France is tittering over an advertising blooper committed by one of its largest and most trusted megabrands. In an online ad for kids’ T-shirts posted on the Le Redoute site last week, a nude man appears in the background of a photo of four kids frolicking on the beach. Accident? Or intentional ploy for free [...]
I’m a bit obsessed by Pinterest, a social media tool for creating and sharing mood boards or any kind of collection of images. Here’s “Des Mecs,” my compendium of beautiful French men.
The ads on the side of the Conciergerie are becoming just plain cruel. Look at the nonsense that’s up there now. Really, Conciergerie? Isn’t that kinda mean, featuring a painting of Marie Antoinette without a face, and a title of “Ghost Save the Queen” on the side of the building where she was held prisoner [...]
Arnaud Lagardère, heir to one of France’s largest and most powerful industrial empires, likes a pretty girl. No would would care except that, according to The Economist, the 49-year-old has been playing hooky from board meetings. Now this wouldn’t matter either, if Lagardère were a little family-owned business. But, sadly, it is not. It is a [...]
I was asked to assist Robert & Kathleen Trenske in sourcing locations and vendors for a 2-day Paris photography seminar and photo session. The images from that romantic Parisian rooftop wedding were featured on Style Me Pretty a while back, but the photos from the Amélie Poulain-inspired Montmartre photo session were just posted on Robert and Kathleen’s blog [...]
In general in the US food critics for publications such as the New York Times or New York magazine will not judge a restaurant until they and their minions (in the case of the NYT) go several times, because as one explained to me, “It’s only fair to judge a place on its entire menu, [...]
The front of the card reads: “24 views of the future. Number 12. The express train of the 21st century, a completely streamlined locomotive.” On the back of the card, one word jumped out from the others. Byrrh was new to us. Finding out about it was the start of a voyage of discovery. At [...]
In a stroke of clever marketing, the Rock en Seine music festival has transformed the Duroc metro station on the #10 line to the Durock station. Vibrant posters with names of the musical groups from this year’s festival including Herman Dune, Arctic Monkeys, My Chemical Romance, The Wombats, Coco Rosie, The Kills, Etienne De Crécy, [...]
It was a small boy who sent my eye in its direction. With a large smile on his face, he was pulling his mum’s sleeve and pointing to a spot over my shoulder. I turned round to see what he was looking at, and saw what -to me – is a new breed of advertising, [...]
The Conciergerie is one of my favorite buildings in Paris, and I was horrified to see it covered last Thursday in advertising – and for Apple, no less. Most of the time when they are redoing building facades here, they will put up scaffolding covered in a photo of the building, so you at least [...]
