Parisiennes have long known that the key to leaving a good lasting impression is how fabulous you look as you walk out the door. This was the city in which the bustle was invented, after all. Dos à la Mode (Back in Fashion), a new exhibition at the Musée Bourdelle, the atelier museum of late-nineteenth-century […]
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Top Ten: Where to Best Photograph the Eiffel Tower
The Iron Lady makes her magnificent presence known at regular intervals as you go about your Parisian day, but there are certain vantage points from where she appears at her most awe-inspiring … Square Rapp Venture past the swirling grille fence of this sweet little nook tucked behind Avenue Rapp, and you’ll score yourself a […]
My Paris: Illustrator Clémentine Campardou
Having moved her life from Paris to Sydney several years ago, Clémentine Campardou now well appreciates the yearning much of the rest of the world has for the City of Light; while she has become very much a Sydneysider (if she’s not in her atelier Blule you’ll probably find her surfing the waves of Bondi […]
In Search of the Lost Moulin Rouge
If you’ve long had the Moulin Rouge written in bright red on that Paris bucket list of yours, by all means feel free to tick it off. But be aware that the dinner-and-show cabaret is a far cry from its old dancehall days, catering as it does to tourist buses rather than nostalgia seekers. The […]