Good news for penny-pinching vintage ad lovers: I’ve stumbled upon a treasure trove of French ads from all decades of the 20th century. From fashion prints to old Vogue and La Vie Parisienne covers to auto and lingerie ads, HPrints has everything your vintage-loving heart desires. You can find old campaigns for luxury brands like Givenchy, Balenciaga, [...]
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.
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 [...]
Many of you may remember Katia and Kylie Mac’s fabulous K&K Podcast. After 491 hilarious episodes, Kylie Mac returned to the US to pursue new adventures, and sadly, the podcast came to an end. But now Katia is back with a new show, The France Project, “a podcast exploring the je ne sais quoi about life in [...]
More than e-mail, less than letters, postcards are a perfect way to let loved ones back home know you’re thinking about them during your travels. I can’t decide which I like better: carefully crafting a succinct, thoughtful message to send, or receiving someone else’s sentiments in my mailbox. On your Paris travels, be sure to pick [...]
What is it about public transportation that makes otherwise civilized individuals behave badly? Few would consider commuting a pleasant experience but faulting the offensive stench in the metro or cramped, stroller-packed buses as cause for complete disregard for others is only acceptable to a point. All passengers are in the same, stinky boat yet not [...]
I’m a bit of an isolationist when it comes to pop culture reporting in France; too many magazines cover Anglo musicians, artists, and stars to the exclusion of French ones. Have you ever noticed how French people think their homegrown stars are somehow less worthy than British or American ones? Anyway, that’s why I’m eager [...]
Sure, you could always watch the Games on your TV or computer at home, but part of the magic of the Olympics is the sense of unification it brings – everyone in the whole world is a part of this event. It’s best experienced with other people to cheer with, so Hôtel de Ville is broadcasting the [...]
These posters have been appearing all over town, encouraging people to take the Eurostar to the Olympics. And showing the real favorite British sports of pool and darts. Imagine all the indignant responses if anyone tried to put these up in the U.S.! But the French never went through a Puritan period. >more
1. Apparently my computer has cookies and the information highway has read my beads, because as soon as I am in France, ads such as this start appearing. 2. You would think that the French, long stereotyped as the most sophisticated lovers, would have come up with a term for “cougars” before Americans. Just sayin.’
