The two-bedroom penthouse comes with sweeping views of the Eiffel Tower and just about every other monument across the Paris skyline. The rent, at 600 euros a month, is a steal. Marine Vallery-Radot, 51, the apartment’s tenant, said she cried when she got the call last summer that hers was among 253 lower-income families chosen […]
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In Paris, the Olympics Clean Up Their Act
How do you produce a global sporting event, with millions of people swooping down on one city, in the age of global warming? That is the test for the Paris Olympics this summer. The organizers say they’re putting the games on a climate diet. These Olympics, they say, will generate no more than half the […]
Read MoreDominique Blanc, at 67, Is in Her Prime
In 2003, three decades into her career, Dominique Blanc experienced every actor’s worst nightmare: The phone stopped ringing. Approaching 50, she was one of France’s most celebrated performers, fresh off an acclaimed stage run in a classic tragedy, Jean Racine’s “Phèdre.” But the subsequent, yearslong lack of offers “deeply unsettled me,” Blanc said in a […]
Read MoreZelensky Heads to Berlin and Paris to Shore Up Support as U.S. Wavers
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine is making a whirlwind trip through Berlin and Paris on Friday in a bid to shore up European backing at a critical moment for his country’s fight against Russia, with United States support wavering and Ukraine desperately in need of more arms. Mr. Zelensky is expected to sign security agreements […]
Read MoreWhy So Many People Can’t Get That Galliano Show Out of Their Heads
There is a certain irony to the fact that of all the shows that took place during couture last week, the one designed to be the most off-line — the one conceived as an in-person experience rather than as a simple catwalk — is the one that ended up going the most viral. The one […]
Read MoreU.S. Weighs Retaliation After Strike in Jordan, and Farmers Lay ‘Siege’ to Paris
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Read MoreFrench Farmers Block Roads Around Paris in Growing Standoff
Irate farmers deployed tractors to block the main roads in and out of Paris on Monday in an intensifying standoff that has left the capital girding for disruptions and become the first major test for France’s newly appointed prime minister, Gabriel Attal. Last week Mr. Attal rushed to farming regions in the south of France […]
Read MoreProtesters at the Louvre Hurl Soup at the Mona Lisa
Two protesters from an environmental group hurled pumpkin-colored soup on the Mona Lisa at the Louvre museum in Paris on Sunday, splashing the bulletproof glass that protects the most famous painting in the world, but not apparently damaging the work itself. As the customary crowd around the 16th-century painting by Leonardo da Vinci gasped in […]
Read MoreMaison Margiela, Fendi and Valentino at the Paris Couture
The night of the wolf moon — the first full moon of the new year — also happened to be the last night of the couture, when John Galliano recreated a decaying Paris nightclub in the vaulted caverns beneath Paris’s Pont Alexandre III bridge across the Seine. Crepe paper streamers the color of Madeira wine […]
Read MoreRihanna, Kylie Jenner, Zendaya and More Gallivant in Paris at Couture
Haute couture is a celebration of artisanship — and one-upmanship — as the world’s top fashion houses gather in Paris to compete with one another and show off new designs. So, too, with the celebrities and socialites on the front row, who also have something to sell — movies, music, reality television, cosmetics. The season […]
Read MoreIris Van Herpen’s Exhibition Is a Dazzling Couture Show
It is possible that the most dazzling couture show in Paris this week is not actually taking place on a runway at all, but in an entirely different sort of setting. Possible that said couture show is not an invitation-only affair with gold ballroom chairs and the latest celebrity du jour, but rather one open […]
Read MoreKrispy Kreme Opens in France, the Latest in a U.S. Fast Food Invasion
As dawn broke in central Paris on Wednesday, a throng of 500 people, mostly French, stood with uncharacteristic patience in a snaking line, intent on buying a decidedly un-French confection: an American doughnut. A hot, glazed Krispy Kreme doughnut, to be exact. It was the grand opening of the chain in France, and patrons — […]
Read MoreParis Knife Attack Leaves One Dead and Others Injured
A German tourist was killed and several other people injured in central Paris late Saturday after a man attacked them with a knife and a hammer, the French authorities said. The case stirred fears of renewed Islamist terror attacks in a nation already on edge. A suspect was arrested nearby shortly after the assault. The […]
Read MoreNotre-Dame’s Treasures, Untouched by the Fire, On View in Paris
The newly renovated Notre-Dame isn’t scheduled to reopen to the public until Dec. 8, 2024, but some of the cathedral’s oldest treasures — survivors of revolutions, regime change and disasters — are now on display at the Louvre. And, although they had been inside the cathedral for centuries, the existence of some of these pieces […]
Read MoreParis’s Newest Hotels Embrace Color and Quirk
Until recently, few Parisian hotels dared to distract from the classic aesthetics of the city itself. The décor of its gilded palace hotels, single-minded embassies of French heritage, was, largely, fussy and excessively impersonal, as if a misplaced streak of color could break the city’s spell. Today the capital is finally overcoming its self-seriousness, thanks […]
Read MoreRothko, in Pain and Glory
You may recognize Mark Rothko’s paintings, even if you can’t recall the artist’s name: tall canvases of bold, floating blocks of color. Their titles, such as “No. 13,” “Red on Maroon,” even “Untitled,” are just as abstract as the paintings themselves. The Fondation Louis Vuitton art museum in Paris will host 115 of Rothko’s works […]
Read MoreThe Marie Laurencin Exhibition Making the Case for Art Without Men
“One issue that Laurencin did have with being taken seriously by, say, feminist art historians in the ’90s is that she was so feminine,” she said. “They just couldn’t get it.” After Laurencin’s death, her work fell into an especially peculiar trap: It was dismissed for its femininity and criticized for its supposed lack of […]
Read MoreLouvre and Versailles Emptied as France Raises Guard After Stabbing
Thousands of troops were being deployed to guard sensitive locations across France, and the Louvre Museum and the Palace of Versailles were evacuated in separate security alerts, as the country remained on edge on Saturday after the killing of a schoolteacher in a stabbing attack that the authorities described as an act of Islamist terrorism. […]
Read MoreIn Paris, Bedbugs and Fear of Bedbugs
The owners were convinced they had been infested by bedbugs again. They stripped their house of every piece of clothing, every last picture frame, every book and children’s toy where a bedbug might hide and stuffed it all inside garbage bags to be stored outside, in a tent in their back yard in a village […]
Read MoreIn France, Reports of Bedbugs Fuel Anxiety Ahead of 2024 Olympics
In France’s lower house of Parliament, a top opposition lawmaker held up a small vial for all her colleagues to see. Its contents, she warned in a fiery speech this week, were “spreading despair” around the country. “Must we wait for your office to be infested before you finally react?” the lawmaker, Mathilde Panot, told […]
Read MoreCarine Roitfeld Is Not Ready to Retire
When you look back on the last 10 years, what makes you proud? When I left French Vogue, it was like giving back a royal crown. It’s a huge title, everyone loved you and wanted your approval. And then I left, and then there was no team, no secretary, no automatic audience. Certain photographers were […]
Read MoreThe Unspeakably Sad Reminder of the ‘Other Paris’
There was no TV in the waiting area, no magazines, and eventually Ava’s phone began to die, cutting off her line of communication to me, so she was forced to read whatever pamphlets, signs, and labels were in English, and, finally, to pay attention to the people around her. A little girl who’d gotten stitches […]
Read MoreLVMH’s Bernard Arnault Is the King of Luxury, but Who Is Next to the Throne?
One afternoon in July, not long after being named the wealthiest man on the planet by Forbes, Bernard Arnault, the head of the LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton luxury goods empire, took his place on a stage with a view of the Eiffel Tower before a packed crowd of French dignitaries and reporters. In the […]
Read MoreMarc Bohan, Head Designer for Dior for Three Decades, Dies at 97
Marc Bohan, the longest-serving creative director at Christian Dior, who spent nearly 30 years spinning out classically attuned looks with a touch of whimsy that, however resplendent, were meant to be worn, not gazed at on mannequins or in fashion magazines, died on Wednesday in Châtillon-sur-Seine, France. He was 97. His death was confirmed in […]
Read MoreParis Turns ‘Little Belt’ of Train Tracks Into Green Spaces
Across the street from a block of dense office buildings in western Paris, Bernard Sokler was surrounded by trees, weeds and crickets, as he tended to a bush of purple wildflowers in a largely forgotten strip of land. Mr. Sokler, 60, and his team look after the greenery around a set of disused train tracks […]
Read MoreManet’s ‘Olympia,’ the 19th Century’s Most Scandalous Painting, Comes to New York
“A colossal ineptitude,” one enraged critic called it. “Her face is stupid,” another wrote. The papers declared it “shapeless,” “putrefied,” “incomprehensible.” They said it “recalls the horror of the morgue.” And when the Parisian crowds rolled into the Salon of 1865, they too went berserk in front of Édouard Manet’s painting of a courtesan, her […]
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