It is the law in France that no street, square, or building may be named after a living person. Mrs, Thatcher having passed away, a UMP – Union pour un Movement Populaire – councillor, Jérôme Dubus, motioned at a Paris municipal meeting that a street or square in Paris should be named after her: Rue or Avenue [...]

Pierre Sang Boyer (pictured center), one of the charmismatic stars of French culinary TV show “Top Chef,” has opened an eponymous restaurant in the 11th arrondissement. The young chef, who was a semi-finalist in the 2011 edition of the TV show, opened Restaurant Pierre Sang on the buzzing, bar-lined rue Oberkampf last year. The no-reservation [...]

It’s called Fête des Pets…or Fart Party.

The Paris Blog joined Twitter yesterday. Here’s our first follower. I died. Came back from the dead. Died again. OK, so it’s not the REAL Alain Delon. It was fun while it lasted.

Last Friday, I attended my first Parisian movie premiere. There was no red carpet, although we were just off the Champs Elysées. Having been to movie premieres in New York and Los Angeles, I was wondering how this experience would match up. The film was The American Tetralogy by Phillipe Terrier-Herman. It stars Andy Gillet. [...]

There are not a lot of private houses in Paris. Let alone private houses with a direct view of the river and the Eiffel Tower. So 34, avenue New York, home of the Mona Bismarck American Center for Art and Culture, is already something out of the ordinary. We went there last December to see an [...]

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy’s stupidity has reached a level that even I have never fathomed. (And that’s saying a lot considering my country birthed such idiots as the screechy Sarah Palin, the gay-man-marrying Michelle Bachman, and general vagina-hating-rape-loving senators of the Republican Party.) At first glance, this quote from Vogue (which C B-S “guest edited”) sounds like [...]

Recently I was invited to join a small panel of bloggers for a presentation of the Serge Lutens make-up line and what he calls the “nécessaire de beauté”. Beauty essentials. I love the Serge Lutens boutique at Palais Royal and have purchased and tested several of his perfumes. I love his work for its originality, [...]

Sorry, but this dude was so fabulously demented.

Now in its fifth fashionable year, A Shaded View on Fashion Film Festival is still the world’s first and foremost film festival dedicated to fashion, style and beauty. It takes place NOvember 9 – 11 at the Pompidou Center. Diane Pernet, the founder of the festival, has put together some of the top designers, brands, and celebs [...]