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Everyone needs to find their own café– it’s an identity thing. 1. The Grounds, Alexandria, Australia Once a former warehouse and pie factory in the early 1900s, The Grounds has got to be one of the most beautiful and eclectic coffee shops I’ve ever seen. With a coffee ‘research and testing facility’ alongside the café, [...]
Tokyo: a supercity of the future with unique culture, entertainment and …. cat cafés. By cat cafés, I mean supervised indoor cat rental (with caramelized lattés). For a cover charge according to the desired amount of ‘cat time’, guests can cuddle with feline friends while having a catch-up coffee with human friends, surf the net [...]
At 9 meters squared, Le Pt’t Bar is literally the most petit bar in Paris. Inside, a ninety-something year-old bartender, known as Madame Polo , her slightly over-fed gray cat and a cage of canaries are your hosts. Serving Belgian beer, Calvados and wine in her surreal post-war era time machine, Madame Polo squeezes in a [...]
Any champagne drinkers out there? Here’s a little DIY project for you. Turn your left-over champagne wire cages into a collection of mini Parisian style café chairs! Why? Artist and blogger Becky Kazana (The Fab Miss B) suggests using them as place card holders for a charming touch to your dinner parties. The rest of [...]
By ‘un café’. I obviously mean a mocha latte or a glass of rosé, along with a little tarte, maybe some madeleines and of course, plenty of undisturbed lounging time à la Parisien. (You won’t actually find me talking much about coffee in this blog). 1. Un café with Fashion at Carmen Ragosta Rue de [...]
Galliano’s Aggressive Rants Shed an Unflattering Light on Fashion Behind the Scenes To refresh your memory: “I love Hitler”, says John Galliano, creative head of fashion house, Dior. In a drink-fuelled rant caught on tape, the 50-year old fashion designer was shown sitting alone at a table of a Parisian cafe, slurring abuse at some [...]
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Apparently Keira Knightley and her co-stars improvised their way through this thirteen minute
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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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In Paris, every first Wednesday of the month at noon, without fail you can hear the eerie wail of
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