Because nothing makes a glamorous star all the more glamour than a Parisian backdrop, n’est-ce pas? Sophia Loren at Hôtel Plaza Athenée, 1956 When this photo was taken, the Italian starlet was in town promoting her movie Scandal in Sorrento, and well on her way to mega-star status, about to shoot her first Hollywood movie, […]
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Eleven Perfect Parisian Terraces
This week sees the reopening of Paris’s café and restaurant terraces, after a hibernation of more than half a year. That means: Paris is slowly becoming Paris once more. Of course, Paris is about the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre and Notre-Dame and the various other architectural wonders that take your breath away. But as […]
Paris Gift Guide (or, Ten Ways to Parisfy your Life)
I don’t know about you, but the combination of not being able to travel to Paris along with the occasional home lockdown this year has meant I’ve tried more than ever to bring Paris into my private world. That has meant reading so much that I’ve had to tweak my glasses script, eating likely more […]
My Paris: Kirsten Carriol, Founder of Beauty Brand Lano
It was during a long-haul flight from Paris to Sydney, while bemoaning the skin-drying effects of airplane travel, that PR agent Kirsten Carriol had an a-ha moment that would change the course of her career. She thought about the lanolin that her South Australian farmer grandparents had slathered on all over, and about how her […]