Author Simon Kuper speaks on the reality of life in Paris
Paris is a city of huge positives but also negatives. That's the view of the author of a new book on what he calls an "Impossible City". Simon Kuper, a journalist for…
Rat race: rodents become talking point of Paris polls
Above the sewers in which they dwell, rats have become the focal point of Paris's municipal campaigns, with incumbent mayor Anne Hidalgo putting forward new generation bins supposed to deprive them of…
From New York to Paris: Tracing black identities
To what extent is someone's racial identity informed by context? And how does changing that context - by, say, moving from New York to Paris as a black woman - alter the…
Thousands of asylum seekers waiting in streets, makeshift camps around Paris
Thousands of asylum seekers waiting in streets, makeshift camps around Paris…
Parisians and tourists slide into 2020 on Paris’s Grand Palais ice rink
"It's an incredible feeling of joy": on the first day of 2020, visitors from Paris and all around the world ice skate on the world's largest indoor ice rink in Paris's Grand…
Luxury retail therapy: A French recipe for success
This week, we're exploring some of Paris's department stores or "Grands Magasins". These monuments to shopping have been in business since the mid-to-late 18th century and are internationally renowned. But the entire shopping experience is the result…
‘Black Friday’ invades Paris
Hardly anyone celebrates Thanksgiving in France yet it's retail adjunct, Black Friday, is omnipresent in retail around the French capital. Also, Telsa's armored vehicle demonstration fail... was it intended to fail in…
‘Yesterday is today’s memory’: African art comes to Paris
'Yesterday is today's memory': African art comes to Paris…
Catwalk invader crashes Chanel show
A woman jumped on stage to join models at the Chanel show at Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday in Paris's Grand Palais.…
Kampala Fashion Week takes Ugandan capital by storm
Kampala Fashion Week hosts local and regional designers who are increasingly raising the bar in a bid to rival fashion weeks in New York and Paris.…
A culture of collecting: The hidden museums of Paris
A culture of collecting: The hidden museums of Paris…