French Impressions: A Paris-based author, master perfumer and expatriate literature expert, writing about style
How do you define style? The question begs. A nerve gets touched. Quickly, easily we say what it is not. …
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French Impressions: Bénédicte Mahé living as a French woman in France
Bénédicte Mahé, student and intern, was born in Rennes, in the French region of Brittany. After she completed high school …
The Challenge of Business Casual
Special guest writer Bénédicte Mahé, Paris, France, contributor to A Woman’s Paris® Those of you who read my blog know …
French Lessons: Flaunt French Chic in Breton Sailor Stripes
Coco Chanel, inspired by sailors after a visit to the French coast, refashioned the horizontal striped marinière traditionally worn by …
French Lessons: Who’s that girl down by the seaside in Deauville?
Coco Chanel, French fashion designer whose pursuit of simplicity made her an important twentieth century figure in fashion and founder …
French Lessons: Take it to the Riviera
La Côte d’Azur, the Mediterranean coastline of the southwest corner of France, attracted the artistic painters, Renoir, Matisse and Picasso, …
French Lessons: Ballet flats –– feline from the toes up
Brigitte Bardot, a classically trained ballerina, in 1956 came to Rose Repetto asking her to fashion a ballet slipper she …
French Lessons: Paris is beautiful in the rain
Paris is beautiful in the rain. Passing the time at a sidewalk café waiting for the rain storm to subside …
French Lessons: Not-so-schoolgirl French
Precocious, carefree Gilberte, aka Gigi, from Colette’s 1944 novella of the same name, sent to be groomed as a young …
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