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cult© Hélène Liancourt
Bon jubilé, M'am!
Je pense que la reine Elizabeth semble en forme en ce moment vu ses photos récentes, bien mieux qu’ il y a quelques années. Elle à l’air belle, un peu comme la reine Mary, sa grand-mère, mais en plus souriante. La monarchie c’est bon pour les touristes, c’est agréable car ça rapporte beaucoup d’argent mais autrement c’est totalement inutile. Les gens peuvent rêver alors c’est pas...
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cult© Jean-Paul Goude
Hello sailor...
A new Galeries Lafayette poster just appeared, created as usual by the store’s graphiste Jean Paul Goude. It features the aging bad boy Jean-Paul Gaultier, turning his naked chest into a marinière with paint. This is a joke with so many levels that to fully decode it would require a semiotics professor.
The blue-and-white marinière is a French stereotype. Part of the county’s naval uniform since the nineteent...
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cult© Pret A Manger
Paris, capital of the fast food revolution!
If you don’t see the City of Light as a fast-food mecca, you’re behind the current media buzz. Predictably, our “fast food explosion” corresponds to the average worker’s sinking pouvoir d’achat. Other reasons cited for the trend of eating sur le pouce (“on the go”) revolve around ‘Anglo-Saxon’ impositions: shorter lunches, long commutes and the need to use lunchtime f...
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cult© S. Sampson
August is the cruellest month
After the national holiday on 14th July, there are two kinds of Parisians; one is either a juilletiste (aka juillettiste) or an aoûtien. The former, less numerous, start their summer holiday during July while the latter choose August to depart elsewhere. Each plays a crucial role in shutting down the life of a city.
The legendary French holiday entitlement, les congés payés, is a 1936 legacy. The country’s first soc...
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cult© Steve Sampson
Peacocks to eye in London
The peacock has always been a powerful symbol of both the sacred (India’s national bird, it inspired the famous Peacock Throne) and the profane (some cultures think its feathers sport the “evil eye”). The Cult of Beauty, the Victoria and Albert Museum’s homage to the 19th century’s Aesthetic Movement is a decorative comeback for the bird.
But where, besides the blockbuster show, can London’...