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Spectators watch quietly, listening to the dragging of tango feet on the stone quai. Beautiful Parisian women turn up alone each night with their dancing shoes, waiting to be asked to tango by total strangers. A little old man sits on the edge of the river with his radio playing Argentinian music and guarding the dancers’ [...]
I‘ve been won over by the shoe that’s in every French coquette’s closet. Is it that generously-thick white rubber sole that does it for me? The tomboy colours? The fact that they instantly de-slutify the most teetering-on-the-edge-of-sluttydom outfits? Or is it just that ‘je ne sais quoi’ that a French girl brings to a pair [...]
Summer has arrived here in Paris, which means, so have the American girls. For twenty-something Parisian boys, this is hunting season. American girls are numerous, they very much enjoy alcohol (as well as the no-age restriction) and they’re generally less intimidating than your average female Parisienne. French women –who are well aware of this themselves– [...]
I did the unthinkable last weekend. I organised a double date. Oh the horror I experienced, I wouldn’t know where to begin. I could start by describing what an obnoxiously sunny day it was, how the restaurant’s terrace indecently over-looked a glistening canal, and terrifyingly, the conversation post-main course turned to weekend escapes in the [...]
When I first moved to Paris, I quickly found out that the real nightlife was not in the bars or in the clubs but in the Parisian apartments. House parties. House parties galore. I wasn’t sure at first how I was going to get invited to one, but sure enough, if you break away from [...]
A London friend emailed me an article this morning about tourists visiting the French capital, specifically Japanese, who fall prey to what is known as the ‘Paris syndrome’. Around a million Japanese travel here every year (yeesh), many expecting the fairytale vacation they once saw in a Woody Allen movie. But an average of up [...]
… and pretending like you really give a – okay okay fine, some people do, I get it. But instead of browsing dead people’s art (hope I’m not coming across as insensitive to the art world or anything), why not take advantage of the fact that hey, you’re alive, and probably capable of being creative [...]
Berlusconi and Strauss-Kahn. Both were in positions of immense power and very much in the public eye. Why would they risk their reputations so callously? Or why were their ongoing antics obligingly brushed under the carpet for so long? The Italian and the Frenchman… Both notorious lovers, both synonymous with an infamous culture of vigorous [...]
Ever since I was a young girl, I’ve suffered from an incurable fear of feeling like a tourist. When I decided to move to Paris six months ago, on nothing more than a whim, I knew I had to make it my city– and fast (this is already sounding like a cheap movie trailer). Okay [...]
There is something about the history of dandyism that seems more intriguing than most of fashion’s yo-yo past– which is probably why I’ve now done three consecutive posts on it. It certainly goes further than the silk handkerchiefs and air-fairy behavior. We’ve looked at the immaculate sartorialism of the Sapeurs in Africa’s poorest slums, uncovered [...]
Here’s one they left out of the history textbooks. A recent French film, Free Men, brought to
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sassy: adjective \ˈsa-sē\ impudent, lively, spirited, vigorous, distinctively smart and
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Apparently Keira Knightley and her co-stars improvised their way through this thirteen minute
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You may recall we recently discovered Kowloon City, the Hong Kong ‘historical
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Alright, so you might have noticed I have a weakness for French real estate p0rn. [Sigh] I
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This breathtaking pool of glistening turquoise water under creamy ecclesiastical stone vaulting is
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He was selling custom-made clothing to Hip Hop’s finest for thousands of dollars a piece,
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Every once in a while, a fashion brand does something that stays with you and swims around in your
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I remember when I first saw it, Avenue Junot, the cobblestone road that winds up to Montmartre
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