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A fashion I do not understand. The brand Matiere fecales distinguished itself last season too, with its peculiar aesthetic and the delighted wife of Rick Owens in the front row. As for the name, put it through a translator yourselves; my hand refuses to translate it here.
Architecture · Art · Museums · Paris
Picasso Museum in Paris Announces Major Redevelopment by 2030. The Picasso Museum in Paris, which holds the largest collection of the artist's work in the world, with more than 5,000 works and 200,000 archival items, is preparing for a major redevelopment. The plans include a new
Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Paris
The restored bells of Notre-Dame de Paris have a good many unusual and interesting details attached to them. The great bell Emmanuel, for instance, is a witness to history: cast in 1681, it is the only one of the large bells to have survived the French Revolution. Napoleon heard
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Against a backdrop of a 16.5% decline in global sales, the smallest fall was recorded in the United States, where sales totalled 2.2 billion dollars, only 1% lower than in the same period of 2024. China comes second after the United States, where sales fell by 26% compared
Museums · Observations · Heritage · Science · Paris
Shocked to Learn That Several Gold Nuggets Were Stolen Last Week from a Paris Mineralogy Gallery. The theft took place in the early hours of 17 September. The perpetrators entered the hall of mineralogy and geology at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris by disabling the security system
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The work in question is a painting entitled "Bust of a Woman in a Flowered Hat", which depicts Dora Maar, the artist's muse and lover. Until now this portrait was known to specialists and admirers of the Spanish painter's work only from black-and-
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Issue of Illustrated Russia (Illyustrirovannaya Rossiya) for 1 May 1926
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As promised, I return to my report on this season's fashion exhibitions in Paris. The large retrospective of the work of Paul Poiret will interest not only lovers of the history of costume, but indeed anyone enthralled by fashion and style. The exhibition at the Musée des Arts
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Crosses vanish from Montmartre on Paris Olympics posters, crosses are removed from the badges of European football clubs, and in Spain a proposal has been made to pull down the monumental cross above the Valley of the Fallen. In Western Europe the wave of “de-crossing”, fuelled by embittered anticlericalism,
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…gleaming with the whiteness of her shoulders, the glossiness of her hair and diamonds, she passed between the men who stood aside <...> granting each the right to admire the beauty of her figure, her full shoulders, her bosom and back, very bare according to the fashion of the
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Tomorrow brings our customary roundup of new museum and gallery exhibitions in Moscow, but today I suggest you save a route through the fashion exhibitions now running in Paris. 📌 Paul Poiret, la mode est une fête. Musée des Arts Décoratifs (MAD) - until 11 January 2026. A major retrospective of a