Tag Archives: French

Couture printemps 2012: des pantalons skinny

Lee Hye Jung struts in a skinny pant suit for Maxime Simoens.

Couture Printemps 2012: sorbet framboise

Maria Kashleva serves Amy Winehouse (I-Dream-of-Jeannie-edition) in raspberry sorbet for Jean Paul Gaultier.

Le meilleur de l’automne 2011 Couture

We miss you Stella!  How nice to see you walking for Chanel.

boulangerie baguettes

In the postcarb gluten-free era, bread has almost become a dirty word, but in France bread is always fashionable.  Nothing compares to a baguette from the boulangerie – until now. La Petit Français Baguettes go from freezer to the oven after a brief thaw.  Imported from France and incomparable to any other product available, these baguettes most closely resemble the warm and comforting original.

“If thou tastest a crust of bread,

thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.”

Robert Browning

Sunday with Lea Seydoux

HIGHBROW SMUT

Need a little tickle?  Please try the award winning Story of O, a 1954 bondage, submission, and domination literary classic written by Anne Desclos under the pseudonym Pauline Réage.

Desclos was inspired by her lover’s challenge that women couldn’t write like the Marquis de Sade.  Well she sure shut him the fuck up.  It’s irrelevant whether BDSM is your thing or not, Story of O is easily one of the most influential and cannibalized books of the last hundred years — an absolute must read.