Paris Postcard
Tagwalk Takes on the Hemline Index
The cerulean sleeve and the smoky eye have long been the province of whim, but Alexandra Van Houtte (the catwalk’s Bill James) is changing all that with fashion-data analysis.
Bartender, There’s a Beer in My Wine
Paris has been blanketed by posters for vière, a mix of vin and bière drunk from a wineglass, whose name, its creators say, started out as a joke.
Walking Paris’s Garbage-Strewn Streets
With France’s public trash collectors joining a general strike, the city has been divided in two: the Trashes and the Trash-Nots.
Life After “Call My Agent!”
Fanny Herrero, a rare French showrunneuse, talks “Standing Up,” her Netflix follow-up show about striving standup comedians in Paris. “Emily in Paris” it’s not.
Translating the French Election for the Freedom-Fry Audience
Gilles Paris references “Emily in Paris” and considers Maureen Dowd an inspiration for his daily dispatches in Le Monde’s first-ever English-language column, aimed at American readers.
A Son Sends Josephine Baker to the Panthéon
Brian Bouillon-Baker—one of the twelve children of the St. Louis-born entertainer, French Resistance fighter, and destroyer of stereotypes—visits France’s hall of “great men” for the induction of his Maman, the first woman of color to be so honored.
Camille Cottin Always Feels Like a Beginner
The French actress, known for “Call My Agent!,” “Killing Eve,” and “Connasse,” co-habits with “fucking Matt Damon” in the Trump-inflected Cannes hit “Stillwater.”
A Parisian Writes Her Revenge
Vanessa Springora was fourteen when the distinguished writer Gabriel Matzneff took her as his mistress. Decades later, she has published “Consent,” a memoir about his “triple predation—sexual, literary, and psychic.”
Stop Doomscrolling and Play a Board Game About Class Warfare
The creators of Kapital!, a hit French board game about social class, attribute its success to “being perfectly in tune with the political moment.”
The Lagerfeld Economy
He may have been a monster boss, but the late Chanel designer was a one-man stimulus package for a handful of Paris shops.