Emmanuelle Alt, Editor-in-Chief Vogue Paris
http://www.vogue.com/magazine/article/la-femme-emmanuelle-alt/
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I respect women… A nude picture shouldn’t carry a message of sexual fantasy. But I love nudity. I am super French. It’s the body, it’s sexuality, it’s part of life.
08/31/2011
14:56
14:56
Sylvie Vartan. Parisian by way of Bulgaria. La collégienne du twist.
(via thegorgeoushussy)
Tuilleries.
08/08/2011
21:46
21:46
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There is an expression in architecture that Le Corbusier used that says l’espace indicible (ineffable space). For me the view is this kind of space. You can explain why such a monument is beautiful, because it is spectacular, because it is rare; you can speak of the beauty of certain things. But the idicible space is a space where there is mystery. There is nothing incredible. It is not a great architecture. It’s kind of banal. It is beautiful but you don’t know why, it’s just this matter of space and miracle of grace.
Sophie Calle. Parisian writer, photographer and artist. Via anothermag.
07/09/2011
9:30
9:30
(Source: adieufranz, via alightthatnevergoesout)
07/07/2011
20:10
20:10
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French women are like magnets. Sometimes we attract; other times we repulse. We are alternately hot and cold. Distant and passionate. It has to do with our origins, a mix of Latin and Celtic. For me, the woman who best embodies this duality is Isabelle Adjani. She’s mysterious. She’s independent, but she loves.
Sara Forestier, star of Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life and The Names of Love, for Esquire magazine.
07/01/2011
10:52
10:52
I have to think this Princess Tam Tam advertisement illustrates some striking differences between French and American women.
I think it’s fair to call Princess Tam Tam the French Victoria’s Secret: Affordable, made-in-China lingerie that’s accessible and alluring enough to be mass-marketable.
But check out that French model. She’s laughing. She looks like she’s having fun in that bra-panty set. Yeah, she’s sexy and gorgeous, but she could just as easily be at a slumber party with her girlfriends or getting dressed on her way to work as she might be getting dolled up for a date.
This is in sharp contrast to the man-eating Victoria Secret models, who are made to look like they’re about to leap off the page and slide down a stripper pole.
(Also, no one photoshop-erased the French model’s nipples. Nice.)
There’s something about the way French women are sexy. They’re sexy for themselves. If a man happens to be paying attention, all the better. But it’d be happening either way.
06/30/2011
9:30
9:30
French Elle’s take on those Prada stripes. Chic.
06/29/2011
9:31
9:31
