Jeanne Koré Salvato

pilgrimage

pilgrimage

cemetery in Paris, anyone?  Many people think, oh, Père Lachaise, with its 70,000 tombs, many of which contain notable figures such as Chopin and the Doors’, Jim Morrison, to name a very few.  The name translates to Father Chair, or Father François d’ Aix de...
blablacar

blablacar

All methods of transport become precious in a French transport strike, even a non-Uber, non-Lyft ride share, called BlaBlaCar. This striking season came from the dispute over the retirement age.  President Macron wanted to elevate that age from 62 years to...
tea on the loose

tea on the loose

hen we use the term “haute couture,” we think of fashion.  But something else goes by that name. Would you believe it’s the tea shop in downtown Paris?  Mariage Frères offers what reviewers call haute couture du thé. High fashion tea. On a recent trip to...
Chanel

Chanel

hen we think of the word “fashion,” we see that it has an interesting dual meaning.  The first is to make or to fashion, from Latin facere, to make, which lingers in the French modern word faire, meaning to make or to do. “Fashion” also harks back to two old...
what is Paris without fashion?

what is Paris without fashion?

recently spent a day in Paris at two stores near the Champs Elysées, the fancy boulevard in Paris. This blog is something of a cross between visuals and investigative reporting, a cross you will not find often (probably for good reason!). HAUTE COUTUREFirst, What is...
Renzo Piano

Renzo Piano

ne of the joys of being an expat living in another country is that once you come across something, such as an architect of the Centre Pompidou, that something becomes like a stone thrown in a pond, creating ripples that give out ever widening circles. First, speaking...