQ online, Chronicart, Frog and Trax and is now running Fool House, a music label and management platform (Mondkopf, Delorean…) while studying new media.



posts by this scout:

Young and Furious Chefs

(Mar 26, 2013)   For a few months everybody has been all over the moon about young chefs like James Henry (the Australian chef took the cit...
File Under: Food & Snacking
City: Paris

Courrèges Millésimes

(Mar 26, 2013) Right next to the historic Courrèges shop on Rue François 1er near the Champs-Élysées, the brand has just opened a new store...
File Under: Brands, Culture Vulture, Fashion, Fashion + Design
City: Paris

SuperTalk!

(Mar 23, 2013)   Une époque, des conférences: the tone is set. I discovered the crazy agency SuperTalk via the program of events and conf...
File Under: People, Places
City: Paris

Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present

(Mar 07, 2013) A few weeks ago, Matthias Aker’s documentary ‘The Artist is Present’ was released in France. What a strong statemen...
File Under: People, Places
City: Paris

World darkest side photographs

(Mar 06, 2013) Here’s something I’d like to see more often: a stunning photo exhibition in resonance with a series of four screenings in an ...
File Under: People, Places
City: Paris

User guide to god(s)

(Mar 06, 2013) This is an interesting show. Le Petit Palais museum in Paris gathered an impressive collection of sacred art, offering the visito...
File Under: Places
City: Paris

On-site cooking

(Mar 04, 2013)     On-site cooking is fashionable. For some time now people try to eat local, and preferably organic. The French crew...
File Under: Culture Vulture, Food & Snacking
City: Paris

Bandcamp: from micro-shops to licenced music collections

(Mar 04, 2013)   The digital music meta-shop Bandcamp announced its plans for an extension for their fans. This offers the fans and artists of ...
File Under: Music, People, Web
City: Paris

The rise of collaborative consumption

(Jan 17, 2013) Fashion bloggers were the first to develop a whole new way to buy and more importantly share about it. The time of online concep...
File Under: Fashion + Design, Tech, Web
City: Paris

Spotted!

(Jan 15, 2013) Did you think Gossip Girl was over for good? Prepare yourself for Spotted, “the app that lives at night”! The Parisian crew D...
File Under: Music, Tech, Web
City: Paris

Sheen on!

(Jan 13, 2013) Fashion bloggers and users of forums like the inevitable Styleforum.net seem to be obsessed with developing patina on everythin...
File Under: Fashion, Web
City: Paris

Nine Antico’s Girls

(Jan 11, 2013) Nine Antico is pure dynamite in the pretty world of French“girly comic books”. The talented 30 year-old released a few comic ...
File Under: People
City: Paris

Vincent Moon’s little planets

(Jan 09, 2013) Vincent Moon is the main director of La Blogothèque, a French collective blog. He is famous for his “Concerts à emporter” (...
File Under: Movies, Music, People, Video, Web
City: Paris

New Wave Revival!

(Jan 08, 2013) French media are all reporting a revival of the French New Wave. Of course the French New Wave had much less impact than what hap...
File Under: Music
City: Paris

Is Paris nightlife dead yet?

(Jan 07, 2013) Two years after the petition for the reopening of  “Quand la nuit meurt en silence” (“When the night silently dies”) a...
File Under: Places
City: Paris

Ich liebe dich, Françoise!

(Jan 04, 2013) Ich liebe dich, Françoise! is a mini festival (two days of concerts including Laurent Garnier, Baumecker, and one German brunch...
File Under: Music
City: Paris

Némo is back!

(Jan 04, 2013) Némo is 15 years old and is the most famous digital arts festival in France. It’s an audiovisual festival produced by Arca...
File Under: Fashion + Design, Music, Places
City: Paris

The Museum of Everything

(Jan 01, 2013) At the opposite of the commercial festival built around FIAC (which attracted no less than 70,000 visitors and featured 182 art g...
File Under: Fashion + Design, People, Places
City: Paris

Food trucks take over Paris!

(Oct 06, 2012) It is nothing less than a revolution here in Paris. American food seems to be suddenly much more than huge portions of fat fast f...
File Under: Culture Vulture, Food & Snacking
City: Paris

Le Fooding: seriously made but without a serious spirit

(Oct 04, 2012)   It’s not uncommon to hear from a Parisian “Le Fooding? It’s my Bible”. What is now a Paris-based international movement...
File Under: Culture Vulture, Food & Snacking
City: Paris

Let’s not forget about chaos

(Jul 28, 2012) Everyday watching TV we witness economic analysis which can sound very rational, yet very strange at the same time – much like ...
File Under: Fashion + Design, Places
City: Paris

Suits

(Jul 27, 2012) The other day on the french public radio website, I was listening to a french scholar named Severine Barthes who suggested that i...
File Under: T.V.
City: Paris

New Slang

(Jul 26, 2012) A few days ago I experienced what they call the generation gap. The first sign was earlier this year when I heard about teenagers ...
File Under: People
City: Paris

Network Awesome

(Jul 25, 2012) Network Awesome, to put it plainly, is Youtube videos repackaged. Except it is way cooler than it sounds. Because the people who c...
File Under: Web
City: Paris

Holy Motors

(Jul 24, 2012) Leos Carax’s Holy Motors is a surrealist travel into a director’s mind and his concerns about the decline of cinema. Accordin...
File Under: Movies
City: Paris

Trendy fast-food: Gyoza Bar

(Jul 23, 2012) The bar trend seems to have no end. After water bars, soup bars, smoothie bars, salad bars, etc. Paris welcomes chef Shinishi Sat...
File Under: Places
City: Paris

Life In Slow Motion

(Jun 11, 2012) Sometimes I wish the world was slower. Especially when I wake up in Paris at the sound of people running in the streets.Le 104, t...
File Under: Culture Vulture, Socializing
City: Paris

Reality Bites!

(Jun 09, 2012) It’s been a while since I started looking for quality street food in Paris and I can’t believe I’ve only just found this rea...
File Under: Culture Vulture, Fast Food, Sprint Passions
City: Paris

Let’s Garden Together

(Jun 08, 2012)   Gardening can become addictive if you’re not careful. I started out with a single pot of thyme, because it smells good an...
File Under: Culture Vulture, Socializing
City: Paris

Art is squat

(Jun 07, 2012) Friche Belle-de-Mai in Marseille Squatting buildings in Paris has become a way for young contemporary artists to show their work w...
File Under: Beauty, Culture Vulture
City: Paris

Glamorisation of Pornography

(May 04, 2012) Porn has changed, and the cliche of the siliconated blonde has started drifting away with the new century to let the beauty of po...
File Under: Beauty, Culture Vulture, People, Video, Web
City: Paris

Au passage

(Apr 09, 2012) In the pretty quiet Passage St Sebastien, which is a secret shortcut to go from Oberkampf to Le Marais, Au Passage is the main, i...
File Under: Sports + Leisure
City: Paris

Cinéma du réel

(Apr 09, 2012) I’m the kind of optimistic person thinking that there is more or less always the same amount of quality content in a specific fi...
File Under: Sports + Leisure
City: Paris

Djavid Rawat

(Apr 08, 2012) Name: Djavid Rawat Age: 32 Activities: I own a bar, Le Motel (since early 2007) and an Indian restaurant, Le Tiffin (since lat...
File Under: People, Places
City: Paris

Boiler Room

(Apr 08, 2012) Music sponsoring is a game where few brands have succeeded in competing with the efforts of Red Bull (Music Academy). The Boiler ...
File Under: Music, Tech
City: Paris

April77

(Apr 07, 2012) April 77 does it so right it hurts. Among the French designer brands, it has one of the most edgy reputations. Most fashion brand...
File Under: Brands, Fashion + Design
City: Paris

Le Café Qui Parle

(Mar 05, 2012) Situated in the ultra-touristic Montmartre, but not in its busiest streets, Le Café Qui Parle is a bit off-beat there as a resta...
File Under: Places
City: Paris

Green is in

(Mar 05, 2012) Le Comptoir Général is one of these huge places that you can explore endlessly. If you like being surrounded by eclectic beaut...
File Under: Fashion + Design, Places
City: Paris

Happy Eaters

(Mar 05, 2012)   Vegetarian and organic, Joy in Food is the best canteen of the Clichy neighborhood. When it comes to eat healthy deliciou...
File Under: Places
City: Paris

Food for your ears

(Mar 05, 2012) A new generation of radio documentary makers has found a home on the website arteradio.com. Carolina Fontana is among them and I ...
File Under: Places
City: Paris

Protected: Man of the world à la Parisienne

(Feb 22, 2012)   I like how being a freelancer in Paris gives me the opportunity to excite my curiosity and build a different routine for mysel...
File Under: Fashion + Design, Man of the World, Music, People, Places, Tech, Video
City: Paris

Rice & Fish

(Feb 06, 2012) Before Rice & Beans, there was Rice & Fish. Same owner, whole different game, with a Japanese/American restaurant. Don...
File Under: Places
City: Paris

Comfort Milk

(Feb 06, 2012) I don’t know if it’s because of the winter but I’ve been thinking a lot about comfort food lately. If there need to be a d...
File Under: Places
City: Paris

La Villette Enchantée

(Feb 06, 2012)   Le Parc de la Vilette is a rising area for music in Paris. The most renown place might be La Grande Halle de la Villette, ...
File Under: Music, Places
City: Paris

If you do this, then that will happen

(Feb 06, 2012) IFTT is an internet tool. You know what they do these tools: they make things easier. If you attend scholar conferences on Faceb...
File Under: Tech, Web
City: Paris

Golden Pat, the best kept secret

(Feb 06, 2012)   It is a well-known thing that a secret gives more value. This is also true for restaurants. The best kept addresses are the bes...
File Under: Places
City: Paris

French Trotters

(Feb 06, 2012) With French Trotters nothing is random. The Parisian shop, pioneering the trend of heritage fashion, has launched its own brand ...
File Under: Brands, Fashion + Design
City: Paris

The main street exile

(Feb 06, 2012) The neighbourhood around the Grands Boulevards subway station in Paris attracts a lot of tourists, but it is difficult to underst...
File Under: Movies, Places, Sports + Leisure
City: Paris

A quest for… the perfect satchel

(Feb 06, 2012) The last episode of my shopping adventures consisted in finding the right bag to carry my 13’ Macbook around. I’ve been buyin...
File Under: Fashion + Design
City: Paris

A little something of Paris and elsewhere

(Feb 06, 2012) Sempé has played a great role representing France in foreign media, with his numerous drawings for the cover of the New Yoker in...
File Under: People
City: Paris

A quest for… couscous

(Feb 06, 2012) When craving for an affordable and comforting lunch the options might not be so obvious in Paris: from the usual sushi place to t...
File Under: Places
City: Paris

From the mess to the masses

(Dec 19, 2011) When I interviewed Phoenix in 2009 for the release of their album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, they just came back from their show o...
File Under: Music
City: Paris

Lacoste Live: clubbing and sports are not enemies anymore

(Dec 19, 2011) I didn’t quite understand what Lacoste was trying to do with its “L !ve” line until I saw this making-of of their latest v...
File Under: Brands, Fashion
City: Paris

Indie Federation

(Dec 19, 2011) A few years ago, the main French electronic music magazine, Trax, was bought by a new company and the former editorial team went ...
File Under: Music, T.V.
City: Paris

Bad music for bad people

(Dec 19, 2011) Under the name Born Bad, Bad music for bad people stands a record shop and a record label which has been a strong protagonist i...
File Under: Music
City: Paris

Read it on the Lip

(Dec 16, 2011) Have you heard of Lip? As far as watches are concerned, France might not be the most famous country but if we have a brand to be ...
File Under: Fashion
City: Paris

Dye young

(Dec 16, 2011) Juan De Guillebon aka DyE played with several bands revolving around the Tigersushi team before he released his first EP, with a ...
File Under: Music
City: Paris

How to become a ninja for free

(Dec 16, 2011) How can you become a ninja for free? This quintessential question isn’t asked by a young padawan on his way to his first LSD su...
File Under: Web
City: Paris

Sh*t Siri Says

(Dec 16, 2011) Siri can look a bit like your weird uncle. Or a boyfriend you don’t know very much yet, and who remains somehow unpredictable. ...
File Under: Tech
City: Paris

Another thought about Siri

(Dec 15, 2011) Seeing people around me using Siri reminds me of Nicholas Negroponte obsession about vocal command as the ideal interface to inte...
File Under: Tech
City: Paris

Supercut and no wounds

(Dec 15, 2011) Knowledge comes out a huge corpus of data, and a systematic way to look at it. And somehow, some knowledge comes out of Supercut....
File Under: Web
City: Paris

Gangsta rap from a French girl point of view

(Dec 15, 2011) Sandy Lakdar is one of her kind. As a young French girl fantasizing about gangsta-rap, she could have just kept on blasting mixta...
File Under: Music, T.V., Video
City: Paris

A good look for French glasses

(Dec 15, 2011) Jimmy Fairly combines all the arguments a modern brand can put together to appeal to the self-conscious consumer. And the “...
File Under: Fashion
City: Paris

Pardon my French underwear

(Dec 15, 2011) From La Belle Echoppe to Bleu de Paname, the trend of boasting “Made in France” is strongly rising . Le slip frança...
File Under: Fashion
City: Paris

The underground art, literaly

(Dec 14, 2011) A bunch of famous graffiti artists including C215, How and Nosm, Futura, Saber, SheOne, etc., has been participating in the Under...
File Under: Places
City: Paris

A new generation of “netlabels”

(Dec 14, 2011)  Around ten years ago now, there was a lot of buzz about what was then called “netlabels”. Piracy, back then, looked like a ...
File Under: Music
City: Paris

Juno, Mixcloud and Resident Advisor

(Dec 14, 2011) While Beatport remains the most renowned shopping brand in the field of digital club music sales, Juno Download has recently sign...
File Under: Tech
City: Paris

Enlarge your productivity

(Dec 14, 2011) Finding a nice place to work outside my home is one of my main objectives and struggle everyday (along with, err, get around to p...
File Under: Places, Tech
City: Paris

Making cinema with politics

(Dec 14, 2011) “L’Exercice de l’État” is a film by Pierre Schoeller, who makes a point avoiding to produce another carefully crafted an...
File Under: Movies, Video
City: Paris

Pierre Schaeffer interview with a young director

(Nov 01, 2011) On the Ina.fr website (National Audiovisual Archives), there’s a lot of pearls to be found, such as this interview between a st...
File Under: Video
City: Paris

Job interviews as a real TV show

(Oct 31, 2011) Thursday, October 5th, a rather special documentary was aired on national television (France 2). Named “The face for the job...
File Under: Video
City: Paris

Mama loves you

(Oct 30, 2011) Located in front of La Flèche d’Or, a renowned music venue, the Mama Shelter embodies a new breed of hotels. With a menu signe...
File Under: Sports + Leisure
City: Paris

Entering The Playboy Club

(Oct 29, 2011) After watching the first few episodes of The Playboy Club, I’ve asked myself: will Mad Men-inspired series be the ideal format ...
File Under: Video
City: Paris

Aphex Twin 1996 MTV Interview

(Oct 05, 2011) I think these are the first images ever where I see the face from Come to Daddy and Windowlicker in a video answering an intervie...
File Under: Video
City: Paris

Buying a PS2 again

(Oct 04, 2011) I wanted to try this: the videogame revival. Oh, I know videogames are not dead yet or are they? I read as much about articles o...
File Under: Tech
City: Paris

Bleu de Paname

(Oct 03, 2011) For a fashion brand, Bleu de Paname carries a bold statement in its very name : local production + workwear interest. The attenti...
File Under: Fashion + Design
City: Paris

La Féline – the band

(Oct 03, 2011) Taking its name from a 1942 film by Renoir, La Féline is a French trio with a refreshing approach to songwriting. The beautiful ...
File Under: Music
City: Paris

Jules & Jim hôtel

(Oct 02, 2011) Setting a reference to Jules & Jim, one of Francois Truffaut’s most famous nouvelle vague films, is pretty courageous f...
File Under: Sports + Leisure
City: Paris

La Femme of the year

(Oct 01, 2011) La Femme is one of the great buzzbands in France this year. The name might seem pretentious but then you hear her voice. It’s ...
File Under: Music
City: Paris

Nicolas Winding Refn’s Pusher trilogy

(Oct 01, 2011) Nicolas Winding Refn’s last movie has been just released in the cinemas. From the first trailer, “Drive” was ...
File Under: Video
City: Paris

From kids to juveniles

(Sep 30, 2011) It’s a bit annoying how a lot of bands feel the need to tell us how young they are. There is the MGMT song, “Kids”...
File Under: Music
City: Paris

Grrrr block party

(Sep 30, 2011) The block party might just be the most fascinating thing to a Parisian, because since tourism is such an important part of the ec...
File Under: Sports + Leisure
City: Paris

Paris Mexican Speakeasies

(Sep 29, 2011) Two years ago, everybody was crazy about the Pop Up bar in Le Marais, operated by the famous La Clique promoters (who also handl...
File Under: Sports + Leisure
City: Paris

Tumblr and The Visual Collective Subconscious

(Sep 29, 2011) Is it too early to consider the role of Tumblr in rising awareness about our cultural subconscious? It’s funny how everybody cl...
File Under: Tech
City: Paris

Machines’ chant

(Sep 08, 2011) The two volumes of Le Chant de la Machine (Delcourt) were the results of the collaboration between party promoters of the infamou...
File Under: Music
City: Paris

A quest for hotdogs

(Sep 07, 2011) I always deplore the lack of good street food in Paris and especially in my neighbourhood, the 2nd arrondissement. But, to some e...
File Under: Sports + Leisure
City: Paris

Jane Evelyn Atwood at MEP

(Sep 06, 2011) Jane Evelyn Atwood is getting her first big retrospective at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, with material ranging fro...
File Under: Sports + Leisure
City: Paris

Café A

(Sep 04, 2011) In Paris, because gardens are an exception, everything revolves around la terrasse. It becomes pretty ridiculous sometimes, as i...
File Under: Sports + Leisure
City: Paris

Rice & Beans

(Sep 03, 2011) In the small Rue Greneta, just next to St Denis street, which is famous for its French prostitutes, Rice & Beans is a Mexica...
File Under: Sports + Leisure
City: Paris

Le Centre Commercial

(Sep 02, 2011) Le Centre Commercial opened its doors a few weeks ago in rue de Marseille and it is already one of my favorite concept stores in ...
File Under: Sports + Leisure
City: Paris

Longform, the little joys

(Sep 01, 2011) Somehow we don’t really want to find too much interesting content on the web. There’s all that talk about curation but what h...
File Under: Web
City: Paris

YSL as the entertainer

(Aug 31, 2011) Sometimes TV shows have something to do with philosophical jokes. In this scene from What’s my line, we are looking at a collec...
File Under: T.V.
City: Paris

Summer of Love

(Aug 20, 2011) Été d’amour (summer of love), the name might sound cheesy but covers pretty much what anyone hanging around in Paris in July ...
File Under: Sports + Leisure
City: Paris

Pitchfork Music Festival in Paris

(Aug 20, 2011) Apparently there will be a film about Pitchfork! It’s not every day that we see an indie media becoming the center of a pitch ...
File Under: Music
City: Paris

Le Freak c’est Chic

(Aug 19, 2011) Few series have such cult status that they give their name to an exhibition. That is now the case with Freaks & Geeks -produc...
File Under: Video
City: Paris

Pieces & Tricks

(Aug 19, 2011) Public Domaine, referring to the title of a scene defining skateboard video, is finishing at La Gaité Lyrique and the exhibitio...
File Under: Fashion + Design
City: Paris

The New House Sound of… The Planet

(Aug 19, 2011) Jess & Crabbe acquired a cult status at the end of the 90’s, with their emblematic EP’s of the French touch house mov...
File Under: Music
City: Paris

Movies by the moon

(Aug 18, 2011) The Forum des Images has kept the company and its stars to the August sky for eleven years now. Eleven years that films go out f...
File Under: Video
City: Paris

La Belle Echoppe opens its doors

(Jul 24, 2011) Just like all-american heritage brands, traditional French products have been subject to a greater interest lately with more and ...
File Under: Fashion, Fashion + Design
City: Paris

The World Belongs to Daddy

(Jul 24, 2011) French film director Alain Cavalier was born not far from my own birthplace, in Loir-et-Cher (center of France). I don’t know i...
File Under: Movies, Video
City: Paris

Club Silencio

(Jul 23, 2011) Remember Naomi Watts and her brunette friend entering a red cabaret in Mullholand Drive ? They listen to the open-heart, moving s...
File Under: Places, Sports + Leisure
City: Paris

Man of the moment

(Jul 23, 2011) I don’t remember where I read this interview of Guillaume Henry (ex-Givenchy and Paule Ka designer) in which he was saying he ...
File Under: Fashion, Fashion + Design
City: Paris

Absurd Poetry

(Jul 22, 2011) Last week Miranda July attended the Parisian premiere of her new film The Future at Le Nouvel Odeon Theater. It’s funny how sh...
File Under: Movies, Video
City: Paris

Public Bath

(Jul 22, 2011) I had first heard of the Petit Bain project through a friend something like five years ago, and it is only opening now. Petit Ba...
File Under: Places, Sports + Leisure
City: Paris

Ears wide open at Quai Branly

(Jul 21, 2011) Les Siestes Électroniques is a great music festival in Toulouse, in the south of France, reaching a wider range of styles than w...
File Under: Music, Places, Sports + Leisure
City: Paris

1981 & +, a golden age

(Jul 21, 2011) French photographer Sophie Bramly presents unpublished images of the early hiphop scene and downtown NYC at 12mail gallery. I rec...
File Under: Places, Sports + Leisure
City: Paris

“You have nothing against youth, do you ?”

(Jul 20, 2011) June 24 and Saturday June 25, L’Autre Ciné-Club de la Cinémathèque Française presented the first edition of its festival Vo...
File Under: Movies, Video
City: Paris

Die Nacht is young

(Jul 20, 2011) Die Nacht is an exception in Paris. The answer to every clubber whining about the tiny Parisian clubs with low ceilings , where t...
File Under: Places, Sports + Leisure
City: Paris

So Foot, leaders of the pack

(Jul 19, 2011) Among the multitude of French cultural magazines where advertising is a priority, So Foot happens to be one of the last entities ...
File Under: Entrepreneurial Spirit
City: Paris

A ride with Pédale

(Jul 19, 2011) Reading the first page of a magazine where you don’t recognize most of the names quoted in the table of contents and when you a...
File Under: Entrepreneurial Spirit
City: Paris

Wish You Were Here, Lads

(Jul 05, 2011) I had just finished reading the scans of an article from The Face entitled “The Ins & Outs of high street factionR...
File Under: Places, Sports + Leisure
City: Paris