Fashion shouldn’t be intimidating, at least not according to Nathalie Bui. The petite fashionista spent ten years working with her sister, the European designer Barbara Bui, all the while cultivating her own sense of style. And now she’s bringing her creative energy to the Paris fashion scene with the opening of her own boutique, make my d.
Sometimes the French just get it right. For the 20 years preceding the buzzy unveiling of Manhattan’s Highline Park, Parisians have quietly enjoyed their own walk-in-the-sky: the promenade plantée, a 4.5-kilometer respite from the often overbearing honks and crowds that can conquer even the best-planned day in Paris (the best laid schemes of mice and men and all of that). This respite is a garden, a journey, a picnic; it’s a moment to breathe and walk under an arcade of trees and colors; a moment to appreciate the marriage between nature and architecture. The promenade plantée is Paris’ very own elevated park.
Everyone loves Spring in Paris. That’s because American-expat chef Daniel Rose made the 16-seat restaurant he opened in 2006 on the rue de la Tour-d’Auvergne a hit with food critics and fickle French foodies alike. Rose prepared a set menu of four courses using the freshest seasonal finds at the daily market, adding a new level of culinary energy to the Paris dining scene.
Stretching from the place de la Concorde to Étoile, the grandiose and majestic Champs-Élysées with its art de vivre à la française needs no introduction. Édouard Lefebvre of the Champs-Élysées Committee, which aims to promote and preserve the well-deserved reputation of the avenue, gives us his view of a place that he knows better than anyone else.
It’s been nearly two years since the smoke cleared in Paris. In February 2008, the decree banning smoking in every corner of “entertainment and conviviality” in France took effect. And in the time since, Paris has undergone a silent transformation with some surprising effects.
Supperclubs are nothing new. Whether the recent popularity they’re enjoying first started in London or Manhattan — where the hook was exclusivity and bragging rights about ‘discovering’ underground chefs in their lairs — or in the impossibly small kitchens of aspiring Brooklyn chefs and foodies is anyone’s guess.
Emma Lindsay lost it in Paris. So did Michael Fitzgerald. But both were let in on a little-known secret that allowed them to keep their wits about them and, in at least one case, reunite them with that which was lost. Both Americans learned—the hard way—just how easy it is to lose your valuables when surrounded by the beauty of Paris. But both were fortunate to have Parisian friends that could point them in the right direction: to the 15th arrondissement. That’s where many of the treasures lost by city-dwellers and visitors alike end up, at the Prefecture de Police’s Bureau des Objets Trouvés et des Fourrières—the Lost and Found of Paris.
Wine people have a million dollar question. It goes, “What was the bottle that did it for you?” I don’t have a proper answer. For me, there was no bottle. For me it was an actual grape. A moldy, rotten, wrinkled grape. You do not have to have an amazing sense of smell to love wine. You do have to have a sense of wonder. When you begin to pay the smallest bit of attention to anything, I guarantee it will open your perception. If you are very devoted, it may even become like a little guru.
Like so many Americans in this city, Zeva Bellel came to Paris by way of a dream—and an impractical one, at that. Raised in Brooklyn, New York, she spent her youth indulging her Francophile fantasies, devouring French new wave films, and scheming about ways to one day live in Paris. Met with much skepticism from her family and friends (her grandfather demanded, “When are you ever going to speak French, you live in Brooklyn for chrissakes?”), Zeva had to fight to make her dream a reality.
Fashionistas in Paris have discovered a relatively new mecca on the rue des Rosiers in the Marais. That’s where global budget fashion group H&M opened a new store at the end of March, launching a new fashion concept combining the meticulous attention to detail of ready-to-wear design with down-to-earth pricing.
Come Christmastime, Paris truly embodies its position as the City of Lights. City streets—from the Champs-Élysées to the rue Cler and the winding rue des Abbesses in Montmartre are alit with festive lights. One of the most popular holiday attractions, however, are the windows of the grands magasins along Boulevard Haussman. That’s where rows of shoppers line up to see what the holiday season has in store behind the glass at Galeries Lafayette and Printemps. …See (and read) more here.
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Some people plan their itinerary in Paris around H&M. There’s a new location to add to your plans.
If it's Friday, there's probably a strike somewhere in Paris.
La Mom explains the rules for playgroups in Paris.
Originally from the Sarthe region of northwest France, Benoît Couvrant, 29, is responsible for the
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