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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 [...]
Pssst! Clubbing is dead. Dead like disco. That’s right, I said it. As a matter of fact, I began writing this post on my iPhone notepad in the middle of a Miami nightclub on New Years weekend as I sat observing the scene with recurring facial expressions that indicated I might have smelled something really really bad. [...]
The weekend is fast approaching, we’re looking forward to letting our hair down, maybe go
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Image via here I‘ve been getting a few readers writing in to me lately for advice on Paris
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Over the weekend le boyfriend threw a house-warming party. I neatly arranged saucisson sec,
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Robert Doisneau photographed “The Voluptuous Wanda” in 1953 at a street fair being held
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When most of us think of a trailer, what often comes to mind is … well, trash! But when I
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