10 h. ago No more French ‘fashion police’: Emily in Paris costume designer relishes move to Rome

Costume designer Marylin Fitoussi says Italy understands the show’s wardrobe is ‘about breaking rules and having fun’Netflix’s famously frothy romcom Emily in Paris has long divided critics and Parisians alike, but as it returns for its fifth season it seems to have won a presidential seal of approval. On Monday, Emmanuel Macron named the series’ creator, Darren Star (best known for Sex and The City), a knight of the legion of honour for boosting France’s cultural prominence and soft power through the show’s global success.It is a long way from the initial backlash, which partly centred on the brash wardrobe of Emily Cooper, the American in Paris played by Lily Collins. Brightly coloured, print-heavy and over the top, the outre outfits were received as a personal affront by many Parisians, who even objected to her embrace of archetypal French chic. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago ‘Lunch could last all day – and night’: inside Coco Chanel’s sun

The French fashion designer’s lavish Mediterranean villa was frequented by everyone from Dalí to Garbo to Stravinsky to Churchill. It has now been lovingly restored – with a thrillingly bolstered libraryIt is the place where Salvador Dalí painted The Enigma of Hitler, a haunting landscape featuring a giant telephone receiver that seems to be crying a tear over a cutout picture of the Fuhrer. Conceived in 1939, the work seems to anticipate war. It is also the place where Winston Churchill penned parts of his multi-volume A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, and painted its dappled-light view. Somerset Maugham would visit, too, as well as novelist Colette, composer Igor Stravinsky and playwright Jean Cocteau, partaking in lunches that lasted all day and night, with debates and discussions around artistic ideas.This place is La Pausa: the Mediterranean villa in the hills of Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, once owned by husband-and-wife writing duo Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Murie...

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8 d. ago French fashion stylist reveals how to actually look like you’re from Paris

Marie-Anne Lecoeur, who has been dubbed ‘The French Chic Expert’, explains how to really dress like a Parisian.

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2 w. ago Top fashion designer, 37, knocked off bike and killed by car while on cycling holiday in UK

TRIBUTES have poured in for a top French fashion designer who was knocked off her bike and killed, an inquest heard. Laure Severac was on a cycling holiday in Wales when tragedy struck on August 17, 2023. The 37-year-old was a guest professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, in Antwerp, and highly respected...

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3 w. ago Why the ROYALS might have to rethink their love affair with Dior after Jonathan Anderson's catwalk showed us a 'deconstructed Dior'

After nine years under the under the direction of Maria Grazia Chiuri, the iconic French fashion house Christian Dior has become the de facto playbook for the world's leading consorts

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4 w. ago Beaujolais Day gone wild: Swansea adopts France's revered tradition and makes it their own...

In France , Beaujolais Nouveau Day is a reverent, almost ritualistic celebration of one of the country's best known varieties of wine. And then there's Swansea.

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