Photo of the Week
A chic cyclist negotiates a Paris crossroads on a rainy winter evening. Photo: Eric Tenin of Paris Daily Photo.
Wednesday, 25 January 2012 11:13
Paris Update Fashion Flash
BAD BOYS PAST AND PRESENT
No traditional dark suits for German designer Bernhard Willhelm. Photo: Ford Leland
A nostalgic whiff of the 1930s permeated the 2012-13 Paris men’s fashion shows last week. Designer Kim Jones at Louis Vuitton best showed off this trend, leading the fashion pack down memory lane. The slick smooth hair, finely tailored suits in noble materials and refined colors – black, charcoal and electric navy-blue – evoked the glamorous allure of Hollywood in its heyday, when Clark Gable and Gary Cooper were kings of the silver screen.
While classy luxury is reassuring in these turbulent times, is there nothing new under the male fashion sun? No need to despair. Creativity and irreverent excitement can be found in the collections of such designers as the man from Antwerp, Walter Van Beirendonck, and the German designer Bernhard Willhelm. Madeleine Czigler
Wednesday, 18 January 2012 18:45
Paris Update Flash News
LE HUFF POST
The homepage of the French edition of The Huffington Post may look U.S.-centric, but the front-page story changed later in the day to French unemployment.
Le Huffington Post, the French-language version of the The HuffPo, went online Monday with a coup that was sure to make the French media stand up and pay attention: last week, it was announced that journalist Anne Sinclair, wife of former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was to be its editorial director. The press conference on Monday, attended by Arianna Huffington and Sinclair and held on the premises of Le Monde, the site’s French partner, was overflowing with photographers and journalists of every stripe. DSK’s name came up in a question to Sinclair about how impartial she could be about certain stories (her husband is due to be questioned in relation to an investigation of a prostitution ring in Lille, France, and the couple is suing a number of French media outlets for their coverage of the story). She promised that the site’s coverage would be the same for all stories. Le Huffington Post offers some original reporting and blogs in French, translations from its other national versions and links to outside sites. Heidi Ellison
Paris Update This Week's Events
For full details about an event, click on its name to visit the official Web site (in English when available).
Dîner de la Mode contre le Sida
"Club Sandwich Soirée" AIDS benefit. Admission: €25. 10 raffle tickets: €300, Pavillon d’Armenonville, Jan. 26
Ice Skating Rinks
Hôtel de Ville, Through March 4. Pine-tree-lined ice trail on the Champs-Elysées, through Jan. 1. Eiffel Tower, through Feb. 1.
Journées Internationales du Film sur l'Art
Screenings of recent films on art, roundtables with filmmakers and more, Auditorium du Louvre, Paris, Jan. 25-29.
London Calling
> Festival of British films, Forum des Images, Paris, through Feb. 29
My French Film Festival
> Online festival of French films by young directors. Viewers can vote for favorites. Through Feb. 1.
Robert Altman Film Festival
> Cinémathèque Française, Paris, through March 11.
Soldes
> Retail sales in Paris: through Feb. 14
Steven Spielberg Film Festival
> The entire œuvre, Cinémathèque Française, Paris, through March 3.
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Le Pantruche
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Restaurants
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Published on Tuesday, 24 January 2012 20:44
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Written by Heidi Ellison
Constant Excellence Among
Young Paris Chefs
Le Pantruche's updated bistro decor.
A new wave of young chefs is creating a renaissance on the Parisian dining scene, some 15-20 years after the first wave of bistronome chefs – Yves Camdeborde,
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What They Don't Teach You in French Class, Part II: To Bise or not to Bise
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Hot Topics
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Published on Monday, 23 January 2012 18:59
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Written by David Jaggard
How to Get (Really)
Familiar with the French
Incoming! A cheek’s-eye view of France.
France. Grown men kissing other men. What’s up with that? This, or words to that effect, was what I said to myself as a child back in the Midwest when I first
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L'Amour Dure Trois Ans
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Film
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Published on Tuesday, 24 January 2012 20:05
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Written by Heidi Ellison
Love vs. Cynicism in
Woody-Allenesque Film
Gaspard Proust as Marc Marronnier and Louise Bourgoin as his lady love, Alice, in L’Amour Dure Trois Ans.
For those who are unfamiliar with Frédéric Beigbeder, a few words of explanation are in order. He first became known in his early 20s as a sort of militant
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Finnegans Wake
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Onstage
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Published on Tuesday, 24 January 2012 20:44
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Written by Pierre Tran
From Swerve of
Shore to Bend of Bay
Sharif Andoura in Finnegan’s Wake at Paris’s Théâtre de l’Aquarium. Photo: Hervé Bellamy.
Let the record show that I was somewhat worried about going to see James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake – not the easiest read even in English – translated into
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