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A look at the happenings acrosss the Atlantic...
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The iconic red windmill blades atop the famous Moulin Rouge inexplicably collapsed around 2am local time on Thursday. No one was injured and repairs are underway to the beloved cabaret.
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The Louvre ponders giving the ever-popular "Mona Lisa" a room of her own to give the ~20,000 people per day who attempt to see her a better experience.
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French baker Xavier Netry has won the annual "Grand Prix de la baguette" competition, beating out 172 others. The 11th arrondissement bakery has won 4000€ and a 1-year supply baguette contract with the Elysée Palace. Visit Boulangerie Utopie at 20 rue Jean Pierre Timbaud in Paris to try one for yourself...
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10 French Fashion Clichés: Do Parisians Actually Wear Them?
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Are all these French fashion clichés really just fake tropes from decades past? Is there any truth to them, even today?
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My Roger Vivier Flower Strass Buckle Clutch Bag
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My favorite evening bag to take out at night...
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A Suitable French Evening Shoe Collection
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For all types of nighttime excursions...
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A French collector may have unknowingly bought a Raphael painting for just $37,000
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The small Provençal town of Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume saw a queue of visitors this past week, lined up to see a portrait of Mary Magdalene controversially attributed to the painter Raphael.
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A collector purchased the small 12x18" painting from a gallery in London and then enlisted Annalisa Di Maria, a UNESCO-affiliated scholar in Renaissance art and Florentine Neoplatonism, who authenticated the painting as the work of Raphael.
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Many critics disagreed including a former Italian secretary of culture and art historian Vittorio Sgarbi, who described the story as nothing more than a "journalistic scoop."
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Nevertheless, locals in the small town paid 3€ to view the work, hung in the Basilica where Mary Magdalene was supposedly buried in the 13th century after bringing Christianity to Marseille.
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Play the dazzling new trailer for "Becoming Karl Lagerfeld," a Hulu series chronicling the rise of the German fashion designer through the 1970s before reaching the helm of Chanel, set to release on June 7 in the US.
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"An incredible history emerged—one of an eclectic group of American women drawn to Paris and threaded together by a fervor to grasp something bigger. Through portraiture spanning mediums—less a creative liberty and more a desire for true representation across socioeconomic class—by a myriad of artists, ranging from Pablo Picasso to Tsuguharu Foujita, the exhibition paints a picture of a vibrant and nuanced network of women keen to engage in the pursuit of the modernist culture Paris so valued."
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Carel has been my go-to everyday French shoe brand for years...
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A relaxed crochet-knit dress that reminds me of those worn by Jane Birkin...
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A cream jacket with striped edges and gold buttons
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The Fashion Influencers of the French Revolution
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"The publication [the Journal des Dames et des Modes, a pre-Vogue, pre-Harper’s Bazaar magazine that launched in Paris in 1797] documented a brief but crucial period in which clothing, especially women’s clothing, became an unprecedented force of cultural and social change.
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Corsets, heavy wigs and other restrictive sartorial norms were tossed off to make way for flowing, transparent dresses, handbags as statement pieces and toucan feathers sewn into white crepe dresses — a look that Joséphine Bonaparte, future empress of France, wore to a ball."
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–Dina Gachman for The New York Times
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