Nothing beats early springtime in Paris for sensorial pleasure. There’s the silky feel of the sunshine, which suffuses the still-fresh air with hints of golden warmth. The sweet taste of tantalising new-season treats (such as fraisiers studded with spring’s first strawberries and macarons flavoured with zesty fruits). The delightfully easy-on-the-eye shades of blossoms and blooms, […]
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Valentine’s Month Special: Parisian Gifts for Loved Ones (or, of course, yourself)
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 […]
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 […]