Show your loved ones how much you care with these super-sweet Parisian souvenirs … Oh, and buy a few, because you might well be tempted to keep some for yourself! A Perfect Perfume. Fragrance, true, is a personal affair — one woman’s much-loved musky mixture is another’s recipe for a headache — but sniffing out […]
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The Inimitable Lee Miller: Surrealist Muse, Fashion Model Turned Photographer, War Correspondent, and Paris Lover
Surely one of the originals of modern, multitasking superwomen, Lee Miller is the subject of Kate Winslet’s new movie Lee (release date TBC) — fittingly so, for Lee’s amazing, action-packed life seems more fiction than fact. To read about her is to shake your head at just how much she achieved in her seventy years, […]
The Iconic Maria Callas and her Operatic Parisian Life
Legendary soprano Maria Callas — surely the very definition of the word diva — was born a century ago. In many ways, Maria seems timeless, eternal — such was her artistic impact on the world. In fact, she died way too young: in 1977 at the age of 53, in her Paris apartment at 36 […]
Jean Seberg and Her Inner Parisienne
It’s one of the delightful quirks of Parisian history that the most iconic French New Wave figure — not to mention one of the most quintessentially à-la-parisienne beauties — just happened to have been born and bred far from the City of Light. Following in the footsteps of the likes of Edith Wharton and Joséphine […]