Sole man #1

Starting Monday more photos from the hallucinante Christian Louboutin exhibition at Palais de la Porte Dorée.

  

Christian Louboutin: L'Exhibition-ist

Ends July 26, 2020

Brighter side

An umbrella sky, this time in pink, cheers up flaneurs and flaneuses at The Village Royal.

 

 

"Optimism," signed: Patricia Cunha

Ends May 3

Place Émile-Goudeau

A small square just around the corner from my first Montmartre apartment on rue des Trois Frères.

Tea and tajine

Steaming hot mint tea poured tableside and savory lamb tajines brighten a rainy day.

Tea Room
La Grande Mosquée
39 rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire 75005 

Adieu Monsieur Haffmann

A section of rue Berthe and rue Androuet in Montmartre has been eerily turned into a 1940's film set of Paris under the Occupation.

Adieu Monsieur Haffmann

Director: Fred Cavayé

Based on the play by Jean-Philippe Daguerre 

[filming begins today]

Low key fashion

With apprehension surrounding the coronavirus (became "Covid-19" on March 11, 2020), this season's Fashion Week was noticeably scaled back.

March newsletter

The flower vendor

 

For years this man has sat outside the same metro entrance selling flowers.

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Update July 20, 2020 - Eyes without a face:

  Months later, the same man, wearing a mask