Friday, December 05, 2008

  • FREE RUNNING
    Free running, between art and sport
    Free running, or "Yamakasi", started in the Paris suburbs over ten years ago. It helps young people adapt to their environment by making the concrete landscape more user-friendly. It is now so popular that it even has its own training academy.
  • COSMETICS
    Organic cosmetics
    In France, more and more people are becoming interested in organic cosmetics. Some stores even offer classes, teaching customers how to produce some of these natural products.
  • PARIS - HISTORY
    Street names, making sense of Paris
    Whether referring to an occupation, a powerful figure or a famous battle scene, Paris street names tell the history of France and its capital. Heroic, polemical or even prosaic, they constitute a subjective memory written on the city's walls.
  • GRAPHIC ARTS
    Aslan's pin-up girls conquer men and women alike
    Paris-based auction house Drouot is selling posters featuring French illustrator Alain Aslan's glamorous pin-up girls, attracting both male and female buyers.
  • ALCOHOL
    Absinthe back in style in Paris
    The beverage par excellence of French poets in 'La Belle Epoque', Absinthe is again hip in Parisian bars.
  • CLOTHING
    The corset fights back
    The corset is nowadays back in the windows of women's shops after many years of absence. Perhaps no other item of clothing has driven so much passion over the years.
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